You can see the preview of the traced image here. There is also an Autotrace option so I will click on it.Īnd click on the Update button of this dialog box. For understanding the Trace Bitmap panel deeply, you can go with my ‘Image to Vector’ article also. You can go with a Single scan for black and white images or if the image has multicolor then you can go with Multiple scans. Here we have two buttons for scanning our image that is Single scan and Multiple scans. So first we will convert this image into a vector format.įor converting this image into vector format, go to the Path menu and click on the Trace Bitmap option.Ī Trace Bitmap tab will be open on the right side of the working screen. The SVG image will remain sharp.Now if I zoom it then you can see it is a raster image and if we save it as SVG then scale it, it will pixelate. The small PNG image seems blurred (it's interpolated to a bigger size!), while the big PNG image remains unblurred (it's interpolated to a smaller size) until the zoom is under a certain level. If you are interested to a web page that can be zoomed, you can use directly SVG as image format (see comment), being aware that only modern browsers are able to manage vectorial images, or you can simply use a big image (see comment) and specify the output size at code level (obviously this increases the bandwidth consumption for the page).įor example, in html, we can compare the three alternatives (SVG logo, small PNG, big PNG): As pointed, it's pretty normal loosing the details while zooming on a fixed size image.Īssuming that the final destination of your image is a web page, when you perform a zoom operation the browser scales the raster images, usually by interpolation.

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