Convert PNG to EPS
Plenty of print workflows still ask for EPS. Trace the PNG into paths here and export Encapsulated PostScript your printer will accept.
- Input
- PNG
- Output
- EPS [soon]
- Engine
- WASM, in your tab
- Price
- Free preview
Drop an image here, or paste
Your image is never uploaded. It is traced in this tab.Open the full converter
Preset
- 01Logo — set for this page16 colours
- 02Line artBlack & white
- 03Photo64 colours
- 04Embroidery8 colours · Cutout
- 05Vinyl4 colours · Cutout
- 06LaserBlack & white · Polygon
- Output · SVG · PDF · EPS [soon] · DXF [soon]
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- Your file stays in this tab
The EPS exporter lands in week 4. Tracing and preview work today; export is disabled until then.
Why vectortrace
- Ticket 1 / 3
In-browser and private
The engine is WebAssembly running in a worker on your own machine. Your image is never uploaded — so there is nothing to leak, nothing to delete, and nothing to take on trust.
- Ticket 2 / 3
Editable paths, not a wrapper
The engine groups the image into colour regions, takes the boundary between them and fits curves to it. What comes out is real geometry — one fill per region, every node yours to move — produced in the tab and never on a server.
- Ticket 3 / 3
Formats print and production use
SVG and PDF today; EPS and DXF for cutters, engravers and embroidery software as the exporters land. Real files, opened in Illustrator, Inkscape and LibreCAD — not an SVG with a JPEG inside it.
Format facts
| Format facts | PNG · in | EPS · out |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Raster. A grid of pixels. | Vector. Encapsulated PostScript, the pre-press interchange format. |
| Scaling | Blurs or pixelates past its native size. | Sharp at any size. |
| Colour | Up to 16.7 million colours with 8-bit alpha. Lossless. | Solid fills. Many RIPs still expect EPS rather than SVG. |
| Editable in | Photoshop, GIMP, Affinity Photo. | Illustrator, Inkscape, CorelDRAW, most RIP software. |
| Typical use | Screenshots, web images, marks exported from a design tool. | Screen printing, sign shops, older print workflows. |
Worth knowing
EPS is Encapsulated PostScript: a PostScript program describing one piece of artwork, with a bounding box. It predates SVG by a decade and survives because RIPs, screen-printing shops and older sign software were built around it and never had a reason to move.
What EPS gives you over a PNG is the same thing SVG does — real outlines that scale and separate. What it gives you over SVG is that the shop on the other end of the email will open it without asking questions.
An EPS with a bitmap inside it is still a bitmap. If a printer rejected your last file for being "not real vector", that is usually what happened: a converter wrapped the raster rather than tracing it.
How it works
Drop the PNG
Drop the mark. Flat artwork traces best; keep the palette small if it is going to screen print.
Trace to flat fills
One fill per colour, low node count. Screen printing wants few colours because each one is a screen.
Export EPS
Send it on, or open it in Illustrator or CorelDRAW first to assign spot colours.
Benchmark
Measured, not marketed. The corpus, the method and every figure the run produced are published in full.
Methodology → /benchmarks- boundary error, p95
- 0.39 px
- region-count error
- 0.113
- node-count ratio
- 6.35×
Questions
- 01Why does my printer want EPS instead of SVG?
- Because their RIP was built for PostScript and EPS is the format it has always taken. It is not a quality difference — the same outlines are in both — it is a workflow that works and has not needed changing.
- 02Is an EPS with an image inside it still vector?
- No, and that is the usual reason a print shop rejects a file. EPS can embed a bitmap; the result has a vector wrapper and raster contents, and it prints exactly as badly as the bitmap did.
- 03What about spot colours?
- The trace produces flat process fills. Assigning spot colours is a job for your editor once the paths exist, because which spot library applies depends on the shop.
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