Making a jpg file

[bcondon]

I have a friend that wants a Keltic knot cut in 13 panels and she has a font program that will produce the font.

I printed the knot on paper (from a word doc) and then scanned the knot in because I want to trace the knot with partworks and how I plan to do that is create a jpg.

Well, with printing and scanning, the image is not very crisp.

Does anyone know a way to create a JPG file directly from word or any ideas to get a crisp copy?

Many thanks

[navigator7]

On a Mac you hit command shift 4 and capture a jpeg of your screen.
Do you need such detail if you are tracing?

[rb99]

Get her to give you the font she makes.

Then just type what you want in your program.

You may want to trace the bitmap and clean up those lines.

Corel and Flexisign are 2 programs I know that will do that. (autotrace and vector editing)

RIB

[bob_s]

If she has the font, make the file she wants in Illustrator or Corel, or... and convert the font to "paths". Save it as an Adobe Illustrator AI file or one of the other compatible file types. You may have to add a color to the type, not just an empty path. You can then import this vector art into partworks. No tracing needed. This is the accurate way to do it. You can then node edit to "fix up" the vectors as many of these decorative fonts have gaps and redundant pieces, but it's a lot easier than tracing it.

[shoeshine]

I'll second richard. You will get far better results by typing the font into a vector editing software. If it is a truetype or opentype font you can use it directly in partworks.

[erik_f]

alt + print screen...then paste
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