heppnerguy Posted September 24, 2020 Report Share Posted September 24, 2020 I have some images that I downloaded and they will not open my trace bit map in inkscape, some will. Does the image have to be in jpg in order for this to work? If so, how do I go about changing the format to jpg from something else? I have done this many times but I can not remember how. Must be the problem some have with age. Can someone help me with this one? Dick heppnerguy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penquin Posted September 24, 2020 Report Share Posted September 24, 2020 if you have IrfanView, it is free, you open it there and can save it as a jpg. No problem, do it all the time when Rapid reszier won't open something. jim heppnerguy and OCtoolguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxfold Posted September 24, 2020 Report Share Posted September 24, 2020 (edited) If all else fails put pdf to jpeg, or whatever the format is that you have, into your search bar and it will come up with a free online converter. That's what I do anyway, works for me. Edited September 24, 2020 by Foxfold heppnerguy and OCtoolguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyred Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 You can also convert in gimp, if you have that. Tom OCtoolguy and heppnerguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadBob Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 Are these patterns pale grey? If they are gray, and the background is not pure white, Inkscape may not detect the lines. When this happens to me, I load the image into Gimp and edit it to produce a 2-bit image. Black and white only, not grayscale. Copy this back into Inkscape and trace it. OCtoolguy and heppnerguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted September 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 On 9/24/2020 at 1:04 PM, penquin said: if you have IrfanView, it is free, you open it there and can save it as a jpg. No problem, do it all the time when Rapid reszier won't open something. jim I will go see if I can find it and download it and check it out. Thank you so much for the information. Dick heppnerguy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted September 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 On 9/24/2020 at 1:17 PM, Foxfold said: If all else fails put pdf to jpeg, or whatever the format is that you have, into your search bar and it will come up with a free online converter. That's what I do anyway, works for me. Thank you. I tried this without any success. It looked like they were just trying to get me to download other things that I do not want, so I will try some of the other suggestions, instead. I do appreciate your advice but I am not too computer literate and don't like DL ing things I am unsure about Dick heppnerguy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted September 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 16 hours ago, BadBob said: Are these patterns pale grey? If they are gray, and the background is not pure white, Inkscape may not detect the lines. When this happens to me, I load the image into Gimp and edit it to produce a 2-bit image. Black and white only, not grayscale. Copy this back into Inkscape and trace it. I will copy you note above and put it in my 'how to' file on my hard drive Dick heppnerguy BadBob and OCtoolguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadBob Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 8 hours ago, heppnerguy said: I will copy you note above and put it in my 'how to' file on my hard drive Dick heppnerguy Did it work for you? OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted September 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 7 hours ago, BadBob said: Did it work for you? That was not my problem here. It seemed it had to do with the format I saved the photo with. I think I have it figured out not, if I don't forget Dick heppnerguy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted September 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 16 hours ago, heppnerguy said: I will copy you note above and put it in my 'how to' file on my hard drive Dick heppnerguy I have your information saved for future reference.. Thank you for your help Dick heppnerguy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted September 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 16 hours ago, heppnerguy said: I will go see if I can find it and download it and check it out. Thank you so much for the information. Dick heppnerguy I still have not checked out your information but will do that in a few minutes.. I really appreciate your help here. Dick heppnerguy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted September 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 On 9/24/2020 at 7:57 PM, jollyred said: You can also convert in gimp, if you have that. Tom I do and I thank you for the information. I did not know that. This is a very helpful thing for me to understand. Dick heppnerguy OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 17 hours ago, heppnerguy said: I will go see if I can find it and download it and check it out. Thank you so much for the information. Dick heppnerguy Dick, by all means, download and install Irfanview. It is a great program and nothing to afraid of. I have used it for many years. It is set as my default viewer on my computer so whatever picture I click on, it opens in Irfanview. You can do all sorts of manipulation with it and as mentioned, do a "save as" and it will convert and save whatever you want. Open a PDF and do a save as into jpeg. Simple as that. Just tell it where to save it. I always save everything to my desktop so I can find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadBob Posted September 27, 2020 Report Share Posted September 27, 2020 Both Gimp and Inkscape will import directly from PDF files. You don't need to convert them. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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