Re: "bitmap" to outline postscript

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

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On 20 Oct 1998, Jens Ritter wrote:

> Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Ted Harding) writes:
> 
> > Basically: given, e.g., the bit pattern
> > 
> >    000
> >   0   0
> >  00   00
> >  00   00
> >   0   0
> >    000
> > 
> > is there a program which would take this pattern and produce an
> > economical PostScript code which would operate by drawing two ellipses as
> > smooth curves and filling the space between them?
> 
> Corel Draw comes with a utility capable of converting bitmaps to
> vector format --- but it does not always produce smooth curves.
> 
> And it is not available for linux.
> 
> Jens
> 
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George Bonser

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