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- Tracer v1.3
- This program is ShareWare
- Please send $25 to
- Chris Osborn
- 2883 Redwood Rd.
- Napa, CA 94558
-
- I wrote this because I don't have anything on the NeXT to do any form
- of auto tracing, and the programs I had used on other machines that
- did it, did a HORRID job of it. They generally just followed bitmaps
- pixel for pixel, and wouldn't smooth it out, and they would NEVER do
- any filling. That's fine for simple images, but I don't want to trace
- simple images. It would take months for me to fill it manually.
-
- Well, the filling works Ok, not as good as I'd like it, it fails
- occasionally on Line-Art, and always on grayscale images (But, why
- were you tracing grayscale anyway?). Also, images with alpha won't
- trace.
-
- There are, as always, lots of bugs that probably need to be fixed.
-
- Also, there is no STOP button after you've started tracing, you just
- have to suffer.
-
- New for 1.3:
-
- X Saving EPS files in an Adobe Illustrator compatible format, so they can be edited.
- X Supports filter services, to allow loading of other bitmap formats for tracing.
-
- Features I might add, if I get enought response (and enough people register):
-
- X A STOP button.
- X Fixing it to provide a service. Mostly so I can train these people not to save enormous bitmaps.
- X Being able to zoom in and out.
-
- Any bugs, comments, shareware fees, feel free to mail them to me.
-
- Chris Osborn
- fozztexx%nvcc.uucp@groucho.sonoma.edu
- 2883 Redwood Rd.
- Napa, CA 94558
-