Re: [Emc-developers] Screen Captures workflow to pic to svg to g-code

2011-11-29 Thread Sammel Lothar
workflow jpg tosvg to gcode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI7uj-6KgyE Am 29.11.2011 14:29, schrieb John Thornton: Can you give me a bit more info on how you do that? I imported the png file but don't see how to convert it to svg. John On 11/29/2011 7:21 AM, Sammel Lothar wrote: incscape

Re: [Emc-developers] Screen Captures workflow to pic to svg to g-code

2011-11-29 Thread John Thornton
Thanks, that actually gave me an option for my plasma machine too that I didn't know existed. John On 11/29/2011 8:52 AM, Sammel Lothar wrote: workflow jpg tosvg to gcode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI7uj-6KgyE Am 29.11.2011 14:29, schrieb John Thornton: Can you give me a bit more

Re: [Emc-developers] Screen Captures workflow to pic to svg to g-code

2011-11-29 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
I think it's a mistake to convert bitmaps (such as screenshots) to svg. It will distort the image and will not add resolution. I think you'll get better results if you take a full-resolution screen capture and use that. But don't let my opinion stop you from looking for yourself ;-) On

Re: [Emc-developers] Screen Captures workflow to pic to svg to g-code

2011-11-29 Thread John Thornton
Having all ready tried that I can confirm that saving a screen capture as a svg does make it more fuzzy but not in a warm way. John On 11/29/2011 10:01 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I think it's a mistake to convert bitmaps (such as screenshots) to svg. It will distort the image and will