Comparison of raster-to-vector conversion software

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of raster to vector software. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.

General information

This table gives basic general information about the different vector graphics editors:

	Creator	Released	Latest version	List price (USD)	License
CorelDraw Graphics Suite	Corel	1989	12	$399, $179 upgrade (includes Photopaint)	Proprietary
Freehand MX	Macromedia	1988	11 (MX)	$399, $99 upgrade	Proprietary
Illustrator	Adobe	1985	12 (CS2)	$499, $169 upgrade	Proprietary
Inkscape	Inkscape Team	2003	0.42 (07/2005)	free	GPL
Intaglio	Purgatory Design	?	2.3.3	$89	Shareware
MagicTracer	Elgorithms	2005	1.0	$49	Shareware
Xara X	Xara	1995	X¹	$79	Proprietary
	Creator	Released	Latest version	List price (USD)	License

Operating system support

This table lists the operating systems that different editors can run on without emulation:

	Windows	Mac OS X	Unix
CorelDraw Graphics Suite	Yes	No	No
Freehand MX	Yes	Yes	No
Illustrator	Yes	Yes	No
Inkscape	Yes	Yes	Yes
Intaglio	No	Yes	No
MagicTracer	Yes	No	No
Xara X	Yes	No	No
	Windows	Mac OS X	Unix

"Unix" includes the similar Linux and BSD operating systems.

Basic Features

	Maximum page size	Maximum zoom	Object limit per document	Control point limit	Color management for print	Scripting support
CorelDraw Graphics Suite	?	4000x	?	?	Yes	Yes
Freehand MX	?	64x	?	?	?	Yes
Illustrator	?	64x	?	?	Yes	Yes
Inkscape	?	256x	?	?	No	Yes
Intaglio	?	16x	?	?	?	?
MagicTracer	?	12800x	?	?	Yes	No
Xara X	?	256x	?	?	Yes	No
	Maximum page size	Maximum zoom	Object limit per document	Control point limit	Color management for print	Scripting support

See also

• Raster to vector
• List of raster to vector software