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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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