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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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