Trace, refine & hand off
brand-ready vectors.

Yes. Tracing, licensing and activation are 100% local. You can run it on an air-gapped machine in a print shop or studio.

No — and it doesn't try to. Vecspine is the prep stage: it handles tracing, cleanup, palette extraction and structure so your pro editor receives a clean, layered vector. Your editor stays the home for final art, layout and print production; Vecspine just makes sure what arrives there is already 95% done.

Yes — exports are clean, layered SVG with grouped color layers and editable paths, plus true vector PDF. CorelDRAW and Affinity Designer open the same files without issue.

Yes — that's the whole point. The built-in editor lets you click or marquee-select shapes, drag to move, scale with the Size slider, recolor per shape or layer, group / ungroup, punch holes and add text as outlines. See the node editing guide for anchor-level control.

Yes. Press N and click any shape: drag anchors, pull bézier handles, add or delete anchors, straighten / curve segments, smooth / corner nodes, and add handles to straight points. Read the full node editing guide for every hotkey and gesture.

Yes — press A to grab the artboard. Drag any of the 8 handles (4 corners + 4 edges) to resize; Shift keeps proportions, Ctrl resizes symmetrically from the center. See the canvas tool guide for every modifier combination.

A .vsp is Vecspine's self-contained project container — a single zip bundling your current SVG, the original source image, all trace settings, view state (zoom/pan), and canvas size. Read the project files guide for a complete breakdown.

Vecspine autosaves every 60 seconds (only when the document has actually changed) into a hidden session file. Enable File → Remember Last Session on Startup and the next launch offers to restore the exact state you were in — trace, edits, settings and all. Covered in the autosave guide.

Yes. Open any SVG and the full editor toolkit (select, recolor, move, group, subtract, text tool, node editing) applies — attribute fills, style fills, and CSS fills are all handled. You can also open a .vsp project from any previous session.

Yes. The built-in Calendar Generator (Ctrl+Shift+N) creates fully editable, print-ready vector calendars in 1, 3, or 12-month layouts. You can choose Sunday or Monday start days, edit the text, and export directly to SVG or PDF with crop marks. See the calendar generator guide for details.

Screen printers and spot-color workflows need one file per ink. Vecspine's Plates tab lists every flat color with its HEX, nearest ink name and coverage %. Read the color separations guide for the complete workflow.

Yes — the built-in halftone RIP screens every CMYK channel at true ISO 12647 rosette angles (C 15°, M 75°, Y 0°, K 45°) with round, square, diamond or line dots at 300–1200 DPI. Export 1-bit TIFF film positives per channel for screen exposure, or a single press-ready PDF with all four separations.

Yes — File → Batch Color Separations picks an input folder and an output folder, then processes every PNG, JPG, WEBP, BMP, TIFF or SVG in a single pass. See the separations guide for the full batch workflow.

Choose an input folder and an output folder, pick your trace settings once, and Vecspine converts every supported image in the source folder in a single pass. Read the batch conversion guide for the complete setup.

Yes. We export R2010 DXF with one layer per extracted color, Y-up coordinate space, and all curves flattened to polyline segments the machines understand. See the cut-ready exports guide for DXF, HPGL and G-code details.

Four: DXF (R2010, per-color layers) for CAD/CNC, HPGL/PLT for vinyl plotters, G-code for CO₂ lasers & CNC routers, and a cut-contour die-line SVG — a single closed outline with an adjustable bleed offset for sticker kiss-cutting. Read the cut-ready exports guide for the full spec.

File → Print Proof Sheet (Ctrl+P) prints a client-ready proof in one go. See the proof sheet guide for every section the dialog offers.

One click generates 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 128, 256 and 512 px PNGs plus a bundled multi-size favicon.ico (16/32/48 inside) — exactly the set browsers and OSes expect. See the icon kit guide for the full spec.

Three, depending on your handoff: CSS custom properties (:root { --brand-primary: #189AD3; }) for web, JSON ([{name, hex}]) for design systems, or an SVG swatch sheet you can drop straight into Figma or Illustrator.

No — and that's by design. Text placed with the T tool is baked into bézier outlines the moment you click the canvas, so the exported SVG has zero font dependencies. Your client's printer, Figma, or Inkscape will never ask for a missing font.

PNG, JPG / JPEG, WEBP, BMP and TIFF — anything a client typically emails. You can also drop existing SVGs or .vsp project files to pick up previous work.

A logo-sized PNG (1000 × 1000 px) traces in under a second on modern hardware. Larger artwork (4K+) takes a few seconds. Batch mode scales linearly — 50 logos process in well under a minute.

Fifty operations. Every recolor, move, scale, group, ungroup, subtract and text-add goes on the stack; bulk operations count as a single step so one Ctrl+Z rolls back an entire gesture.

The free trial allows up to 20 traces/exports within a 14-day window. Once you reach this limit, preview, editing, and tracing continue to work perfectly, but exporting locks until you activate a license key. No files are held hostage — your work and any saved .vsp project files remain fully accessible.

No. Email us your new Machine ID and we re-issue a bound key — free for Studio and Agency tiers.

Vecspine is optimized for logos: mono marks, flat-color brands, badges and line art. Photographic images are better handled by dedicated photo tools — though the halftone RIP can screen photos for screen printing.

Three big differences: (1) everything runs offline — your clients' unreleased logos never leave the machine. (2) Image Trace hands you raw paths you then clean up manually; Vecspine hands you a refined, layered, brand-correct vector — plus instant separations for screen printers and project files for long-running jobs. (3) perpetual license, no subscription, no per-export credits.