Digital Tablet

[Ted Gould]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Craig Brooksby wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 11:23 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> ...
>> hey, I learned on Freehand 1.0 and have used Freehand and Illustrator
>> over the years so I sort of got what it was about. I don't do too much
>> illustration these days though and I am not an artist but I will check
>> it out. Does it have an auto trace tool?
>
> No autotrace tool.  I use Inkscape a lot and love it.  I'm not an
> artist either, but I like good, crisp illustrations.  I have insisted
> that my three kids learn to use it, so that they will at least grok
> vector vs. bitmap, what layers are about, etc., instead of just
> drawing everything in Word or Powerpoint.  :-)  Yay for Inkscape.  If
> I were Adobe I would encourage and support Inkscape.

Actually, that is incorrect.  Inkscape does have an autotrace feature.  It 
isn't a tool, you can just run it on a bitmap.

http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/ch14.html

 		--Ted