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This article will describe how to stitch scan's from children's drawings (and later maybe) give advice on what kinds of drawings are easier to stitch. | This article will describe how to stitch scan's from children's drawings (and later maybe) give advice on what kinds of drawings are easier to stitch. | ||
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Our computer at work produces PDF from scans, a format you cannot import to Stitch Era. There are two paths: Either import the PDF to a drawing software or save the PDF in a picture format and directly import to Stitch Era. | Our computer at work produces PDF from scans, a format you cannot import to Stitch Era. There are two paths: Either import the PDF to a drawing software or save the PDF in a picture format and directly import to Stitch Era. | ||
Revision as of 18:18, 13 September 2017
Introduction
This article will describe how to stitch scan's from children's drawings (and later maybe) give advice on what kinds of drawings are easier to stitch.
Dealing with a PDF scan
Our computer at work produces PDF from scans, a format you cannot import to Stitch Era. There are two paths: Either import the PDF to a drawing software or save the PDF in a picture format and directly import to Stitch Era.
Tracing with either Inkscape or Illustrator has two major drawbacks. It will create one single path with a single color. Adding color to elements then means to make cuts in selected areas of the vector path and color.
Therefore we suggest translating the PDF into a PNG image file.
- Under Windows, you can use the commercial Adobe Acrobat Pro program (I don't know if the reader can export)
- Under Linux, either install ImageMagik or search for another solution.
Conversion with ImageMagik, using the command line:
convert -density 300 -quality 100 input.pdf output.png