How to auto trace an image?

[ynneBBenny]

Hi I recently purchased Designer 2, so far it looks and feels amazing. 
There are a few things I cant work out how to do. Where is the image trace function? I use this quite regularly on Inkscape but cant find it in Designer. (Probably right under my nose somewhere.
Also how do I auto crop the page size around a selected item?
Keep up the great work, Ben

[v_kyr]

ADe 2 has no autotracer build in, in order to trace and vectorize an image you have to use third party tools as workarounds. With a third party tracer save the vectorized result as PDF/SVG and open or import that one into ADe 2 then.

See related ...

• List of some third party vectorization & tracing tools

[LevityDesigns]

Just wanted to check to see if there was an update on this in 2024

[dominik]

40 minutes ago, LevityDesigns said:

Just wanted to check to see if there was an update on this in 2024

Hello @LevityDesigns and welcome to the forum 

Autotrace is still not part of the Affinity apps and this will most likely stay like this for some time. Part of the reason ( I am guessing here ) is that there are many alternatives around so that the programmers do concentrate on the more unique or necessary features ( and bug fixing).

d.

[H. Gabor]

The Auto Trace will be instrumental for a lot of us. I hope it will be part of the Affinity. 😉