MagicTracer Raster to Vector Converter Surpasses 13,000 Downloads

At the end of October 2005, Elgorithms released a new raster to vector conversion program. That program was MagicTracer 1.0. Today, MagicTracer is in its 1.5 release with over 13,000 downloads from its project homepage alone since the initial release late last year.

Pryor, OK (PRWEB) June 30, 2006 -- At the end of October 2005, Elgorithms released a new raster to vector conversion program. That program was MagicTracer 1.0. Today, MagicTracer is in its 1.5 release with over 13,000 downloads from its project homepage alone since the initial release late last year.

MagicTracer (http://www.magictracer.com/) is a program for converting raster graphics to vector graphics. Raster graphics are simply screen images comprised of pixels and are not intended to scale well to larger sizes. Vector graphics are composed of geometric entities such as lines, curves, and arcs that scale to larger sizes very well. MagicTracer's vector conversion and tracing capabilities bridge this gap between raster and vector graphics.

MagicTracer has dozens of raster tools that can sucessfully process images varying from full-color photos to black and white line art. One of MagicTracer's unique capabilities is the ability to draw raster shapes over your raster image. There's also the ability to directly process images from a scanner as well as a vector conversion tool that guides users through the process. Low contrast images are notoriously hard to work with in raster to vector conversion. MagicTracer's vector conversion toolset makes these images easy to work with.

MagicTracer also has vector tools at its disposal for vector tracing cleanup. Typical usage includes adding and removing points, converting curves to lines, lines to curves, and joining lines or curves. These tasks can be easily accomplished in MagicTracer. Its raster and vector tools provide more than enough for typical raster to vector converting processes.

MagicTracer comes as a fully-functional 35-uses trial with each use limited to 12 hours maximum. MagicTracer runs on most Windows platforms. There's also a set of vector conversion videos (http://www.magictracer.com/samples/videos.html) for online viewing or download (requires Windows Media Player) as well as some samples(http://www.magictracer.com/samples/) and tutorials(http://www.magictracer.com/tutorials/). For more information visit the MagicTracer raster to vector converter project web site.

About Elgorithms:

Elgorithms is a small company based in Pryor, Oklahoma, United States. Our areas of disipline include: software development, visual communication, usability design, and web development. We also work on some free programs and compile some information and links that we find useful on the Elgorithms development team web site.

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