Why is bounding box too small?

slipperflipper · Postby **slipperflipper** » Tue Jul 24, 2018 3:38 am

Hello all!

Can you tell me how to increase the size of the bounding box? For instance, the left wing of the bird is just outside the bounding box, causing traces to be off.

[This is related to the question I posted the other day, but not the same. ]

Thank you!

tylerdurden · Postby **tylerdurden** » Tue Jul 24, 2018 4:14 am

I'd check the preferences to see if the bounding box is set to geometric... setting to visual may work.

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Polygon · Postby **Polygon** » Tue Jul 24, 2018 4:21 am

@ tylerdurden. From my experience this won´t have any effect on loaded raster images - just vector drawings.

Cheers

slipperflipper · Postby **slipperflipper** » Tue Jul 24, 2018 4:39 am

tylerdurden wrote:I'd check the preferences to see if the bounding box is set to geometric... setting to visual may work.

Thanks for your quick and thoughtful responses!

I tried this and it had no affect. I can't believe I'm the only one with this issue! I must have something set wrong. Should I reinstall or is there a way to reset all settings to defaults?

Thanks again!

Polygon · Postby **Polygon** » Tue Jul 24, 2018 4:43 am

Any chance you can upload the Inkscape file?

slipperflipper · Postby **slipperflipper** » Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:12 am

@Polygon -- yes, sure! Any general guidance on where it is located?

Postby **brynn** » Tue Jul 24, 2018 10:02 am

I think Polygon means to upload your SVG file with the raster image already imported.

Of course I don't know the source of your raster images. It's possible you would have no control over this. But whenever I'm saving a file, I almost always make sure I save at least just 5 or 10 pixels outside the edges, just to make sure something like this doesn't happen.

If you aren't creating the raster images yourself, I guess you'd need to use a raster editor (such as GIMP) to add a little extra space around the image - create a margin, in other words. Then Trace Bitmap can "see" the edges more clearly. Or maybe use a different option besides Edge Detection, in Trace Bitmap?

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