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I have a lace background paper that is made up of flowers that I am trying to figure out how to cut with SCAL.

It was a PNG file. I opened it in Inkscape and have turned it into a SVG file and tried to import it into SCAL to cut it and when I try, it is just a red box with nothing in it. I've tried everything I can think of...can anyone help me figure this one out? I've tried to to trace to bitmap and I don't think I quite know how to do that because the trace to bitmap box never goes away. I click "ok" and then close it...is that right?

It's a digital scrapbooking file that I downloaded as a "freebie" so I'm so sure it's ok to share it if anyone wants to try it for me

Thanks,
Shawn

if you want to email me the file, I can take a look at it.

Thank you, I just sent it. It's the JPG file.

I took a look at it.

It's workable, but with a lot/a bit of work. there are a large number of nodes that need to be deleted from the design because we're not starting with a solid color image. the nodes that need to be delete are quite errant all over the design and there are a good number of lines that overlap, etc. this is a lot more evident if you view the file in outline mode in inkscape.

I would try to fix it for you, but I don't have time these days as I'm back in school full time.

all I did:
*open file in inkscape
*click on the file
*click: path: object to path: trace bitmap (set brightness cutoff threshold to 0.99)
*save as an svg file

could be that you're just deleting the wrong image or you didn't select the image before tracing it (path: object to path, etc)

make sense?

Is this spam?

I was thinking the same thing earlier. I always check Active posts when I'm here and there were about 10 posts from this same person.

I have sent Todd an email and hope he might be able to get rid of this problem.

Raewyn

Excellent work once again from Todd and his team.
They have removed the user and his spam messages throughout the board here.
Raewyn