Jeffrsnapln Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Hi there, I am used to Corel Draw, and am trying AD as an alternative because of the lack of a native mac version of corel draw. One thing that works very well in Corel is the trace feature, whereby you can convert a bitmap or other raster image to vector curves. Can you do this in AD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Not automatically. It's a popular request but hard to do well, so we'll probably add tracing eventually but not soon. You can of course trace by hand. Raskolnikov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrsnapln Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Glad to know its on the cards at least. I have actually purchased AD now, as I have been very impressed with it so far and the lack of a native Mac version of Corel Draw really annoys me. Affinity's lack of a vectorise / trace function is a massive restriction though. It is something I use constantly and I'd really really like to see it added! In the meantime, what other vector formats can be imported, so that I can trace in Corel and import the resulting vector into Affinity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted January 22, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 22, 2015 You can happily import EPS, SVG, PDF, Illustrator and Freehand MX files which are all common vector formats :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaplMike Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I miss FreeHand. :( Used it daily in my job back in the 90s. Quote = Designer & Programmer = Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBR Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 I love Affinity Designer but I do miss the trace function Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velosolex Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Until this is built into AD, I have been using Image Vectorizer from the App Store (£3.99). I'm not a professional graphic designer and I've only thrown simple b&w images at it, but it's worked well for me so far. Might be worth a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameliorate Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 I use Vector Magic for tracing, it's always been better than Illustrator at tracing, it's kinda an oldie, but a consideration and very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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