separate traced objects
Hallo,
I made some designs like this one: http://hagoschaos.de/test/ _W-NJ-07.jpg_ They are A4 or larger. I scanned or fotografed them with high resolution. Now I have PNGs with 300dpi. The one that you can see, is the smallest and simplest.
What I'd like to achieve is, to have every little part of the design as a separate object in inkscape. I already imported the files into inkscape and traced them - it gives a good result. But I can't separate the single parts. Is there a way inside inkscape?
(I found a way separate the parts it in gimp and trace them separately, but that's a huge lot of stupid work)
Regards, Hago
I'd be inclined to cheat. use the freehand tool to draw a filled shape that covers the bit you want to seperate out, duplicate the trace, and then do intersection (Ctrl+*) the copy will be cut down to just the shape you were after.
--- Hago Ziegler <hgi@...624...> wrote:
Hallo,
I made some designs like this one: http://hagoschaos.de/test/ _W-NJ-07.jpg_ They are A4 or larger. I scanned or fotografed them with high resolution. Now I have PNGs with 300dpi. The one that you can see, is the smallest and simplest.
What I'd like to achieve is, to have every little part of the design as a separate object in inkscape. I already imported the files into inkscape and traced them - it gives a good result. But I can't separate the single parts. Is there a way inside inkscape?
(I found a way separate the parts it in gimp and trace them separately, but that's a huge lot of stupid work)
Regards, Hago
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Hago Ziegler wrote:
Hallo,
I made some designs like this one: http://hagoschaos.de/test/ _W-NJ-07.jpg_ They are A4 or larger. I scanned or fotografed them with high resolution. Now I have PNGs with 300dpi. The one that you can see, is the smallest and simplest.
What I'd like to achieve is, to have every little part of the design as a separate object in inkscape. I already imported the files into inkscape and traced them - it gives a good result. But I can't separate the single parts. Is there a way inside inkscape?
Have you tried Path\Break apart?
Hago Ziegler <hgi@...125...> writes:
Hallo,
I made some designs like this one: http://hagoschaos.de/test/ _W-NJ-07.jpg_ They are A4 or larger. I scanned or fotografed them with high resolution. Now I have PNGs with 300dpi. The one that you can see, is the smallest and simplest.
What I'd like to achieve is, to have every little part of the design as a separate object in inkscape. I already imported the files into inkscape and traced them - it gives a good result. But I can't separate the single parts. Is there a way inside inkscape?
Yes: select the result, do path-->break apart (shift+ctrl+K). Don't mind that some parts become black, it's temporary. Now select each group of paths comprising a single drawing and do path-->combine (ctrl+K). The black areas will go back to normal and you'll soon have your separate objects.
Hi,
thanks for the help. I tried everything, but up to now without success.
I hope you understood, that I have not black and white images after the trace, but greyscale images (actually with 5 steps of grey). John Cliffs idea with the intersection works only with two paths.
After some tests with the Break Apart function, I have the impression, that it is the same difficulty: my trace is a group of 5 paths.
Ungrouping it, doing the whole work 5 times and then recombine all the different parts - that's too much.
It should be a method which allows me to break apart all paths at once.
Regards, Hago
Didnt realise they were multi trace, that would indeed make my cheat not work. Cant think of any easy way round this with the current toolset. Will give it some thought.
Cheers
John
--- Hago Ziegler <hgi@...624...> wrote:
Hi,
thanks for the help. I tried everything, but up to now without success.
I hope you understood, that I have not black and white images after the trace, but greyscale images (actually with 5 steps of grey). John Cliffs idea with the intersection works only with two paths.
After some tests with the Break Apart function, I have the impression, that it is the same difficulty: my trace is a group of 5 paths.
Ungrouping it, doing the whole work 5 times and then recombine all the different parts - that's too much.
It should be a method which allows me to break apart all paths at once.
Regards, Hago
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Hago wrote: "It should be a method which allows me to break apart all paths at once."
Hello, My post may be a little offtopic, but that reminds me of a feature request posted a few months ago, about an "Ungroup all" function. In combination with a "Break all" function (that could be the name of the function you talk about), the productivity of Inkscape could increase a little.
IMO tools that allow designers to perform mass operations on many objects at a time are really useful, as they save time.
Thanks! Molumen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hago Ziegler" <hgi@...624...> To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] separate traced objects
Hi,
thanks for the help. I tried everything, but up to now without success.
I hope you understood, that I have not black and white images after the trace, but greyscale images (actually with 5 steps of grey). John Cliffs idea with the intersection works only with two paths.
After some tests with the Break Apart function, I have the impression, that it is the same difficulty: my trace is a group of 5 paths.
Ungrouping it, doing the whole work 5 times and then recombine all the different parts - that's too much.
It should be a method which allows me to break apart all paths at once.
Regards, Hago
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Hago Ziegler wrote:
Hi,
After some tests with the Break Apart function, I have the impression, that it is the same difficulty: my trace is a group of 5 paths.
Ungrouping it, doing the whole work 5 times and then recombine all the different parts - that's too much.
It should be a method which allows me to break apart all paths at once.
For me, break apart does just that (it breaks apart the selected paths). The only problem I see with this method is the recombine step, a trace can be quite detailed and contain lots of small paths.
Jasper van de Gronde schrieb:
It should be a method which allows me to break apart all paths at once.
For me, break apart does just that (it breaks apart the selected paths).
I tried it several times, under different conditions - no chance. It only worked, when I selected only one path to break apart at a time and then the next.
Try it. I put a test-JPG and the traced SVG on http://hagoschaos.de/test/
Regards, Hago
Hago Ziegler wrote:
Jasper van de Gronde schrieb:
It should be a method which allows me to break apart all paths at once.
For me, break apart does just that (it breaks apart the selected paths).
I tried it several times, under different conditions - no chance. It only worked, when I selected only one path to break apart at a time and then the next.
Try it. I put a test-JPG and the traced SVG on http://hagoschaos.de/test/
No problem, perhaps were still not fully understanding eachother. I uploaded the result to: http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/sa-test-apart.svgz What I did was: - Select all (Ctrl+A) - Ungroup (Shift+Ctrl+G) - Path\Break apart
Jasper van de Gronde schrieb:
What I did was:
- Select all (Ctrl+A)
- Ungroup (Shift+Ctrl+G)
- Path\Break apart
Very good. I could repeat it and also regroup the elements separately.
My mistake was, that I always tried to select the paths with the node-tool(F2). I could select only one.
Thank you very much.
The only remaining problem is, that some things now look different: hollow forms are filled now. Theoretically I know, what I should do, but practically I don't know, how to reach both concerned paths at the same time, to recombine them.
Regards, Hago
Hago Ziegler wrote:
... The only remaining problem is, that some things now look different: hollow forms are filled now. Theoretically I know, what I should do, but practically I don't know, how to reach both concerned paths at the same time, to recombine them.
Shouldn't it work to simply select the two paths and use Combine? (I can imagine it could be a bit hard to find the right paths though)
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