convert ppm to svg

[Michael]

it has two colors in it.... the vine and black.
this is for a watermark and I seem to remember putting it in something
once.
I don't feel well. I give up for now!

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> Install Inkscape, load your original jpg into inkscape.
>
> Select the image by clicking once on it and then go to Path -> Trace
> Bitmap.
>
> You can then play with the settings clicking "update" in between changes
> to get a rough idea of what you will get.
>
> If your image has a ton of colors in it or needs color gradients you
> should edit your image in GIMP to get it down to the fewest number of
> colors possible, and the colors used in anti-aliasing can matter to the
> final product as well.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 03/15/2016 04:17 PM, Michael wrote:
>
>> I attempted to use potrace but part of the image is gone after the
>> conversion:
>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BweRamx9lXSLZjZNQzdYZHB4djA
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> These are the commands I entered to due the conversion:
>>
>>   convert watermark3.jpg watermark3.ppm
>>   potrace -s watermark3.ppm -o watermark3.svg
>>
>> I looked into the manpage and it seems that you are telling it the *.ppm
>> is a SVG file but maybe you are telling it you want to convert the ppm
>> to svg.... I don't know.
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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