Background. Ok at the moment I have 2 reasons for booting Windows on my system. One is a Musical sequencing package and my pro soundcard. The other is the lack of a descent vector art package (on windows I use a combination of Expression2 and flash3). After playing with a package called autotrace it occured to me that it would be not too difficult to set up a program that will allow me to create basic vector strokes and fills with my wacom tablet... Paint with pencil type tool onto bitmap(ie one bit per pixel) Convert this to a vector at the end of each stroke.... Questions.... 1) At this point I could either start on a simple stand alone app or try and extend an existing project like the gimp.(gimp 1.3 code seems to be a lot more readable). Which would be better at this point. 2)Is the brush code now modular enough to allow me to create a new brush tool for creating vector strokes. (ultimately this would be very simular to the pencil. 3) I know that dynamic text creates its own special layers... Is the system robust enough to allow the creation of 'vector' layers? 4) Gimp already uses a library (libart?) to do raster to vector conversions does anybody know how this compares to autotrace? Thanks Danni
