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I've got a vinyl plotter for making signs with and it eats vectors. Does anyone have a recommendation for a program that can trace stuff like logos and turn them into vectors? I've tried Corel draw but it's only a free trial and although I can get it to trace and delete the background I can't seem to produce anything that signcut Pro is happy to open.
Ples halp.

Have you checked that the paths made in Corel draw are closed?

I get this far:

I don't know the app sorry but it looks like it's creating an isolated raster image rather than a vector to me. The chequerboard effect looks very Photoshop.

I think a different program might be the answer, this buggers awful complex for what I want.

It's inevitably fiddly. What is it you're doing? If it's for paying customers then I'd just ask for vector artwork or else tell them it'll cost however much extra it will cost you to use some online service where someone will do this for you.

He's forcing me to do it!

It's just for myself mark, not to make money but maybe save money in the long term and so I can bash out a quick sign for the toilets or staff only or whatever. the text I can do in sign cut it's the logos that are the problem and it'd be nice to have a way to do it that isn't "force zardoz to do it" however satisfying that might be.

I'm caught up a capitalist nightmare.

I think you could do a lot worse than put it on https://www.fiverr.com/ and ask for quotes from freelancers to trace the existing logo into a vector format. I think you'll get quotes back from people overseas for a pittance.

Or have it done by a wonderfully kind man for nothing.

Or that! I wasn't sure if your #bantz upthread were serious or not.

"Force Zardoz" yes?

If you ever have a file that needs to be in a different format, https://cloudconvert.com is all you need.

Not for this task, though? Going from a raster to a vector isn't just a file format conversion.

Isolated raster.

No worries, and thanks for the upthread link that will take bread from my children mouths.

Gifalo Soldier

PDFugee

Try it.

No vector formats listed here

No he's right it doesn't work.

Zardoz, that worked a treat, thanks mate.

Zardoz > Grim...

Grim... you thicko! Bow to my expertise!

We used to use it all the time! What have you spods done to CloudConvert?!

If I have to use one of the many many other services for doing this online I'll be sad.

Evidence of brilliance:

That's neat! I like it!

Nice. What cutter do you have, Wookie? Something I've thought of getting myself.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/253612112484?c ... 2835176403

It be this one, dead easy to set up and use cause I managed it. You'll also need vinyl and app tape which is just massive masking tape

Err, is it possible you somehow don't know what a vector graphics format is, and why it's different from a raster one? I can't imagine any automated service being capable of doing this.

ONLY ZARDOZ

Drivers: Microsoft Windows only

Giphy "digital outrage":
https://media2.giphy.com/media/l41JWurt3cAucQOo8/giphy-loop.mp4

Absolutely I don't. Please tell me more about web graphics.

When a mummy angle and a daddy angle love each other very much...

keep going

Spare us the cutter