jfoerch

Hey all. New to this forum and new to this topic in general. I have a file where I took someone's handwriting and converted it via photoshop into a .bmp or .jpg or whatever file. Now I'm trying to get that file set up for cutting on a vinyl cutter. I learned that the file is a raster file rather than a vector file so I downloaded inkscape in order to convert it. But, I really have no idea what I'm doing. I'm really hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I imported the file into Inkscape, right clicked on it and selected trace. After messing with a few things, I seem to have gotten a results that appears to be correct. If I click on the "edit paths by node" button, all of the nodes and vectors show up. So I saved the file as various file types and tried to load them into the vinyl cutter and I just get a blank box. The cutter is a Faber and the software it is running is called Gemini CP. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? I exported the file as a png and am attaching it for reference. I tried to attach the actual inkscape file but it was too large. I also saved it as a .fxg, .svg, .wmf and .xaml which I can attach if needed but all the files seem to be too large. Thanks in advance.

Thanks to all for the help, you guys are super great!!! I did find that I never deleted the old image from the file, so now that's done. But then I took that file and the one provided by SkareKrow and tried to import the eps file into the Gemini CP program for the cutter. That didn't work, I get a dialog box that asks if I want to load all the items as editable object or something like that. So, then I tried to export the file as a png and when I open that in Gemini, I just get a small empty box (both with my file that had the original image removed and the file from Skarekrow). So, then I took the file from SkareKrow and saved it as multiple different file types that Gemini says it can import. Only one of those file types worked, the .emf file. When I open that in the Gemini program, I finally see the text, it's just very small. So, I scaled it to make it bigger and it looks OK, but really choppy like the image resolution got way worse. Any other thoughts? If I take the file above from SkareKrow in inkscape, what should be my steps from there? I'm usually really good at this stuff, I just can't figure out if I'm missing a step or something. Thanks again!