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how do i edit/auto trace an image please?
Please can somebody point me in the right direction, we have been given a cartoon type image which we want to print and cut on our Versacamm the problem is that it is made up of all different colours and and some of the image has air swirls in it (hope this makes sense) the problem is when we try to edit/auto trace it picks up everything and effectively cuts it into lots of pieces can somebody please help. Thank Kevin
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Kevin
you dont mention the software you are using,
but I think you need to group all the image together then make a contour cut in the colour that is the cut line CutPath is a common name for the contour in some rip’s for instance.If you post the image so we can have a look see it may help
peter
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Here it is, I really would like to understand how to do this, a bit out of my league at the moment any help truly appreciated. Regards Kevin
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dunno if its just me but there is nothing in that file Kevin.
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same here 😕
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The file seems to be a Corel Draw format. I don’t use Corel so can’t help with that. If you have the original jpg, tif or bmp file of the cartoon (I presume that’s what you have?) we can help to sort it from there.
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file is empty, as Harry and Nicola found,
I dont think its a jpg as it does have cut lines.Peter
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Looked at the zip file and there is a tiny .bmp thumbnail file in there of a cartoon helicopter. Upload again?
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it is a file of a helicopter with text under it loads ok in corel may be you could export as a JPEG and load again.
I don’t have a printer like yours but on my edge I would have to manually place the cut line around the parts i need to cut, but as I am new to this as well I could be totally wrong, as my wife would tell you it wouldn’t be the first time.
cheers Mike -
Help again for some reason the upload button has disappeared from my post a reply page
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sorry Kevin
Not on mine either I had saved it as a PDF & was going to reload it for you but alas no button. -
I’ve just downloaded file and opened it ok in X4, I then selected the helicopter and used the boundary tool which produced a cut line around the perimeter.
I was using X4 with SP2
Alan D -
I just tried again and nothing in X3?
how strange
Peter
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opened fine and saved as version 11 but cannot post here
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It is an X4 file (Build 567 – latest version is 701) so will give a blank page in X3
Alan D -
Thanks so much to everybody who helped, I now know how to do this just so anybody out there wants to know I did as Alan said by using the boundary tool I haven’t print and cut yet but will let you know the outcome.
Thanks again – Kevin
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