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I have a jpg file that is not very sharp as you can see in the upper left. I tried a couple of trace bitmap options but nothing came out very good, lots of little objects everywhere (upper right) and uneven paths, I tried the simplify command but it was still far from good. So I decided to do it by hand but not sure how I can get the double outline look for cutting.
So on the lower left I show part of the image and how many points there are even after I "simplify" d it. On the lower left I show just a path (thick 10 px) I made from my bezier tool that mimics it. So I like this path. I tried duplicating it and doing either outset or inset to try and get the "outline effect" so that I can cut this outline. Everything came out really far away from what I intended. Is there an easy way of doing this that I am missing? Just duplicating and moving doesn't work.
does that make sense? I just want to create a simple path like the one on the lower left but it be cut as an outline... I iuse inkscape and signcut and was wondering if anyone had any ideas. I could clean up the trace but will take forever. Also tracing each side of the outline will be very time consuming in order to make it evenly spaced.
Thanks!