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Asked by ebony gardner on 2016-09-29

I have a image that's for a school, we are trying to make car decals with. I have scanned the image to the computer and saved it as a SVG file, but when I email the image it comes out black. HELP!! What can I do to get this fixed??

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Last query:: 2016-10-02

Last reply:: 2016-10-17

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said on 2016-10-02:

Hi Ebony Gardner,

Problem 1:

I don't know about emailing, but I know there's currently a problem with printing from Inkscape, that turns everything black that is transparent when you print directly from the program.

Also, Adobe software seems to have a problem with png transparencies...

Can you describe what exactly is being done with your image (from the scanning to the person who opens the file) in a step-by-step fashion, mentioning all file formats along the way, so I've got a chance to understand what might be happening?
Please also mention your and the other person's operating system, and the Inkscape version(s) / other programs being used.

Problem 2:

opening a pixel-based image (a scan, a photo, or anything that's saved as jpg, png, bmp, tiff,...) in Inkscape and saving it as SVG will not magically turn it into a vector image, but will only put the pixel image file into the SVG file.

If you need a vector drawing to be able to cut out your decals with a cutting software, you will need to either draw the picture in Inkscape to get a vector image, consisting of curves and nodes, or you will need to learn how to trace an image, using the built-in tracing function.

Please report back with more details, so we can try to help you solve your problem.

Kind Regards,
Maren

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ebony gardner (ebonygardner85) said on 2016-10-02:

Well the image was a pdf file in the begininng and I used inkscape .09 and converted or thought I converted the image to a svg file. I then emailed the image through Gmail as a SVG file, on my end it was as I had saved it, but on their end the image was blacked out. I then tried to convert the image to a png file and on my end it converted, but thrn same thing once it was emailed.

How can I use the tracing function??

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said on 2016-10-02:

Ebony, thank you for your answer.

Do you know which program the people you sent the file use to open it?
Can you upload the pdf file and the SVG somewhere and post a link?

Here are a couple of tutorials for the autotracing function:
https://inkscape.org/de/doc/tracing/tutorial-tracing.html
http://goinkscape.com/how-to-trace-a-photo-in-inkscape/
http://goinkscape.com/how-to-vectorize-in-inkscape/