Pulling my hair out ~ SVG/Inkscape help?

[Angela333]

Any Inkscape gurus that would be willing to help me? This is probably a super easy fix, but Inkscape is not my first language (ha!) and I’ve been struggling, even after looking up tutorials.

I have a sheet music svg (posted below), and need to “crop” it to fit my project. I tried modifying it by:

1. using a square, choosing the part I wanted to keep, & selecting “path->clip”
2. manually selecting & deleting the actual nodes of the portion I didn’t want

Either way, Glowforge says “Print stopped” and “Filled Shape is Open…edit your artwork to remove the fill or close the shape.” or some other error. Note: I’ve engraved the unedited svg before, so I know the original file is fine (just my error in trying to modify it).

I’m attaching the original sheet music svg (that I purchased) and the one I tried to edit, to show the size I need.

If someone can help me with this, I would be SO grateful! TIA

[beerfaced]

It may be easier to use a program like paint.net to erase the parts you don’t want. The GF doesn’t work with masks or clipping and unless you use trace bit map in inkscape I don’t think you can remove part of it. Trace bit map will not do a very good job either.
Just my limited knowledge here…

[Angela333]

Paint.net? I clicked on that and it was just a parked domain(?)

[Deleted]

I fixed what I found wrong
I would highly suggest you do this as score

(well it is a score!)

It Is Well with My Soul (repaired).svg.zip (155.2 KB)

[Angela333]

“Score” ~ I see what you did there!

It looks like the file you posted is still the music sheet in its entirety…were you able to “crop”/modify it? Or am I missing something?

Thanks so much for your help!

[evansd2]

Clip it, then export the clipped art as a png.

Reimport the now clipped png into your svg and proceed. That’s all there is to it.

[Angela333]

@evansd2

Reimport the now clipped png into your svg

By that, do you mean import into Inkscape? I tried importing the cropped image/png into Inkscape and then did “trace bitmap” but it didn’t pick up all of the graphic (left out some of the lines of the music staffs & text is not totally legible)

[evansd2]

Yes but export it at high DPI And it’ll preserve all your details. Something like 600 dpi should be plenty high. It’s an option in the export dialog.

[Deleted]

I edited the file so its all one one page (I assumed that’s what you needed)
I also turned the text into outlines, so the quality is the highest possible
use the score setting that will give you the deepest black, and the cleanest ‘print’

[Deleted]

Angela, My .svg is ‘ready to print’ no further editing was needed.

Jonathan

[deirdrebeth]

@beerfaced

It may be easier to use a program like paint.net

Paint . net is the name of the program - their website is getpaint.net

@Deleted

My .svg is ‘ready to print’

Except it’s not the crop she requested

It Is Well with My Soul (repaired)_V2.zip (1.2 MB)

This has both @Deleted’s clean-up, and a high res bitmap copy, and it’s cropped as requested. Hopefully one of those help

[Deleted]

[beerfaced]

Yes, sorry about that. Somewhere along the way they changed to getpaint.net.
Here is the link. It is a great program.

https://www.getpaint.net/download.html#download

[Angela333]

Oh my gosh!!! I am doing a serious HAPPY DANCE over here!! It worked!! After futzing around with that darn file for HOURS, I am ESPECIALLY grateful for your help.

@deirdrebeth and @Deleted I sincerely appreciate your generosity in taking the time to work on this! You all are AWESOME.

I am attaching a photo (I engraved it on 1/4” maple ply). Now I only have 6 more of these music sheets to edit. @deirdrebeth going to send you a quick message.