On 2/7/07, Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@...1493...> wrote:
I have an SVG from Wikipedia that I am trying to simplify down to a single path. Everything has gone well until I get to the last step. The symbol is the ancient symbol of Maurya, and on the base of the statue there are some cutouts in the shape of a horse and elephant. The artist decided to model this by drawing a horse and elephant in a light color rather than cutting a hole in the base. No problem, I thought. Just select the two paths and take the difference. Unfortunately, the cutouts are relying on a black stroke of 3. So when I take the difference, it doesn't look much like what it did before. If someone can help me figure out how to take a difference so I end up with a single path that looks as good as it currently does (I'm pretty sure it was autotraced from somewhere), it would be appreciated.
- select the horse&elephant path
- duplicate
- path > stroke to path
- drag-select both horse&elephant paths
- difference
- remove stroke
- select the result and the main path
- difference
done.