I have a logo in .bmp format that I want to scale up a lot to go on a poster 
and I'm trying to find a way to convert it to vector so that I can best do 
this.  Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

Brian Abbott 

"Brian Abbott" <brian@abbott.SPAMOUT.plus.com> wrote in message 
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>I have a logo in .bmp format that I want to scale up a lot to go on a 
>poster and I'm trying to find a way to convert it to vector so that I can 
>best do this.  Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Brian Abbott
Its not that easy. there are applications that do it,and for a simple log it 
might work.
 Corel has "trace" as part of the Draw package and there is Raster2Vector, 
which is also a good keyword to put in Google but with To instead of 2.

The alternative is to trace it yourself on a vector layer above the raster 
layer. 

Hi Trev

I've used Raster2Vector and now have a .wmf file - but I'm lost as to how I 
get that into PSP.  Any suggestions?

Cheers


"Trev" <trevbowdenATdsl.pipexDOTnet> wrote in message 
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>
> "Brian Abbott" <brian@abbott.SPAMOUT.plus.com> wrote in message 
> news:4270b0cb$0$38045$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk...
>>I have a logo in .bmp format that I want to scale up a lot to go on a 
>>poster and I'm trying to find a way to convert it to vector so that I can 
>>best do this.  Can anyone help?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Brian Abbott
> Its not that easy. there are applications that do it,and for a simple log 
> it might work.
> Corel has "trace" as part of the Draw package and there is Raster2Vector, 
> which is also a good keyword to put in Google but with To instead of 2.
>
> The alternative is to trace it yourself on a vector layer above the raster 
> layer.
> 

"Brian Abbott" <brian@abbott.SPAMOUT.plus.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi Trev
>
> I've used Raster2Vector and now have a .wmf file - but I'm lost as to how 
> I get that into PSP.  Any suggestions?
>
> Cheers
>
 File open files of type wmf or all Or using the PSP browser double click or 
drag.
I have used MS clip art that's in WMF lots of times. Expand the layer in the 
layers palette to see what is what.
Use the Objects selection tool to scale it up Ect 

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:38:48 +0100, "Brian Abbott"
<brian@abbott.SPAMOUT.plus.com> wrote:

>I've used Raster2Vector and now have a .wmf file - but I'm lost as to how I 
>get that into PSP.  Any suggestions?

Simply open it in PSP, File>Open.  Make sure in File>Preferences>File
format preferences under the metafile import tab you check the Import
vector data box and the apply smoothing box.  Apply smoothing will add
curves to the WMF file since the WMF format doesn't support curves
this will make the file much simpler and easy to work with. Once it's
loaded into PSP you may want to select all the paths, right
click>properties> and check the anti-lias box.

Ron

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Thanks Trev

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> "Brian Abbott" <brian@abbott.SPAMOUT.plus.com> wrote in message 
> news:4270d95e$0$38043$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk...
>> Hi Trev
>>
>> I've used Raster2Vector and now have a .wmf file - but I'm lost as to how 
>> I get that into PSP.  Any suggestions?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
> File open files of type wmf or all Or using the PSP browser double click 
> or drag.
> I have used MS clip art that's in WMF lots of times. Expand the layer in 
> the layers palette to see what is what.
> Use the Objects selection tool to scale it up Ect
> 

Thanks Ron

"Ron Lacey" <c-tech@ronsfotos.com> wrote in message 
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> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:38:48 +0100, "Brian Abbott"
> <brian@abbott.SPAMOUT.plus.com> wrote:
>
>>I've used Raster2Vector and now have a .wmf file - but I'm lost as to how 
>>I
>>get that into PSP.  Any suggestions?
>
> Simply open it in PSP, File>Open.  Make sure in File>Preferences>File
> format preferences under the metafile import tab you check the Import
> vector data box and the apply smoothing box.  Apply smoothing will add
> curves to the WMF file since the WMF format doesn't support curves
> this will make the file much simpler and easy to work with. Once it's
> loaded into PSP you may want to select all the paths, right
> click>properties> and check the anti-lias box.
>
> Ron
>
> ron@ronsfotos.com
> http://borealphotography.com
> http://ronanddave.com
> ****************************
> The Corel World User Conference
> May 15-18, 2005
> http://www.corelworld.com