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Old 12-11-2011, 01:45 PM   #3
Jellby
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Originally Posted by DSpider View Post
if you replace the writing with actual text (you need to make it searchable or something?), you'll lose the corroded effect, which I think works great for older stuff.
I don't want to be actual search, but if I find a font that looks the same, I can easily convert it to vector, or higher resolution. As for the corroded effect, I think it's mostly due to the old printing it was scanned from, rather than intentional. I

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Alternatively, Inkscape itself can trace.
Yes, I have tried it, and it "looks" fine, but I'd like to get cleaner paths: rectangles for the frame, etc. With a lot of patience (and practice) I could manually trace it myself, but I wondered if someone else would find it entertaining
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