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In any case, you would need a vector drawing tool, such as Adobe
Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand. They do already have an autotrace tool,
which allow you to convert blobs of pixels into vector paths.
If you need more control and more power, you could for example look at
Adobe Streamline.
However, in any case, you must be aware of the possibilities and
limitations of the whole process.
Hope, this can help.
Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering AG
Technical documentation and translations, Electronic Publishing
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
>Does anyone know of a good tool to convert graphics (gifs and jpegs)
>to line drawings so they are legible (and weigh in less heavy) on the web?
>
>thanks
