Vector art help?

Hiya,

Long shot, but I wondered if anyone was able to convert this PNG into Adobe Illustrator vector format? I'd like to scale it up and turn those jagged lines into smooth ones, but I have no clue where to start.

http://www.paperbuses.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/fl-routemaster.png

An Illustrator trace would make a mess of this I fear - the lines are just too close together, especially on the wheels. Not impossible, but it'll create a hefty file.

I'll give it a go.

Best I can do at short notice

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Png's no good. You haz pdf?

Speak English woman, I'm an artist not a translator.

Not you, Microsoft Paint boy, Mister BQ.

Portable Network Graphic's are not good enough to make vectors. Portable Document Format's can be pulled apart in Illustrator. Innit.

Program I used to use was called Scan2Cad. Often needed a whole lot of tidying up of the vectors afterwards. I'll see if I still have a copy,

BTW the bus in the picture is the same one used by Waffa as last year's TdF

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Not you, Microsoft Paint boy, Mister BQ.

Portable Network Graphic's are not good enough to make vectors. Portable Document Format's can be pulled apart in Illustrator. Innit.

Not good enough to "make", no, but Illustrator's trace feature should handle this moderately well, with the right settings.

An Illustrator trace would make a mess of this I fear.

llustrator's trace feature should handle this moderately well

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I know, I wrote the first reply before trying it. I've just run a quick trace and it looks reasonably ok. I'll try to post here.

Does this work? http://www.lfgss.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=36486&stc=1&d=1298319403

Will, I am afraid I must spread rep, etc. You made me chortle.

Wicksie, sadly that's the only file I have. No PDF.

Plinth, "Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

How 'bout this?
/attachments/36487

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• bus.pdf

the problem is that the image is too small to start with, the pixels are always going to be a problem. Retracing the image is a option, OR, can you try to contact the image owner and ask if there is access to the source file, ie the file the low res png file was generated from.

Thanks for your efforts.
Tracing clearly won't work. it just reproduces the jaggies.

I shall see if I can get in touch with the image owner.