Enhance or redraw an image for printing

[Martyn Folkes]

I'm looking for easy options again. The attached image of a flowchart needs to be printed on A4 for display. As you can see it is very blurry and doesn't print well at all. Is there an easy way to trace the layout? I have extracted the text using Claude AI, so I can add that back in fairly easily with text boxes aft er the flowchart itself has been cleaned up.

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[Alfred]

6 minutes ago, Martyn Folkes said:

Is there an easy way to trace the layout?

It doesn't look as though there's much to trace! Apart from the round-cornered rectangle for the Start box, it's entirely composed of rectangles, diamonds, and straight lines with arrowheads. It shouldn't prove difficult or time-consuming to redraw.

[thomaso]

"Looking for easy" 😉 …

… etc.

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

It shouldn't prove difficult or time-consuming to redraw.

Please see the attached to get you started. At the top right of the chart I've added a set of swatches for the colours, together with YES/NO diamonds; I've also added the title in Open Sans Bold (not an exact match, but close enough) and I've added the START button plus the first few rectangles and copies of the diamonds. I'll leave it to you to add the remaining shapes and populate them with text as appropriate, and then all you should need to do is draw connecting lines with arrowheads.

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[Martyn Folkes]

3 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Please see the attached to get you started

That is amazing, thank you @Alfred. I've been playing with tracing apps and wasting my time with them. As you said, there isn't much to trace. Your approach helps a lot, because it shows a methodology that makes sense to me. Many thanks. (My wife emailed this to me first thing this morning from her school and I've been on it ever since. I'm sure I should be doing other things 🙂)

[Alfred]

I’m glad to be able to help, Martyn. Good luck with the rest of the project!

[Martyn Folkes]

I ended up drawing it from scratch in Designer. I learned a lot. However, before I used Designer, I tried using vectoizer.ai and ended up with an .svg with the text included. When I opened it in Inkscape I got this:

But when I opened it in Designer, I got this:

As you can see, in Designer all the text is bunched up in one place. It is all in the layers panel as separate layers for each chunk of text. 

Is this a bug?

[Alfred]

23 minutes ago, Martyn Folkes said:

As you can see, in Designer all the text is bunched up in one place. It is all in the layers panel as separate layers for each chunk of text. 

Is this a bug?

It certainly looks like one! 

[Martyn Folkes]

12 minutes ago, Alfred said:

It certainly looks like one! 

But is the bug in AD or in the SVG and Inkscape is just more tolerant?

[Alfred]

An SVG file comprises plain text, so you can inspect the code by opening the file in a text editor such as Notepad (or Notepad++, which has the advantage of including syntax highlighting). Someone who’s familiar with SVG code might be able to spot the cause of the problem.

[Martyn Folkes]

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