Perhaps, beofre saving, duplicate the traced layer, lock the imported background layer, rename the layers from path-12345 to 'tracesettings-x-y-z' etc. SVG by default but there is an option to save as.

I want Inkscape to import a PNG picture, autotrace it with some settings, save it as SVG. To save your vector, go to File > Save As and select your extension. I've tried the ' action' command-line option inkscape -without-gui -actions='file-open:my.png'Īnd this brings up the small 'png bitmap image import' dialog, waiting for me to confirm.Īlso I've tried the verb command line option inkscape -with-gui -verb='FileImport:my.png'Īnd this opens the large 'Select file to import' dialog (ignoring my -verb argument) I'd like to convert simple sketches from PNG to SVG.Īnd I want to do this in a Bash for-loop, with different autotrace settings (number of passes ignore Speckles with max X pixels width) etc. Then I've realised that Inkscape has 'autotrace' now integrated in its codebase. I've tried to install a package, and to compile it from the source. I have tried the old command line tool autotrace on Linux, but I could not get it to run. (most Qs here on SO are the other way around)

I want to automate 'raster to vector' conversions.

Convert image into vector inkscape