[thelist] OT: My mistake (Was Rasterizing jpg Image)

Aredridel aredridel at nbtsc.org
Tue Jul 29 19:44:40 CDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 17:49, John Handelaar wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
> > [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Steve Abaffy
> > Sent: 30 July 2003 00:26
> > To: Java
> > Subject: [thelist] OT: My mistake (Was Rasterizing jpg Image)
> >
> > My mistake, I misread the email. He said it would cost $15.00 to vectorize
> > the image, so the question is how does one vectorize the jpg image?
> 
> Save it as an EPS file.  Unless it's line art,
> in which case they're bothered about print
> quality and they intend to trace it for you.

That won't vectorize it -- just encapsulate it in postscript.  EPS files
can contain bitmaps as well as vectored images.

To truly vectorize it, you'll need a trace program, but they take
hand-tweaking of the results to be usable, in my experience.

Ari


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