

Perhaps, beofre saving, duplicate the traced layer, lock the imported background layer, rename the layers from path-12345 to "tracesettings-x-y-z" etc. I want Inkscape to import a PNG picture, autotrace it with some settings, save it as SVG. I've tried the " action" command-line option inkscape -without-gui -actions="file-open:my.png"Īnd this brings up the small "png bitmap image import" dialog, waiting for me to confirm.Īlso I've tried the verb command line option inkscape -with-gui -verb="FileImport:my.png"Īnd this opens the large "Select file to import" dialog (ignoring my -verb argument) I'd like to convert simple sketches from PNG to SVG.Īnd I want to do this in a Bash for-loop, with different autotrace settings (number of passes ignore Speckles with max X pixels width) etc. Then I've realised that Inkscape has "autotrace" now integrated in its codebase. I've tried to install a package, and to compile it from the source. I have tried the old command line tool autotrace on Linux, but I could not get it to run. Inkscape uses routines from Potrace, with the generous permission of the author.

(most Qs here on SO are the other way around) Inkscape has the ability to convert bitmap images into paths via tracing.

I want to automate "raster to vector" conversions.
