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    •   Quicktrace will convert a bitmap to a vector object   Fig 12
              without asking any questions. If that works then you
              are good to go. If not then undo and try something
              else.
           •   Centerline trace tries to find the centerline of your
              bitmap and removes the rest. It’s good for a bitmap
              that is of a line drawing where you want to convert
              the line drawing to a vector object.
           Outline trace tries to find the outline of your bitmap.

           •   Centerline and outline give you various choices (see
              image). The first is what kind of art you start with.
              Ideally, you simply select whatever type of bitmap
              it is. The other two things you should play with are
              detail and smoothing. Usually you will want to delete
              the original image and remove the background but
              there are times when that’s not what you want.
           •   I should mention that the kind of bitmap I have
              selected here is probably not going to make a good
              object. It’s more for line art and logos. If you were
              to look closely at the conversion of the bitmap you
              would find that it has create hundreds (thousands?)
              of arbitrary regions which it has filled with different
              colors. I have yet to find anything I could do to such
              an object that I couldn’t do with the original bitmap.
              Still -- pretty nifty! In this case, I only wanted to show
              the dialog box, not the result so it’s OK.
           Step 10: Ordering objects (Fig 12&13)
           •  Drawings with multiple objects have the objects in
              a sort of a stack. You can think of this stack as the
              printing order. Everything prints for “Bottom” to “Top”    Fig 13
              so the top most objects will obscure the bottom most
              objects.
           •   You  can  change  this  order  by  selecting Arrange-
              >order and then select the change you want to make.
           •   Or you can see how everything “stacks up” by going
              to tools->object manager (see image). This creates
              a pane on the right hand side that lists all the objects
              and shows their order (see image). You can change
              their order by dragging them around. You can also
              select an object by clicking on it and multiple objects
              by clicking on them with the shift key.

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