I’ve noticed that I have a few . SVG files that when I import the . SVG, I get the prompt to trace the image which I click… Yep… Trace it! But then I just get the workspace… And nothing happens.
It was originally a .jpeg and I clicked save as .SVG in Inkscape. Not certain if it may be that it truly didn’t convert to .SVG maybe???
Upload the file here?
Extract the pixel image and trace that directly?
I didn’t fully clean the file from all background elements but figured I would just let it trace and I’d select what I wanted out of it.
Which is odd as Inkscape will open it.
That’s not the file which you uploaded above.
I took a picture of the desktop with my phone and uploaded what the contents of what the .SVG is.
Please compress the file “gingerbread.svg” into a .zip archive and upload that here or e-mail it to support@carbide3d.com, or let us know the link of where you downloaded it from.
I often use Inkscape to convert bitmap images to svg. Everytime I import an Inkscape svg I get the question asked. I just say no.
Inkscape is free and open source. In the menu you can adjust the sensitivity to eliminate unwanted items to a point. So give Inkscape a try. There are tons of tutorials on youtube on how to use Inkscape which is a very power free program. I also create svg in Affinity Designer and when those are imported I get the same splash of do I want to trace the image. I guess it is just the default when you import an image?
Attachment has just been sent!
I did try to run the import and selected NO to the tracing option to verify behaviour and the file ultimately just does not open and I see nothing that even shows that an attempt was made to open it.
This is the most recent version of Inkscape I’m using to save the .jpegs as .svg files.
I was able to replicate the difficulty with no tracing option being afforded.
Used Inkscape to extract the pixel image:
and when imported for tracing:
once the Threshold is adjusted we get:
Trace Image
Ok
I’ll give that a shot! Thanks!!
I may be missing something with this… Did you mean Trace Bitmap function?
No, I extracted it and posted it as a separate image above.
Also just to add to hopefully clarify… When I select import, choose the image file I do get the prompt to trace the image. When I select to trace the image… It acts like I clicked on cancel or NO. The tracing window does not open at all.
My apologies if I didn’t explain the issue correctly.
Ok… face palm moment… rack it up to still learning the software…
Instead of importing the .SVG I used just the trace image function on the .jpeg file itself and I was able to get the same results as you pictured.
Annnnd now I know!
Knowing is half the battle, Go Joe
