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- From: mslade@netcom.com (Michael Slade)
- Subject: Re: 2 bit TIFF -> Bezier ??
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 21:41:27 GMT
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- jgg@proforma.com (J. G. Gregory) writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug11.215852.8477@nmsu.edu> rscott@spock.NMSU.Edu (Joseph Good)
- >writes:
- >>
- >>is there a program out there that can transform a Black and White TIFF image
- >>into a Bezier image? I've converted it into EPS, but it just did the same old
- >>bitmap (as far as I know). I'm wanting to have it "get rid of the edges" so
- >to
- >>speak... smooth things out.
- >>
-
- >Yes. Its called Adobe Illustrator. (Some other programs can to do it as well,
- >but Illustrator is the only one I know of for the NeXT.) The conversion you
- >want is non-trivial, and is best used in a interactive editing type enviroment,
- >where you can "fix up" the computers best guesses at edge detection.
-
- >--J Gregory
- Adobe also has a great app on PC & Mac (I wish they'd port to NeXT) called
- Streamline. It is a more advanced version of the autotracing available
- in Illustrator.
- -- Michael Slade, Datavision
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