![]() Full Circle Magazine #95: The Colour tab of the Tiled Clones dialog.Full Circle Magazine #94: The Scale, Rotation and Blur & Opacity tabs of the Tiled Clones dialog.Full Circle Magazine #93: Using the “Create Tiled Clones” dialog.Full Circle Magazine #92: The advantages of combining clones with clipping and masking.Full Circle Magazine #91: XML Editor (to fix an issue with clones).Full Circle Magazine #90: Clones continued: using “unset” fills and strokes.Full Circle Magazine #89: Clones continued: creating mirrored or kaleidoscopic effects.Full Circle Magazine #88: Introducing clones.Full Circle Magazine #87: Eraser tool and Connectors tool.Full Circle Magazine #84: Zoom tool, plus other zooming tips.Full Circle Magazine #83: Tweak tool continued (node tweaks).Full Circle Magazine #82: Tweak tool (object tweaks).Full Circle Magazine #81: Colouring a black & white trace.Full Circle Magazine #80: Trace Bitmap dialog continued (multiple scans, colour tracing).Full Circle Magazine #79: Single scan (black & white) tracing using the Trace Bitmap dialog.Full Circle Magazine #78: Manually tracing a cartoon sketch, continued (Pencil tool, Calligraphy tool).Full Circle Magazine #77: Manually tracing a cartoon sketch (Bézier tool).Full Circle Magazine #76: Manually tracing a logo (Guidelines, snapping, colour picker).Full Circle Magazine #75: Using bitmap graphics.Full Circle Magazine #72: Saving to different formats.Full Circle Magazine #71: Text tool continued: controls on the toolbar.Full Circle Magazine #70: The text tool.Full Circle Magazine #69: Layers and blend modes.Full Circle Magazine #68: Selections and groups.Full Circle Magazine #67: Paths and Boolean operations.Full Circle Magazine #66: Introducing paths.Full Circle Magazine #65: Fill & Stroke dialog continued.Full Circle Magazine #64: The colour palette, and the Fill & Stroke dialog.Full Circle Magazine #63: The status bar.Full Circle Magazine #62: Basic keyboard shortcuts.Full Circle Magazine #61: Getting started.Full Circle Magazine #60: Prequel – About vector graphics and the SVG file format.If you are planning to work through the tutorials from the start then the Special Editions may be more useful: these are listed at the bottom of the page. The individual articles are listed first, in case you only want some reference material for a single topic. So it makes sense to host an index here, on my own site. I used to maintain an index of the articles at the semi-official Inkscape forum, however that has been offline for several weeks now, and may never return. Both these and the original magazines are available to download free of charge. Many of the articles have also been collated into “Special Editions”. In this website you can find some examples of the operation of mkbitmap.For several years I have been writing a monthly column about the Free vector graphics program Inkscape, for Full Circle Magazine. ![]() ![]() It is particularly useful for converting scanned line art, such as cartoons, handwritten text, etc., to high-resolution bilevel images. There is an utility called mkbitmap which converts color or greyscale images into a format suitable as input for other programs, particularly the tracing program Potrace. ![]() Rather than trying to simplify the vector image, it often helps to just downscale the input bitmap. This also sometimes happens if the input is speckly or noisy. If the resolution of your input file is incredibly high, the output generated by Potrace might be larger than necessary. In some cases, it also helps to decrease the resolution of the input image. Scan your image in greyscale, and use a program such as mkbitmap to generate a high-resolution bitmap to trace. The most effective way to do so is to improve the quality of the input!. How can I improve the quality of the output of Potrace? Using a GUI sometimes is more comfortable that using command line, it is more interactive, and it will easy for you to try different the settings. ![]() It collects informations in an easy way (hopefully) and then it launches potrace or autotrace with all the relevant options. I recommend you to download the GUI interface for potrace and autotrace, which contains two algorithms for tracing bitmapped images. ![]()
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