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Hi Tomas -

Yes, Adobe upgraded "Live Trace" to "Image Trace" in CS6, so you would have to get the new version to make use of it.  When I get home tonight, if I get a chance, I'll do a tracing of your art using "Image trace" so you can get an idea of what it can do without having to shell out money without any guarantee of success.

WRT pre-processing by smoothing & other procedures, my experience is that (a) they work best when the initial artwork is noisy.  They don't do as much when the initial artwork is "lumpy"; and, (b) they tend to round off sharp corners (if you have any, e.g., in fonts).

In general, my experience has been that while the automated tracing methods will provide reasonable starting points, manually tweaking the anchors and paths produced by these methods will result in the largest and most predictable increase in quality, so I usually bite the bullet and just do it.

Tom M