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Thank you for visiting my homepage. The following shareware programs can be downloaded and used for 30 days. KVEC is a tool which can to vectorize images using several graphic formats (BMP, Windows Metafile, Enhanced Metafile, AutoCad DXF, HPGL, ART). It is also available on compuserve. Quick start: Open a console session, unzip the KVEC archive and type: KVEC (input file) (output file) -for (format) That is all!

vectorization, image-processing, conversion, vector, DXF, HPGL, postscript, WMF, tools for vectorizing images, format conversion. Op.-Systems: WIN95, WIN NT, OS/2, NextStep, Linux, HP-Unix, Macintosh, BeOS

Karl-Heinz Kuhl, Joseph-Haas-Str. 7d, 92637 Weiden, Germany

+++ shareware +++ shareware +++ shareware +++ shareware+++ shareware +++

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FAX/Voice: +49 961 61455

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The price to register KVEC amounts to US $25. This applies to all versions and is for private use only. The price for commercial use amounts to US $50. Multi-platform licences: US $39 for private use and US $78 for commercial use. You can register KVEC by - filling out the the registration form and send it to the author. - registration via the Registration Network (Reg-ID: 3749) FOR DEVELOPERS: Please contact me if you want the KVEC API package (containing KVEC-DLL or shared library, programmers documentation) You can freely download KVEC for the following platforms:


Download KVEC 2.57 for WIN9X or WIN NT (400 KByte)
Download KVEC 2.56 for OS/2 (650 KByte)
Download KVEC 2.40 for HP-Unix (450 KByte)
Download KVEC 1.3 for NEXTSTEP (1.6 MByte, QUAD-FAT) for NEXT-, Intel-, HP- and Sun workstations
Download KVEC 2.52 for Linux (350 KByte)
Download KVEC 2.35 for IRIX (400 KByte) for Silicon Graphics Indigo workstations
Download KVEC 1.72 for AIX 4.x (430 KByte) for IBM RS6000
Download KVEC 2.52 for Macintosh (1 MByte)
Download KVEC 2.48 for BeOS (400 KByte)

Last changes (17.12.2000, vers. 2.57):

centerline vectorization for big B/W scans now working properly.

KVEC now evaluates properly GIF files with less than 256 colors.

New formats added.

(06.07.2000, vers. 2.53):

detailed help information in case of syntax errors for the various parameters. 

Parameter files containing the "-voblack" switch now corrected for KVEC versions > 2.52

(03.07.2000, vers. 2.52):

Great parts of the code for centerline vectorization revised.

-voblack now working correctly.

New options especially for vecorizing CAD images, see CAD1.PAR

(01.07.2000, vers. 2.51):

Tiff class 'G' (gray) images using predictor and LZW compression now reading and writing correct

(01.05.2000, vers. 2.50):

New output format: Pfaff PCS

(20.09.99, vers. 2.49a):

Bounding Box in PS and EPS files now correct

Header in Adobe Illustrator format now correct

(17.07.99, vers. 2.48):

New output format: XFIG

Bugfixes: The KVEC Tiff Reader now accepts also reversed Bit-fillorder for all compression types 

and evaluates properly the predictor field.

(25.06.99, vers. 2.47):

new input format: WPG (Word Perfect Graphics file)

(10.05.99, vers. 2.46):

KVEC now writes a "compressed vector format" (KVC)

(26.04.99, vers. 2.44):

internal improvements

(19.04.99, vers. 2.43):

advanced features enabled for the free shareware version.

yet another bugfix for the WMF reader.

color effetcs added (color shading ...). New: switch "-pattern ..."

(19.04.99, vers. 2.42):

name of parameter file can now be specified as a parameter.

(18.04.99, vers. 2.41):

Bugfixes: KVEC now properly converts WMF -Files to all types of raster files

(17.02.99, vers. 2.40):

New switch: -coord (selects different types of coordinate scalings)

(15.01.99, vers. 2.39):

New platform for KVEC: BeOS Operating System

New options for resampling images: -xdim, -ydim

Zyxel FAX format revised

(17.12.98, vers. 2.38):

KVEC now properly vectorizes B/W images to HPGL format.

(17.11.98, vers. 2.36):

New features added:

gray-to-color conversion.

Colorspace conversion, (8 types of colorspace)

Color separation;  use of user-supplied external color palettes.

New: generation of  test-images (raster and vector). New options for

random images.

The KVEC package now contains a lot of parameter files which show

the use of the various KVEC parameters for typical applications.

New input and output-format for vector representation.

New raster output format: ZYXEL FAX.

KVEC now supports seperated Tiff-Files.

(17.10.98, vers. 2.34):

KVEC now reads properly huffman encoded Tiff-Files

(11.10.98, vers. 2.33):

KVEC can now also vectorize images with very large dimensions.

Older versions always caused memory allocation errors.

(06.07.98, vers. 2.30):

option "vcolor" now applies to a range of colors

(24.05.98, vers. 2.29):

new option: rotate

(16.05.98, vers. 2.28):

new dithering options

(11.05.98, vers. 2.28):

new: progress monitor

(08.05.98, vers. 2.27):

bugfixes:

memory allocation error when using 'null' as input

(06.05.98, vers. 2.26):

some bugfixes for the "-process" switch

new: easy to use detailed help functions in two languages  for each parameter;

image processing functions added (Fourier transformation, derivatives, integrals and more)

(24.04.98, vers. 2.22):

KVEC now can read and write parameter files

(22.04.98, vers. 2.21):

new input formats: FAX (raw), ZyXEL FAX

bugfixes: FAX compression for Tiff files now works correctly

 (16.04.98, vers. 2.20):

Input parameter now apply also to raster-raster conversion

New input formats: JPEG, PNM

(31.03.98, vers. 2.13):

Bugfix: KVEC now works correctly when using the -voblack option.

Bugfix: Some Tiff-files caused an error during reading.

New input formats added: PCX, SGI, TGA, IMG 

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