Is there a way to import a drawing into Inkscape ?
This would be a scanned drawing... nothing complicated, but what I want, of course, is to be able to edit it, or add color, etc, via Inkscape... is this possible with any format other than SVG and Inkscape ?
thanks
Up spake stu seven:
Is there a way to import a drawing into Inkscape ?
It can definitely be done with PNG images. File > Import.
Scanned images will probably be TIFFs. If Inkscape can't import them directly, you can convert them with the convert(1) program in the ImageMagick package.
Once you've brought it in you can try the trace on it, will give you a vectorised version you can apply fills etc too. (path>trace bitmap (Shift+Alt+B))
--- Trent Buck <fubarbaz@...104...> wrote:
Up spake stu seven:
Is there a way to import a drawing into Inkscape ?
It can definitely be done with PNG images. File > Import.
Scanned images will probably be TIFFs. If Inkscape can't import them directly, you can convert them with the convert(1) program in the ImageMagick package.
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John Cliff said to Trent who said to stu (I think):
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cliff" <simarilius@...12...> To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 1:40 AM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] import/edit non-svg ?
Once you've brought it in you can try the trace on it, will give you a vectorised version you can apply fills etc too. (path>trace bitmap (Shift+Alt+B))
--- Trent Buck <fubarbaz@...104...> wrote:
Up spake stu seven:
Is there a way to import a drawing into Inkscape ?
It can definitely be done with PNG images. File > Import.
Scanned images will probably be TIFFs. If Inkscape can't import them directly, you can convert them with the convert(1) program in the ImageMagick package.
-- -trent
Guys
I have just tried scanning a line drawing with the GIMP, saving as a .gif, then opening in Inkscape, tracing it and it worked fine - allowed me to edit the lines, fill, etc.
Hope that may be an option for you.
Adam
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 02:13 +1100, Trent Buck wrote:
Up spake stu seven:
Is there a way to import a drawing into Inkscape ?
It can definitely be done with PNG images. File > Import.
Scanned images will probably be TIFFs. If Inkscape can't import them directly, you can convert them with the convert(1) program in the ImageMagick package.
Actually, Inkscape can import anything that is supported by your GDK Pixbuf installation. You can find a list in /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders. Here's a copy of mine.
--Ted
PS - we do filter out SVG -- Inkscape handles that one on it's own ;)
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so" "png" 5 "gtk20" "The PNG image format" "image/png" "" "png" "" "\211PNG\r\n\032\n" "" 100
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-jpeg.so" "jpeg" 5 "gtk20" "The JPEG image format" "image/jpeg" "" "jpeg" "jpe" "jpg" "" "\377\330" "" 100
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-gif.so" "gif" 4 "gtk20" "The GIF image format" "image/gif" "" "gif" "" "GIF8" "" 100
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-ico.so" "ico" 5 "gtk20" "The ICO image format" "image/x-icon" "" "ico" "cur" "" " \001 " "zz znz" 100 " \002 " "zz znz" 100
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-ani.so" "ani" 4 "gtk20" "The ANI image format" "application/x-navi-animation" "" "ani" "" "RIFF ACON" " xxxx " 100
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-ras.so" "ras" 4 "gtk20" "The Sun raster image format" "image/x-cmu-raster" "image/x-sun-raster" "" "ras" "" "Y\246j\225" "" 100
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so" "xpm" 4 "gtk20" "The XPM image format" "image/x-xpixmap" "" "xpm" "" "/* XPM */" "" 100
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-tiff.so" "tiff" 0 "gtk20" "The TIFF image format" "image/tiff" "" "tiff" "tif" "" "MM *" " z " 100 "II* " " z" 100
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-pnm.so" "pnm" 4 "gtk20" "The PNM/PBM/PGM/PPM image format family" "image/x-portable-anymap" "image/x-portable-bitmap" "image/x-portable-graymap" "image/x-portable-pixmap" "" "pnm" "pbm" "pgm" "ppm" "" "P1" "" 100 "P2" "" 100 "P3" "" 100 "P4" "" 100 "P5" "" 100 "P6" "" 100
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-bmp.so" "bmp" 4 "gtk20" "The BMP image format" "image/bmp" "image/x-bmp" "image/x-MS-bmp" "" "bmp" "" "BM" "" 100
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-wbmp.so" "wbmp" 4 "gtk20" "The WBMP image format" "image/vnd.wap.wbmp" "" "wbmp" "" " " "z" 1
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xbm.so" "xbm" 4 "gtk20" "The XBM image format" "image/x-xbitmap" "" "xbm" "" "#define " "" 100 "/*" "" 50
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-tga.so" "tga" 4 "gtk20" "The Targa image format" "image/x-tga" "" "tga" "targa" "" " \001\001" "x " 100 " \001\t" "x " 100 " \002" "xz " 99 " \003" "xz " 100 " \n" "xz " 100 " \013" "xz " 100
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-pcx.so" "pcx" 4 "gtk20" "The PCX image format" "image/x-pcx" "" "pcx" "" "\n \001" "" 100 "\n\002\001" "" 100 "\n\003\001" "" 100 "\n\004\001" "" 100 "\n\005\001" "" 100
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/svg_loader.so" "svg" 2 "gtk20" "Scalable Vector Graphics" "image/svg+xml" "image/svg" "image/svg-xml" "image/vnd.adobe.svg+xml" "text/xml-svg" "" "svg" "svgz" "svg.gz" "" "<?xml" "" 50 "<svg" "" 100 "<!DOCTYPE svg" "" 100
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