Ok then, here is my result :
http://www.petaimg.com/u73/830africa_traced.svg
I used : brightness... 0,450 (untouched) edge... 0,650 (untouched) color quantisation : 2
brightness steps : 8 (you can probably lower that) tick : colors
unselect the three boxes at the bottom
On the "options" tab, deselect "smooth corners"
This gives you the group of 8 paths at the top of the file.
You can then duplicate the group, ungroup, move the unwanted paths, place a circle below, transform it to a path. Select both the ex-circle and your shapes and do Path / difference (or something).
N.B.: When you plan to trace a bitmap to make a svg out of it, do not open the PNG as such with Inkscape. Open a new document, import the png, trace, the file will have a svg extension - NO CRASH :p
--- On Mon, 5/18/09, Norman Khine <norman@...2639...> wrote:
From: Norman Khine <norman@...2639...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] fill areas advice To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 9:28 AM Hi, Thanks for the reply. Yes, when I saved it I did not remove the .png form the file name.
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:21 AM, worms invasion <wormsxulla@...12...> wrote:
Hi,
There must be something very special about your png
file, cos' it crashes my rev21271 Inkscape build every time I try to import it (windows XP). I can import other pngs just fine.
Anyway, to answer your question:
If you already have clean land shapes as you should
after following the tutorial:
This is the problem here, I don't seem to be able to get the clean land shapes correctly.
Here is the procedure, I am using:
- New file
- Import (africa.png)
- Call up the Trace (SHIFT-ALT-B)
- Choose brightness cutoff (0.980)
- Select the 'Inverse'
- Update
- I then added a circle
- Exported bitmap
- Open Gimp
- Removed the outer layer
Is there a quicker way to do this, and also at the same time get a better outline of the countries/ islands etc...
I have attached the original png file together with the updated .svg file with all the layers.
- create a new layer (below the current where the
shapes are)
go back to the current layer
duplicate the shapes (which, I suppose, are paths or
"empty" countries
go back to the current layer
Edit / duplicate the shape you want (the duplicated
one is then selected)
- Layer : move selection to layer below (the one you
just created)
- Go in the Object / fill and stroke menu. Suppress
the stroke (the original shape), add a fill.
- Done.
Now if you make the new layer invisible, you have your
lands shapes as empty as before.
N.B. : You could also use a sub-layer of the "current"
one instead of a new separate layer, but then if you make the current invisible, the invisibility also applies to the subs-, it's a bit more difficult to handle.
Regards.
--- On Sun, 5/17/09, Norman Khine <norman@...2639...>
wrote:
From: Norman Khine <norman@...2639...> Subject: [Inkscape-user] fill areas advice To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Sunday, May 17, 2009, 5:37 PM Hello, I tried to follow the tracing example at http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/ATracingExample.html but have difficulties in manipulating my image to what
I want.
Basically I have three globes (file attached), I
have
traced the areas, but now I would like to fill the land parts
with the
colors red, green and blue one for each globe and for
this fill to
be in a new layer. Can someone please advise on how to achieve this. Many thanks Norman
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