outline

[susan]

hello all quick question how can you get rid of the double outline. when you trace it looks great but when you open it inscal it has double outlines any help please

[jancy]

that's not an easy or quick fix in SCAL--if at all; nor is it in inkscape.

you can manipulate the nodes (think of dot to dot--the dots are the nodes in a file) in inkscape to make lines connect or delete nodes altogether.

so much depends on what exactly you're trying to trace. if it's an image, you can use the complete outline as a mat & the insides as pieces to paper piece. same thing with a font, but I just use fonts that don't have any shadows in them.

hope this makes sense.

if it's an image you're working on, feel free to email it to me & I'll see what I can do with it.
cacroppin@yahoo.com. If it's a font----I suggest using a solid font.

[susan]

thank you will have a go I have lots of wooden die that I used fpr paper pieceing was just seeing if I could copy and cut them using inscape and scal will send you one to see if it will work
susan

[susibi]

To trace satisfactorily you must have as solid an image as possible - tracing a line image no matter how fine will give you a double cut as Inkscape traces both sides of the line. You can eliminate this by cutting your dies in black paper and scanning them, saving as a jpeg and then tracing them in Inkscape.
Also what you see on a SCAL screen isn't always how it cuts - have you tried cutting your image? Sometimes I have had images coming up as a corner of a square and half a circle but it cut the complete image ok!
Susibi