# Changelog

What changed in pic2svg, newest first. Each entry is dated by the day the change was made in the code; a change reaches pic2svg.com when that version is deployed, which can be later.

Text of <https://pic2svg.com/changelog/>.

## October 2026

### 2026-10-17 — English at the root, new guides, a trace API and three fixes

- **Page:** English pages are served without a language prefix (/pricing/); the ten translations stay under their own prefix (/de/pricing/), and an /en/ address redirects to the unprefixed page.
- **Language:** The Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Refund & Cancellation Policy and Contact pages are English-only: the other languages carried shortened summaries rather than translations of these documents.
- **Page:** Format guides for WebP, GIF and TIFF, each with traces measured from the engine's own output.
- **Page:** Comparisons with Vectorizer.AI, Vector Magic and Inkscape's Trace Bitmap; claims about the other tools are quoted from their own pages with the date they were read.
- **Feature:** A public trace API, POST /api/v1/trace, with its own daily allowance separate from the website's free converter, and the pic2svg-mcp server and command-line tool that call it, documented at /mcp.
- **Feature:** In browsers that cannot display TIFF, a TIFF upload now shows a JPEG of the traced canvas beside its vector once the trace is back.
- **Fix:** 16-bit greyscale TIFFs traced as a single blank white shape; their grey levels are now scaled to 8 bits before tracing.
- **Fix:** The EPS and AI exports wrote their bounding-box header as %BoundingBox; it is now the standard %%BoundingBox.
- **Feature:** Files for search engines and AI assistants: llms.txt with an index of every page, a Markdown copy of each English page, an RSS feed of this changelog, and structured data for step-by-step guides and plan prices.
- **Fix:** The step labels on translated converter pages were always in English; they now follow the page's language.

### 2026-10-10 — Earliest recorded version

The project's version history starts here. Changes made before this date were not recorded one by one, so this entry lists everything the site offered as of this version.

- **Feature:** Image to SVG converter: traces JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, BMP and GIF images into filled vector paths with a deterministic, vtracer-based engine.
- **Feature:** Automatic trace mode: flat artwork with 48 or fewer colours is traced as polygons, photographs as curves. Three presets: Sharp, Balanced (the default) and Compact.
- **Feature:** Batch tracing of up to 12 images at once after a free sign-in; one image at a time without an account.
- **Feature:** Share links: a traced vector can be opened by anyone you send its link to.
- **Feature:** Images you add, and their traces, are kept in your browser so a page reload does not lose your work.
- **Format:** Export of one trace to PDF, EPS, AI (EPS-compatible PostScript) and DXF (AutoCAD R2010 polylines), produced when you choose a download format.
- **Pricing:** Three paid plans, Starter, Pro and Advanced, each billed monthly or yearly, and a 7-day Pro trial for every new account. Tracing, previewing and SVG download are free.
- **Page:** Format guides: PNG to SVG, JPG to SVG, image to DXF and batch image to SVG.
- **Page:** Research articles: an offline image-to-vector converter benchmark (measured 2026-09-28) and how to check whether an SVG is a real vector (measured 2026-09-29), each with its commands, raw measurement files and a claim ledger.
- **Page:** A comparison page for image-to-vector converters, at /benchmarks.
- **Page:** Pricing, Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Refund & Cancellation Policy and Contact pages.
- **Language:** The converter, the format guides, pricing and the legal pages in 11 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Arabic.