Draconian wrote:
I pulled the svg into Inkscape and now I get a lot of gray trash on the ram's head and the wreath when I enlarge it. It appears to be artifacts left over from the trace. Perhaps we can combine elements of yours and mine and come up with a clear, crisp image that will scale properly. the stars and lettering are sharp now. Your thoughts?
ho hum, different time zones - another day
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gray trash of course is shading from the original bitmap image. Easy to get rid of by editing the bitmap. When it comes to the bit-map your image is a poor starting point, first thing I do is scale x2 and then it depends how much tidy-up is possible or worth while. Comes a point when it might be easier to redraw the whole thing.
However, a black on transparent vector -attached - exported as a png looks like this.
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The wreath and head are rendered individually using autotrace so these are groups in inkscape. Easy enough to delete and replace with your own. The text and stars are straight inkscape. The text is converted to paths for bending, so not editable as text.
edit: I read in one of the other posts that you can not open a svg in Gimp. That should not be correct. Unless, are you using OSX or maybe one of the Gimp 2.9.5 dev versions? Everything I use opens svg.