Raster to vector converstion help

I am running illustrator 10 on a G4 running OS10.39.
I have a tiff file in illustrator that I would like to convert to a vector file.
Does anyone know how Illus. 10 can do this or of a download I can use that will do the conversion.
Thank you in advance
Johanna

VectorMagic is an online service you would be best to do this that way. there is a feature called auto trace in v.10 but not very helpful.

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>Plus...don't forget that the monitor screen you're looking at...and the printer you're printing to...render their result on a grid of pixels/dots as well.
>
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hi, im trying to figure out how to sort the vector
objects below in alphabetical order. But i can't
figure out how to fix this code
any help is greatly appreciated. THANKS!!!
import java.lang.String.*;
import java.util.Vector;
public class Test2
public void hi()
Vector v = new Vector();
v.add("Donkey");
v.add("Dog");
v.add("Parakeet");
v.add("Cat");
v.add("Mule");
v.add("Horse");
v.add("Zebra");
v.add("Lion");
v.add("Frog");
v.add("Catepillar");
v.add("Butterfly");
v.add("Ostrich");
for(int i = 0; i < v.size(); i++)
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int j = i - 1;
while(j>=0 && j > o)
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j--;
j + 1 = o;
//substring(s.indexOf(",") + 2, s.indexOf("[") -
) - 1)
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public static String[] getHeader(Vector values, int format)
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