: Vectorise image with straight lines and fillings I'm looking for good suggestions to vectorise the following image, using one of the standard available software toolkits, e.g. Illustrator or Gimp.
I'm looking for good suggestions to vectorise the following image, using one of the standard available software toolkits, e.g. Illustrator or Gimp.
I was approaching the vectorisation of this image with the idea that it should be straight-forward, given that it only consists of straight lines and fillings. Nevertheless, Illustrator's standard trace function smoothes everything and gives me curved lines and fillings. Using "Object->Create Object Mosaic" is not an alternative, as the thin lines between the squares won't be reproduced unless I set the Mosaic size to 1 pixel, which takes forever to compute. I need an exact representation of the image with a decent file size.
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These are the the results from tracing using Inkscape with settings given in another answer on a similar topic, except that I took 8 scans only because there are no more colors in the source:
Top bitmap - Bottom vector
Vector scaled
I would use Object → Create Object Mosaic, despite your claims that it will not work. Ignore the fact that it kills the gaps, just add them in after this step. Then just assign a stroke to the resulting vectors. As this will ensure that your lines will stay like they are. Sure it is one step away fishing but its very fast you can easily automate this.
Create image mosaic
Image 1: Object mosaic
Add stroke
Image 2: Add stroke
This is all relatively fast at under a minute per image done manually.
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