


Why Inkscape Inkscape is an open-source, vector-based graphics editor tool. Perhaps, beofre saving, duplicate the traced layer, lock the imported background layer, rename the layers from path-12345 to "tracesettings-x-y-z" etc. For photo editing tasks, GIMP is recommended. In the dialog, select Color Quantization, and set your Colors to 2. Once youve selected your image, start the trace by clicking Path > Trace Bitmap. I want Inkscape to import a PNG picture, autotrace it with some settings, save it as SVG. With your raster image selected, go to the Path menu and select Trace Bitmap (Shift+Alt+B). File > Import and choose your raster image. I've tried the " action" command-line option inkscape -without-gui -actions="file-open:my.png"Īnd this brings up the small "png bitmap image import" dialog, waiting for me to confirm.Īlso I've tried the verb command line option inkscape -with-gui -verb="FileImport:my.png"Īnd this opens the large "Select file to import" dialog (ignoring my -verb argument) I'd like to convert simple sketches from PNG to SVG.Īnd I want to do this in a Bash for-loop, with different autotrace settings (number of passes ignore Speckles with max X pixels width) etc.

Then I've realised that Inkscape has "autotrace" now integrated in its codebase. I've tried to install a package, and to compile it from the source. I have tried the old command line tool autotrace on Linux, but I could not get it to run. (most Qs here on SO are the other way around) I want to automate "raster to vector" conversions.
