Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!lucid.com!campeau!jwz From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: "tracing" bitmaps to produce PostScript Message-ID: Date: 16 Mar 91 07:39:27 GMT Sender: usenet@lucid.com Organization: Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park, CA Lines: 9 I've heard that some programs (Adobe Illustrator?) let you display a bitmap on the screen and then lay down a spline over it, and to produce a PostScript representation of draw that spline, letting you convert a bitmap to a smaller and more manipulable format. This is a great idea; except that I don't have any toy computers. :-) Is there a program that will let me do this under X11? -- Jamie