On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:19:49 -0800, Carlo DiCelico wrote: > I need to convert JPEG and PNG files to SVG. I'm currently using PIL > to generate the JPEG/PNG files to begin with. However, I need to be > able to scale the generated images up in size without a loss of image > quality. Using SVG seems to be the best way to do this, other than > generating the images in the maximum size/resolution in the first > place, which would be too resource intensive. > > I've looked around online and have found some tools for creating SVGs > but none for converting an image into SVG. > > Does anyone have any experience doing this? What would be the best way > to go about this?
JPEG/PNG are raster formats, SVG is a vector format. To convert raster graphics to vector graphics, you need a "tracing" program (aka "image tracing", "vector tracing", "vectorizing"), e.g. potrace (this program is often bundled with InkScape): http://potrace.sourceforge.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list