AutotraceSwitch_WIN_32bit

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2425

lylejk wrote:

As a side note, I tried your Autotrace compile in Win10; will not work. It first was missing a dll (don't recall which one). Found a copy but then it would just do nothing. Oh well; again, I have Autotrace for my XP VM and it still works there.

The error that is thrown up is a missing libexpat-1.dll

A couple of files which I got from the Fedora package mingw32-expat-2.1.0-6.fc21.noarch.rpm libexpat-1.dll xmlwf

This came about from a request to turn solid lines from some sort of overlay into dashed lines.

The obvious, redraw or create paths duplicating the shapes, was not received very well.

Using MareroQ's windows Autotrace, it is possible to centerline trace quite fine lines.

I did a demo of the process. https://youtu.be/UEQDOBI0cqQ 5 minutes

Strange country for me, Win10 and Gimp 2.8.16

Might come in useful some day.

MareroQ · **Posted:** Thu Jun 23, 2016 11:19 am **(#12)**

Thank You for the information.

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PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:34 pm **(#13)**

Running Windows 7 - 64b and was running into some errors. Then I re-read the posts, following the steps in detail. It works for Windows 7. I stroked the path on a transparent layer, with white (1 pixel wide) and set the stroked layer's Mode to Soft light. The second image is stroking the path with black on a white layer. Autotrace gives a lot of possibilities!

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PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Thu Jun 23, 2016 4:42 pm **(#14)**

I love the effect, especially when stroking the path to highlight the edges! I applied it to my Sunflower Droste.
Really love the edges!!

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