If you work with computers sooner or later you’re going to find you need an image that is in a raster (AKA bitmap) format (e.g. .gif, .jpg, .wmf) translated to a vector format (e.g. .svg, .cgm, .dwg).

Illustrator is a popular Adobe application for creating vector graphics, one of the two main forms of computer graphics. Unlike bitmap images, vector graphics are mathematically generated and retain ...

Can anyone recommend software for conversion of a raster image to vector representation? I have a .jpg that I need to blow up to poster size. This is just a one-off so I can't pick up an expensive ...