fh and tracing

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Scott,

I too am a FreeHand freak!

Did you try changing the scale of your drawing to be traced?
Eventually rotation may also help... 

But I still prefer the tracing in Photoshop...

But in the end there is always some tweaking to do!



On 02.04.2004 07:28:16 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>On 3/31/04 10:19 PM, "Meitnik at aol.com" <Meitnik at aol.com> wrote:
>
>>> I'm
>>> familiar with Freehand's autotrace tool, but in my experience this 
usually
>>> rounds out edges making for slightly distorted looking linework.
>>> -- contact me off list. I might be able to help. Tracing was my baby 
when I
>>> was testing fh 3./fog 4. at Altsys.
>
>That's pretty cool.  I'm very much a Freehand guy.  In any event, I have
>never been able to accomplish pixel level accuracy when tracing a bitmap.
>In other words, if I use a 72DPI image where you can see the jagged edges 
of
>a curve or whatever, Freehand always seems to want to "help" by smoothing
>out the jagged edges, regardless of the "tight" etc settings.  On the 
other
>hand, the autotrace tool in SuperCard used to trace a bitmap exactly, 
down
>to the jagged curves.  If you have any suggestions for getting Freehand 
to
>trace bitmaps this way, I would dig on knowing how to do it.
>
>Thanks & Regards,
>
>Scott Rossi
>Creative Director
>Tactile Media, Development & Design
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