dreaded double lines
dreaded double lines
Desparately trying to use precious moments or imported colouring book pic in SCAL but cannot get rid of those double lines!! I have searched almost every blog to find answer - tried inkscape and break apart too many pieces, tried moving the nodes way too hard for more than one letter.Anyone help please? Has to be easier than this.
Re: dreaded double lines
I have absolutely no clue about inkscape etc but I did see Susan posted something about breaking the image apart to get rid of the double lines.
See her post about pop up butterfly. Might be what you are looking for
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See her post about pop up butterfly. Might be what you are looking for
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Re: dreaded double lines
I can only do it if it's a VERY simple image. I've never had any success with images that have a lot of details. When I look for images I usually do a search for silhouettes. Then I have great success! Good luck!
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Re: dreaded double lines
I did say i was not going to do blog lessons but i did this one
http://susanbluerobot.blogspot.com/2008 ... ouble.html
Hope this helps please keep in touch and let me know how you go with it PLEASE
http://susanbluerobot.blogspot.com/2008 ... ouble.html
Hope this helps please keep in touch and let me know how you go with it PLEASE
Re: dreaded double lines
Thanks Susan - don't ever underestimate how much you help everyone of us!!!
I have managed to do most of that but I think I am expecting too much! Sometimes there is one outline sometimes double lines which converge back to one line or also can cross over etc etc. so it becomes hard to eliminate some of the nodes. How do you eliminate a node completely? Do you keep using - node until the last one and they eventually all go? (Usually I give up before I get right to the end.)
All I really hoped to do was get a simple colouring picture and break apart the bits so I could cut it out on my cricut. Do you think the double lines have anything to do with the thickness of the outline on original picture? I find a lot of the CK fonts also have double lines so for the moment have decided to limit myself to simple fonts and enjoy that part.
Anyways thanks again you are all so wonderful to share your knowlege with us.
I have managed to do most of that but I think I am expecting too much! Sometimes there is one outline sometimes double lines which converge back to one line or also can cross over etc etc. so it becomes hard to eliminate some of the nodes. How do you eliminate a node completely? Do you keep using - node until the last one and they eventually all go? (Usually I give up before I get right to the end.)
All I really hoped to do was get a simple colouring picture and break apart the bits so I could cut it out on my cricut. Do you think the double lines have anything to do with the thickness of the outline on original picture? I find a lot of the CK fonts also have double lines so for the moment have decided to limit myself to simple fonts and enjoy that part.
Anyways thanks again you are all so wonderful to share your knowlege with us.
Re: dreaded double lines
I've not tried it, but I would think filling in an image (before doing trace bitmap) would get rid of the double lines...
For example, if you had a circle (outline form, like you would expect to see in a coloring book), then it creates the double lines because it tries to do a path to cut out the "black parts". But if you filled it in so the whole circle is black (and not just outlined), then the path it traces woul just be the outside of the circle.
For example, if you had a circle (outline form, like you would expect to see in a coloring book), then it creates the double lines because it tries to do a path to cut out the "black parts". But if you filled it in so the whole circle is black (and not just outlined), then the path it traces woul just be the outside of the circle.
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Re: dreaded double lines
Hi Ruth
I have just been doing some images in Inkscape with the same problem.
I was able to delete some duplicate lines using Susan's method but others won't remove that way. So I went to the Nodes mode and if I could delete it I would but in most cases the line starts to skew all over the place so I dragged each node (the square shape) from one line on to the other line and that pretty much solved the problem.
The cricut still cut two cuts if the lines weren't perfectly overlapping but they were so close it wasn't an issue for me.
I don't know of any other way when you can't make the image into a coloured image as suggested by Mickey
raewyn
I have just been doing some images in Inkscape with the same problem.
I was able to delete some duplicate lines using Susan's method but others won't remove that way. So I went to the Nodes mode and if I could delete it I would but in most cases the line starts to skew all over the place so I dragged each node (the square shape) from one line on to the other line and that pretty much solved the problem.
The cricut still cut two cuts if the lines weren't perfectly overlapping but they were so close it wasn't an issue for me.
I don't know of any other way when you can't make the image into a coloured image as suggested by Mickey
raewyn
Re: dreaded double lines
thanks! I too can get the nodes (and therfore the lines) to overlap especially if I enlarge up the picture (easier to see what you are doing) but I had assumed it would be too hard to get them directly on top of each other and they would still cut 2 lines - but as you said close enuf is probably good enuf for it to be the same cut!! I will keep trying.
Well done. Each little clue is another one closer to the answer... Wish we got automatic authorization no. I hate this waiting to be able to cut and am sick of cutting out only to throw away!!
Well done. Each little clue is another one closer to the answer... Wish we got automatic authorization no. I hate this waiting to be able to cut and am sick of cutting out only to throw away!!