Tips for Tracing

Keep the following in mind when tracing images.

• Bitmaps with few colors generally trace best. Use Picture Publisher to reduce the number of colors in a bitmap image before you trace.
• Grayscale images trace better than color images. Monochrome images, however, trace best of all.
• Don't trace bitmap text. Add text to a drawing with Designer's Text Tool . Scanned text and text added with an image editor are of lower quality.
• Simple, uncomplicated images trace better than complicated ones.
• Dark objects on light backgrounds are best. If you have a dark background, use Picture Publisher to lighten it before tracing.
• After tracing, you can reduce the number of points in the object. See "Reducing Points" for more information.