How to transform a picture to a given size

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How to transform a picture to a given size

Postby brainstuff » Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:30 am

I have a picture who is 1200 mm x 80 mm great. I want to transform it to 86 mm x 54 mm

Is this possible with Inkscape?

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Re: How to transform a picture to a given size

Postby brynn » Tue Apr 24, 2018 7:09 pm

Yes.

But you should know that if it's a raster image, it will become pixelated if you scale it. Inkscape is a vector editor, and not the best program for editing raster graphics.

You should also realize that those 2 sizes are not the same proportions - meaning that it will look stretched either side to side or top to bottom.

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Re: How to transform a picture to a given size

Postby shawnhcorey » Tue Apr 24, 2018 10:08 pm

If it's a raster image, you would be better off using a raster-image editor, like GIMP.

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Re: How to transform a picture to a given size

Postby brainstuff » Thu Apr 26, 2018 1:44 pm

a raster image editor can not correctely reduce or zoom graphic elements (letters, logos,.. )

When we zoom a point "." this will not give a big point"" o ") but the double of one point " . " is 4 points " :: ".

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Re: How to transform a picture to a given size

Postby shawnhcorey » Thu Apr 26, 2018 8:13 pm

brainstuff wrote:a raster image editor can not correctely reduce or zoom graphic elements (letters, logos,.. )

When we zoom a point "." this will not give a big point"" o ") but the double of one point " . " is 4 points " :: ".


Then what you want to do is convert the raster image to vector. Try Path -> Trace Bitmap...

Once it's in vector form, you can zoom any amount.

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Re: How to transform a picture to a given size

Postby brynn » Sat Apr 28, 2018 11:32 pm

brainstuff wrote:a raster image editor can not correctely reduce or zoom graphic elements (letters, logos,.. )

When we zoom a point "." this will not give a big point"" o ") but the double of one point " . " is 4 points " :: ".


I only gave a very brief answer, because unfortunately, we had to do a good deal of guessing about what kind of "picture" you were asking about. Usually when someone gives such brief info, they are talking about a JPG or photo.

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean about zooming on a "point". By "point", do you mean like a dot? (It's confusing, because some graphics programs use "points" to mean what Inkscape called "nodes", which are vector elements. But if you mean like dots, then I don't understand about the 4 points.

If you zoom in one a small dot, it will appear to be a big dot, or even a huge dot, not 4 dots.

So if you could clarify your question, with as much detail as possible, we could give a better answer. Please feel free to use images or screenshots, if it would help to make it clear.

(Or maybe by "point" you're referring to pixels???)


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