anyone tried the silhoutte software for raster to vector yet? it's similar to coreltrace and adobe streamline only it's a plug-in for illustrator. they have a demo link at http://www.silhouetteonline.com/
looking for other's thoughts on this program or vendor...
Posted by Golden (Member # 164) on :
Scott, I looked over the site. It may be a truly great program...I couldn't say, but the first thing that comes to mind for me is the fact I don't scan "from/in" Illustrator. Maybe others do. I normally do my scanning while in Photoshop where I can crop, rotate, delete stray marks and dots, and adjust the image prior to vectorizing (assuming I use an auto-vectorizing program at all). It seems a bit expensive to me, but it has been a long time since I purchased my original Streamline program.
There are a few steps involved in scanning, saving to tif, opening and converting in Streamline, and saving in Illustrator, but I'd have to be doing a lot of raster-to-vector work before I'd consider the extra expense.
I'm with Scott, if anyone spends the $175-$350 for the program, I'd like to hear how you like it. I didn't download the demo version but I see that is available.
Mike Jackson
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
as the old sayin goes.."if it aint broke, dont fix it"....and STREAMLINE does it all......and its a stand alone program......
