Alan,
Glad that is what you were looking for. My process was:
- Use Google to find the highest resolution image of the logo you want. You can have Google filter images by clicking on the “Tools” button in the image search window:
Then you can select “Size” ==> “Large”:
That will get you the highest resolution images and filter out the lower resolution images.
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Import it into Inkscape, and for this specific image, it made sense to use the “Brightness Cutoff” option in the “Path” ==> “Trace Bitmap” command.
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I just guessed at the font for the “Whangamata” and Century Gothic seemed close enough, so I went with it.
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The last thing (that I forget to do as well) is to convert the text to a vector by selecting the text, then select “Path” ==> “Object to Path”. It is now no longer editable text. It is set of combined closed paths. To separate them into individual letters, you must use “Path”==>“Break Apart” instead of the “Object”==>“Ungroup” command. Then re-select individual parts of a letter like the inside of the R, P, O and Q letters, and then group them together so they are easier to move each letter if you want. Usually, because I want to be able to change the text later, I will make a copy of the text and then convert one copy to a path, and keep the other text.
The cool thing about that is, the g-code generating program I use (Makercam, mostly, but Vectric V-Carve as well) doesn’t see the text, so it is “invisible” when I am converting the file to g-code.
I love Inkscape because of the many commands you can use to align, group, ungroup, snap, center, copy, distribute evenly. . . .
Anyway, glad I could help out, and don’t forget to show us your completed project.