Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!srhqla!quad1!ttidca!schear From: schear@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Schear) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Know any applications for enhancing pixel-based line drawings? Message-ID: <12868@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 1 May 90 16:40:58 GMT References: <390047@hpfcdq.HP.COM> Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica Lines: 22 In article <390047@hpfcdq.HP.COM> olsen@hpfcdq.HP.COM (John Olsen) writes: >cline@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu (Marshall Cline) writes: >>A collegue and I are doing some research on a technique to enhance >>pixel based line drawings. ... >>(or enlarged) display. >> >>MY QUESTION IS THIS: do you know of any *applications* for such a >>technique? I mentioned displaying pixel-based images on higher >>density displays, and I mentioned enlarging existing pixel-based line >>drawings. Know of any other apps? > >olsen@hpfcdq.HP.COM Marshall, There are two excellent Mac applications which can "automatically" convert images with freehand drawings into a vector representation. They are Aldus' FreeHand and Adobe's Illustrator. Deneba Software's Canvas 2.0 also has a more primitive version of this capability. In all these applications, the free hand information is converted into bezier curves suitable for further manipulation and subsequent output as PostScript. Steve