It is almost as if AD took a retrograde step in some functionality from Drawplus.

There were about 5 errors, and I dont know enough about the process to try and troubleshoot or fix.

Now I have a bunch of dependencies junking up my computer and no Inkscape.

Had I known I would end up filling my computer with a bunch of useless programs I would not have done this.

UGH.

My personal opinion is that Inkscape is quite below AD, in general as a solution for professional design (but Inkscape is actually good, in good hands), but Potrace, and its implementation in Inskcape, has been clearly superior to Illustrators (as you could refine better the settings) for many years, during my time at certain company.

All I can tell you is that reducing a lot the number of colors, to get the right silhouette, and then building per shadowcolor large area (by different passes, then compositing, or other techniques) is very doable, together with doing it in certain specific mode, and per stages, if you need the internal color and a lot of details, or in much more simplified way if you just need the silhouettes.

You can get almost a fully optimized shape from one go with the embedded potrace in Inkscape, once knowing the tricks, and just some smoothing later on, and some cleaning will get you a just average (considered super good for most people that request this feature) and usable result.

When I have needed to deliver, Ive anyways carried to perfection those few nodes remained, worked by hand.

To the level of quality I demand from my own output, and as one gets to be fast with node drawing tools with experience, it typically proved always to be faster and healthier to trace by hand from scratch (depends on the source image, and what is the style target).

But among the options, the concept of freecommercial is not the key: Potraceinkscape is as professional as most expensive options.

I bought several, including green screen software because Photoshop didnt do it.

I have used tracing software from the days of Adobe Streamline and I think Inkscape is better.

As Potrace is open source (as is Inkscape) surely it wouldnt be a huge leap to just drop it into the feature set.

Granted you can Potrace in Inkscape and copypaste that into Designer but its an extra step.

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Peter does seem a decent enough chap and it wouldnt hurt to drop him an email.

If the engineers over there cant get it working correctly that must be costing Serif a considerable headache not to mention money.

If I were in their shoes (Im not) Id be temped to drop him an email and offer money for a non-exclusive licence.

Im a big open source fan and occasionally contribute myself, but thats a different story.

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But very specially if doing a lot of research and trial and error till you get the very exact settings for a really optimized output (for specific cases.when willing to use it as functional vectors, not as a posterization filter, as thats kind of easier.

To not even have a similar system within AD seems a tad shortsighted.