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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!

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FAX/Voice: +49 961 61455

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Email: kkuhl@compuserve.com

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• KVEC Software Documentation (English)

• KVEC Software Documentation (German)

• Registration Information (English)

• Registration Information (German)

• License Information

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:

• Register KVEC for Win9X/NT(private use) via the Registration Network

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