![]() In my work I need to alter drawings which contain mostly constant-width Paths (like curved C tool pen-strokes. Then importing that into Inkscape and doing centreline trace - it did seem to give improved results, perhaps because the lines were closer together to begin with. I also tried opening the image in GIMP, enlarging it to 5000px + width, selecting by colour then shrinking the selection until the smallest lines in the image ( the lines in the eyes ) still had an unbroken selection. It was slightly better I think, but it produced a lot of random tabs that poked out. I also ran it through a free program called F-Engrave which runs a v-bit ( cone shaped tool ) between the two lines, a cone should vary in depth but always give centre. This worked in Ubuntu Inkscape 1.0.1, but crashed Windows Inkscape 1.0.1 I found that creating the bitmap (alt+b) from a 3000px wide version of the SVG did improve things. Want to learn more about how Inkscape works? Check out the Inkscape Master Class – a comprehensive series of over 60 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function in Inkscape and explain what it is, how it works, and why it’s useful.I had a few attempts at centreline tracing the fox yesterday. And considering that certain premium vector editors do not come with an equivalent, it’s quite impressive that the Inkscape team was capable of producing such a powerful feature. ![]() The Trace Bitmap feature in Inkscape is a useful tool that will certainly come in handy for you at some point. Once you are satisfied with the preview of your tracing, press the Apply button to generate it and you are done! In Conclusion Once again, there are settings sliders below that can be adjusted to tweak the tracing to your liking.
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