avre001 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Good day! Please tell me if Affinity Designer has a raster image autorouter to turn them into vectors, if there is, how to enable it, apply it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avre001 Posted July 25, 2020 Author Share Posted July 25, 2020 If you can, please show me in pictures ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted July 25, 2020 Staff Share Posted July 25, 2020 It's not yet a feature within Affinity Designer, in the meantime some sites do auto tracing. You then download an .SVG file which can be opened in Designer for further editing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avre001 Posted July 25, 2020 Author Share Posted July 25, 2020 It is a pity that there is no such function. It's too early to switch to Affinity. We'll have to use other full-fledged programs ... Thank! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silikonanswer Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Affinity is tight lipped regarding if this funcionality is going to be implemented 😞 avre001 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 3 minutes ago, silikonanswer said: Affinity is tight lipped regarding if this funcionality is going to be implemented 😞 While waiting for the auto trace ghost to appear you can try... v_kyr Kindly made this list of alternatives... Some desktop app tools potrace (Win/Mac/Linux, free) DragPotrace (a Mac only GUI frontend for potrace, free) autotrace (Win/Mac/Linux, free) Inkscape (Win/Mac/Linux, free) Intaglio Vectorize (Mac, free) MS Expression Design 4 (Win, free to use since longer times since discontinuous) Super Vectorizer (Mac, commercial) Image Vectorizer (Mac, commercial) Vector Magic (Win/Mac, commercial) ...and so on... Some online tracing tools: www.autotracer.org www.vectorizer.io www.vectorization.org www.photopea.org online-converting.com/autotrace/ online.rapidresizer.com/tracer.php ...and so on... Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 8 hours ago, silikonanswer said: Affinity is tight lipped regarding if this funcionality is going to be implemented 😞 FWIW, several years ago one of (I think) the developers said they would not implement auto tracing unless they could improve on what is (or was at that time) already available in other auto-tracers. What that means is anybody's guess. Old Bruce 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archangel Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 On 9/6/2021 at 5:08 PM, R C-R said: FWIW, several years ago one of (I think) the developers said they would not implement auto tracing unless they could improve on what is (or was at that time) already available in other auto-tracers. What that means is anybody's guess. Fascinating. It's a shame as their DrawPlus application had an excellent autotrace function. Example loaded. PendleHil.svg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-bot Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 (edited) On 9/7/2021 at 2:08 AM, R C-R said: FWIW, several years ago one of (I think) the developers said they would not implement auto tracing unless they could improve on what is (or was at that time) already available in other auto-tracers. What that means is anybody's guess. It sounds like a 'nothing' answer, because its a standard feature of other vector applications. Strange that they can't borrow this feature from DrawPlus. Its not advertised in the suite so surely Serif don't expect me to go buy that too. If I have Adobe Illustrator, why do I need Affinity Designer? Lets face it, most of us bought Affinity Designer because we didn't want to be gouged monthly by Adobe. Really happy to support Affinity in their aim to be an affordable alternative. And while Vector Magic is excellent, its not free - the desktop edition costs more than both my Affinity products combined lol. The only 'in application' option I have for tracing which doesn't cost additional $ is Inkscape. However, today when I searched to see what new options there were, I found a few. This one has a GPL-3.0 license, is simple to use, and free: https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/Trace/ If the trace doesn't work perfectly, try increasing the first number in 'color filter'. Information about who made it and how it works is here: https://github.com/wieslawsoltes/Trace Found another one that does colour: https://www.textcompare.org/vectorize/ Edited September 12, 2022 by f-bot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 21 minutes ago, f-bot said: Strange that they can't borrow this feature from DrawPlus. Nothing strange about it. The Windows-only Serif 'draw' apps & the cross-platform Affinity apps are built on entirely different code bases so there is very little code that could run on both of them. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziplock9000 Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 On 9/12/2022 at 5:20 AM, R C-R said: Nothing strange about it. The Windows-only Serif 'draw' apps & the cross-platform Affinity apps are built on entirely different code bases so there is very little code that could run on both of them. Yes it is strange. The algorithm itself for tracing will be fairly short in C/C++ code that will almost completely be platform agnostic as it's just manipulating data and not a lot of system specific APIs. This can with very minor (if any) tweaks be used inside the codebases for Windows, iPad and MacOS versions of Affinity Designer. If for some reason the mac versions are Objective-C, the conversion to/from C will be extremely minimal. I do this all of the time, it's less than a day's work for a single developer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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