Re: "bitmap" to outline postscript

[Jens Ritter <jens@weh.rwth-aachen.de>]

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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