yes on both counts. You can trace images in Inkscape and export your tracings as .dxf files. You then open the .dxf files with ILD SOS and optimize them and convert them to .ild files
heres the question i should ask...What is the cheapest laser show software (not ishow) that will allow me to draw out animations and do great beams hows and allow it to go along with music? maybe under 150 bucks if possible
I would think that a Pangolin product would be your best bet, but you'd be better off asking that question over on photonlexicon.com. Some of the people there know about things that I've never heard of..