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Any apps/sites to vectorize images for free?

In the apps category (Windows, Mac, Linux), one can use Inkscape to perform a trace bitmap operation. The results are usually of reasonable quality and may require some manipulation of the parameters ...
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Alternative to Font Awesome

Friconix is my favorite Font Awesome alternative All the icons are free it uses CDN Easy to customize (explanations on the home page and Quick Started Guide are clear) I already requested an icon, ...
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Creating a logo with style similar to Flask's

You could get a good starting point by using Gimp and the G'MIC plugin, take a photo of something related to your product and crop then use the G'MIC engrave filter, add your text and you are away. E....
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Alternative to Inkscape that does not embed software-specific tags in the SVG

Inkscape allows to edit and export standard SVG, without Inkscape metadata. Try to Save as > Plain SVG.
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SVG search engine

Yes, Google can search for SVG files. Lifehacker agrees. January 28, 2011 Google Image Search Indexes SVG Files Last year, Google announced that it started to index SVG files, but the ...
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Gratis 2D floorplan drawing software

To answer your two questions: I recently had to draw a floor plan and used SweetHome3D to do so (http://www.sweethome3d.com; Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.12, Linux and Solaris; "Sweet Home 3D is a ...
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Animated SVG image viewer for Linux

The file you've provided opened in animated form in Ubuntu Linux in both Firefox and in Google Chrome.
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Which software to draw figures?

Probably the yEd will solve your dilemas. https://www.yworks.com/en/products/yfiles/yed/ If you need to play with details, Inkscape will serve well. (https://inkscape.org/en/about/) You can also ...
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Vector image to machine embroidery converter

Currently the best solution for this is inkstitch. It's a rather effective inkscape addon to export embroidery. A lot of the problems with the whole autopuncher thing is the algorithm used is actually ...
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App to convert existing image files to vector graphics?

Autotrace is a CLI program that has worked well for me, converting scanned contour drawings to vector art (.svg format, specifically). Potrace is another CLI option; I don't recall why but I settled ...
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Freeware EMF image editor

The test file provided in the comments will open without failure in Inkscape 0.92, a more recent version than the referenced 0.91 failure. It also "save as" fine with 0.92 in .emf format.
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Software for creating complex schematics involving organs and circuitry

While a general purpose vector editor like Inkscape would be fine for creating simple diagrams, you might be more interested in a tool more specialised for creating diagrams like Dia. Runs on Linux ...
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Software for creating complex schematics involving organs and circuitry

You can do this in Inkscape. If you activate the grid and hide page edges you get an infinite canvas with snapping. (You can save this as default) Here is an example I made for a circuit:
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What software can be used to make this cartoon-like graphic?

You could make such an image with a vector-graphics drawing program, such as Inkscape. I can't identify the fonts, but I think that would be outside the scope of this site, anyway.
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Vector graphics/sketch/CAD software that handles scaling as I would like it handled

Your question is a bit confusing because it seems like you wish to have features you find in a CAD application included in a Sketching software. So here I will recommend not a single application but a ...
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Online tool for drawing organic compounds and exporting to SVG?

My recently favorited online editor draw.io does sadly not support drawing organic or chemical compounds, but I looked at the list of Online Molecule editors and searched for one provided SVG export. ...
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Looking for an image to vector convert capability without installing on computer?

Inkscape can be found on the internet in portable format, and it allows you to convert any image to a vector image. You can do this by going Path > Trace Bitmap in the menu. But I have to admit it's ...
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A Command Line Tool to Simplify SVG Files

Scour is a python tool which removes redundant and spurious data from SVG files and then optimizes them. Install If you are on debian you can install it by typing this command: sudo apt install ...
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Any apps/sites to vectorize images for free?

Have not tried it from mobile device, but Free Online Converter should be exactly what you asking. You can try PNG to SVG as well. And there are even more sites like autotracer and Vectorization for ...
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graphics software that can draw scater plot using vector images instead of points

Windows (Linux, Mac), free, OpenSCAD may provide a solution. It is a text based 3D model creation program that also provides for 2D image generation. One can use import() feature in the software to ...
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Best software (preferably free) for rendering images similar to those found in a mathematics or physics text book?

TiKZ is a LaTeX package that allows you to code graphics. For example, your first example in TiKZ could look like this: \documentclass[tikz]{standalone} \usepackage{units} \begin{document} \begin{...
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Animating image sprites and outputing scene to gif

The ultimate free tool for doing this sort of work, (but with quite a steep learning curve), is Blender 3D which is a modelling, rendering, animation, video creation and editing suite - there is even ...
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Java library for multi-media and graphics

Well, it does not look as if this question were to be answered properly any soon, so I will just leave here my best effort to answer it. As far as I have seen, I have two promising possibilities for ...
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CAD vector graphic editor

You should definitely take a look at OpenSCAD (also called "the programmers solid 3D CAD modeler) - it is more of a 3D compiler than an actual modeler. The main difference to other CAD softwares ...
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C++ open source library for curve fitting

Four points are required to uniquely describe a cubic curve (the first article you've linked covers that case). You have more than four points so are unlikely to get a perfect fit - some kind of ...
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Non-proprietary Presentation / Vector Graphics Animation

LibreOffice Impress has the following features: Free, Gratis & Open Source Cross Platform (Windows, OS-X & Linux) Just about all of the power of PowerPoint Export as html with a choice of ...
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Software for creating and maintaining a vector icon set

Found my own answer. Affinity Designer for OS X seems to have all the features needed: Can draw several vectorial icons in a single page and declare many export zones for exporting icons individually ...
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Draw C++ assembly dependencies in Linux

The answer to your question is to use doxygen to parse your code and get it to produce, via GraphViz dot tool, any diagrams that you need. Parse Multiple Layers of C++ - Yes Multiple Code Languages - ...
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Extract bitmaps from SVG

I didn't get an answer for a long time, so finally, I implemented it in C#. You can use the free Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition. It matches the requirements: names them automatically:...
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Open-source linux alternative for Flash (as an animating tool)

Maybe a bit late, but... Have a look at AnimationMaker. I am developing this app as an alternative to Edge Animate. It's running on Linux and Windows and produces mp4, avi, animated gif and also HTML....
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