SCUT2 File out to Inkscape

[Applefamily]

I have tried to use the interface in SCAL but .... Well you know. I would like to try using Inkscape. I have a SCUT2 file I would like to edit. Any way of getting to a format to do so? The biggest trouble I am having with SCAL is when I try to past a object to a new layer it moves it grip coordinance.

[firstcut]

Use "paste in place" to get it to stay in the same location.

The workaround for getting SCUT2s to Inkscape is here if it comes to that
http://cleversomeday.wordpress.com/2010 ... ut-to-svg/

[Applefamily]

Thank you.

How about this.. Is there a way to break apart the nodes of a outline to make them all unique.

[firstcut]

No, because then you would not have a path, but just random nodes. You can edit nodes individually, though, use the node selection tool (2nd arrow from the top) and move or delete them however you like.

[Applefamily]

Then i need to change this solid shape into a path. how?

[firstcut]

I don't think I am following you. Unless it is text (including dingbats), it is already a path. If it is text, then use the convert to outlines command in the text menu.
If you are not talking about a shape that is already in SCAL, then you need to import it with the images button or svg button, depending on whether it is an svg or not.

[Applefamily]

I have an ear regular shape that is close so there is fill. I wish to turn that into a open ended path. The Trouble is it is in a SCUT2 file. This would be very similar to what I just found in inkscape link to help page At the bottom you see the ctrl+alt+/ (The path Division operation) this is what I would like to do to my shape turn it into lines.

[firstcut]

Oh, I get it now. Heather and I have both been trying to figure out how to do this and we have not come up with a solution. Is there any way you could trace over them with the pen tool? Otherwise you will have to take a screen shot and then open it up in Inkscape, autotrace it and then use the path division tool you mentioned.

[Applefamily]

Screen shot seems to be an ugly way of doing things. It would be nice to reverse the SVG-SCAL2 and just SCAL2-SVG.

[firstcut]

Right, that's on the wish list but until then we have to use the ugly workaround. Also on the wishlist is a way to open closed paths.