Export to bitmap

Post by **Olle** » Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:53 pm

I want to use some of my vector drawings as illustrations, and I have been trying to figure out how to export them as, for example, jpeg. Can't find a feature like that and a screen dump is too small, so is there a way to export and set the bitmap size?

Post by **Rcnewcomb** » Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:55 pm

Export as PDF should work well if you want to keep them scalable. What are you going to do with them after you have exported them: put them in a PowerPoint or on a web site?

Post by **Olle** » Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:11 pm

I found the PDF function, and it won't really work for what I want to do. I'm planning to doctor them up in Paint Shop and post them on a web site, so it needs to be a bitmap.

Post by **Rcnewcomb** » Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:26 pm

post them on a web site, so it needs to be a bitmap

Actually, SVG format work well with web sites.

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<object id="svg1" data="Test.svg" type="image/svg+xml"></object>

</body>
</html>

Post by **Rcnewcomb** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:12 am

You can also treat the SVG file like any other image and use the <img></img> tags

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<img src="Test.svg" alt="Test Vectors">

Post by **Olle** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:16 am

I just checked Paint Shop, and svg is not on the list of files it can open. I might just go with a screen dump.

Post by **Ms Wolffie** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:25 am

Tiff or png is scaleable.

Post by **Olle** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 3:42 am

Ms Wolffie wrote:Tiff or png is scaleable.

You mean there's a way to export to those formats?

Post by **martin54** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 4:34 am

Not familiar with Paint Shop but will it import PDF files? If it does then have you tried printing to PDF rather than exporting as a PDF file.

Post by **highpockets** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 4:45 am

Some sort of picture of what you're trying to do might help.

I took a Preview Toolpaths, saved as png using Save Preview Image, brought it into paint.net, removed the background, cropped to suit and saved the file.

Post by **Adrian** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:40 am

If you set the preview background to a solid colour rather than shaded in options and then save a preview image as a PNG it's given a transparent background automatically.

Post by **Olle** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:02 pm

highpockets wrote:Some sort of picture of what you're trying to do might help.

I took a Preview Toolpaths, saved as png using Save Preview Image, brought it into paint.net, removed the background, cropped to suit and saved the file.

Happy Halloween.png

It's not exactly what I had in mind. I need to use a simple black and white line drawing for clarity, and I also want to fill certain areas to show a step by step machining sequence (like 1st step yellow, 2nd step red and so on). Won't be back in the shop until Saturday, but I think I'll try the pdf option and see if I can convert that to a bitmap (for example here: https://pdf2jpg.net/). I have an older version of Paint Shop Pro (PSP 7) and I believe it can use dxf format, just haven't figured it out yet.

Post by **Adrian** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:42 pm

If it's something you'll be doing often it would be best to switch to using a vector rather than bitmap drawing/painting program such as Inkscape, Coreldraw, Illustrator, Xara etc.

I use Xara for that sort of thing and working with vectors gives much, much better results as there are no artifacts from scaling etc.

Post by **highpockets** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 3:47 pm

Adrian wrote:If you set the preview background to a solid colour rather than shaded in options and then save a preview image as a PNG it's given a transparent background automatically.

Thanks Adrian, had not tried that, works like a charm!!!

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