PATH and Extracting an image

Hello, Kathryn

Welcome to Inkscape :)

First - is your clipart contain embedded bitmap images, that you want to extract?
If yes - simply specify full path (with name of file) to desired place for them (e.g. C:/Vector/image.png in MSWindows, or /home/kathryn/vector/image.png - if you are on Linux platform). Other words path is path to folder, where images will be saved through extraction.

Second - if you need just to save you clipart as bitmap you simply could do that from File->Export Bitmap (Shift+Ctrl+E)

see for reference

[1] http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/File-Export.html#File-Export-PNG
[2] http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Effects-Images.html#Effects-ExtractOneImage

Hope it will help you.

Actually I iport it into a vector file.
PATH to specified place on desktop is not what Inscape wants.
I should have spelled it in lowercase, "Path".
Path, in this case, means something entirely different, I think.
It could also be that mt specified PATH is not recognized.

What do you think?

Regards,
Kathryn

I just reread the help file and it seems that the specified path for the image to go is at hand.
It said that one must not just specify the path but one should specify the "destination"
as well or extracting won't work.
What is meant by "destination"? I specified a folder and it still didn't work.
But, when I then exported my Bitmap image, as you had written to do, it did append
.png to the jpeg image.
Perhaps, I am not understanding "extract an image".
What I want to do is extract the image of a man embedded in a white background.
Is "extract an image" what I need to do this? I want the man and not the white background.

Thanks,
Kathryn

Hi Katheryn

well... let's do it together.
1)I have some SVG with *embedded* bitmap. embedded mean, that such
bitmap *contain* in SVG itself, not apart from it! Please check it
(you see the red line, which underline the embedded)
link - http://smages.com/i/e0/8d/e08ddb1c6e302475c228e521409105ec.png
2) I select image, which I want to extract and go through
Extensions->Images->Extract Image.. , specify path, like c:/image
(without extension)
link - http://smages.com/i/f0/11/f011720a52a1267378b282f38305f213.png
3) voila - it appear as C:/image.png
link - http://smages.com/i/70/6b/706b3055855f6bed898e3ed75f0b6a08.png

That all. Now I have extracted bitmap.

As you say, you just *import* your bitmap to Inkscape. So, when you
select your image in Inkscape workspace, the bottom panel must show
smth like that:
link - http://smages.com/i/fd/60/fd6010dfe6f82012d068bf22d87e79db.png
(the red line) Is it?

And the last - did you try to remove the background? Select+Delete
must work there I think :) Then you could save it like bitmap or
vector.

Cheerz!

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