Xelitan GUI for Potrace

Although not as accessible as raster images, vector graphics have the advantage of scalability, meaning that they allow you to use the same design for both large projects, such as banners and billboards, and small projects, such as business cards.

In other words, the resolution of vector graphics stays the same when resized and rescaling them does not impact the image quality.

Converting an image from raster to vector format requires a dedicated application such as Xelitan GUI for Potrace. With a name that speaks for itself, this application delivers a user-friendly frontend for the Potrace command line open-source application, allowing you to convert from raster graphic formats to vector images.

While Potrace can output other vector graphics as well, Xelitan GUI for Potrace is limited to outputting SVG files only, compressed or not (SVG and SVGZ). As for input file formats, the application is capable of processing common file formats, such as PNG, GIF, JPEG and BMP.

Since one of the purposes of Xelitan GUI for Potrace was to create a more user-friendly experience for the end user, the application comes with a straightforward GUI with minimum options and tools to deal with.

Just open one raster image file from your computer and Xelitan GUI for Potrace will have it loaded in the application. A preview is displayed in the “Before” panel to show you the original image, while the “After” panel is populated once the image is processed.

Xelitan GUI for Potrace allows noise cleaning and image smoothing, while also delivering an image simplifcation tool. Keep in mind that it only features black and white mode, as you will surely notice in the preview area.

Xelitan GUI for Potrace is a simplistic and easy to use raster to vector converter for Windows, allowing you to make your bitmap images scalable with minimum effort. To make the conversion process even easier and faster, you can add Xelitan GUI for Potrace to the Windows’ context menu.