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If you have the jpeg just open in Inkscape and trace.
Provocraft have opened a right can of worms by allowing you to view all the images from all the cartridges .
Even someone who doesn't have a Cricut but another electronic plotter can have access to all the images by buying Design Studio, making a screen shot of the images and turning them into gsd files.
Susibi

i just purchased sure cuts last night and I have been able to cut and weld on it but dont understand what it means to screen shot I also have design studio I have about 20 cartridges but there are a few things on some of the other that I would like to cut but not enough to buy the entire thing how can I download the different manuals and be able to cut some of those things. can anyone explain this to me in laymen terms I am not real computer savy. thanks for your help.

To take a screen shot means to take a picture of what is on your screen using the Print screen key which is usually found on your keyboard next to the F12 key. There is a thread about taking a screen shot:
http://forums.surecutsalot.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=561
If you have design studio you don't need to download the handbooks - you have the images in the cartridge library. Just click on them and they'll appear on the screen
Susibi

thanks I will try it that sounds simple enough.

I thought it was simple once I get the design on the screen then do I take a screen shot then what

The screen shot includes the picture and the mat. How do you get rid of the mat? Are you erasing it in the paint program? I only have the paint program that comes with Explorer. That seems like a lot of erasing. Is that what you are doing before saving it as a jpeg and then importing it into inkscape? That's a lot of questions. I'm sorry, but I was trying this out and I'm confused.

When I do the screenshot, I don't include the darker green lines and I use blue for the Preview color and do a Preview. Doing the Preview will give the image a black outline which make it easier to trace.

When I open the bitmap in Inkscape to trace it, I usually start my Brightness cutoff at 650 and increase or decrease to remove the lines. If you click on Update, you can see the lines get darker or disappear. I am satisfied when there are no lines connected to the shape I want.

AnointedHands wrote:When I do the screenshot, I don't include the darker green lines and I use blue for the Preview color and do a Preview. Doing the Preview will give the image a black outline which make it easier to trace.

When I open the bitmap in Inkscape to trace it, I usually start my Brightness cutoff at 650 and increase or decrease to remove the lines. If you click on Update, you can see the lines get darker or disappear. I am satisfied when there are no lines connected to the shape I want.

Thank you so much! I think I finally got it! I'll have to play some more tomorrow to make sure this wasn't a fluke, but I was able to get all the way to cutting something out.

you don't have to do a screen shot.... just import the pdf booklet in Inkscape (File, Import), choose which page you want to create and with some handlings, you can make your SVG file... PDF files are ready to import in Inkscape...(if you can zoom your picture without losing quality of your picture, it's probably because your picture is already a vector file...) but now, Cricut have modified their online booklets and it is not possible to do this with the new booklets... If you have the old booklets, it is possible to do it.

What is the difference between the old and the new handbooks online? The ones I have are PDF's but they don't appear to import into Inkscape - is that maybe because they are too big? You cannot see a preview and have to search under all files to be able to import it into Inkscape. One of mine is 4.5mg