Hi there,
I am fairly new to this forum and I love Scal, I have a file that I think I switched to SVG. I have spent frustrating hour and half trying to make this show up in SCAL it show up in inkscape just fine. Please if someone has a moment to take a look at this file and let me know if I am doing something wrong. Thanks so much.
Beth
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Re: Help
You just imported your picture (which is great by the way) but didn't trace it. Check out the Inkscape forums and to see how to trace.
You might want to try this now.
You might want to try this now.
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Thanks so much for your help I will look at the tutorials again. Ok when I look and the one you fixed for me most of it is black is it supposed to be that way and will it cut ok....Sorry to be such a pain, but I am learning and I will get the hang of this.
Thanks again
Beth
Thanks again
Beth
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Re: Help
Beth
The file gatechgal sent you has both your original image plus the one drawn by Inkscape.
Open up the file and go to View - Display Mode - Outline. This is always a really good screen to go to as it will show you what is going to cut.
You will see that your image is there plus a box with the red X through it.
Click into the image and drag it sideways so you can see two different images - the image you want outlined and then the red X. You can delete the red x image as it is your original jpg and is of no use now.
Now you can see what will cut. If you go back to View - Display Mode - Normal it is still black but that is just because on this normal screen you can colour your image for your own reference.
Hope that helps.
Now you can save the image and then go into SCAL and IMPORT the svg file in and you should be good to cut. You will have to resize in SCAL and then just check the preview of it in SCAL and away you go.
Hope that makes some sense.
Raewyn
The file gatechgal sent you has both your original image plus the one drawn by Inkscape.
Open up the file and go to View - Display Mode - Outline. This is always a really good screen to go to as it will show you what is going to cut.
You will see that your image is there plus a box with the red X through it.
Click into the image and drag it sideways so you can see two different images - the image you want outlined and then the red X. You can delete the red x image as it is your original jpg and is of no use now.
Now you can see what will cut. If you go back to View - Display Mode - Normal it is still black but that is just because on this normal screen you can colour your image for your own reference.
Hope that helps.
Now you can save the image and then go into SCAL and IMPORT the svg file in and you should be good to cut. You will have to resize in SCAL and then just check the preview of it in SCAL and away you go.
Hope that makes some sense.
Raewyn
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