Breaking apart a pdf originating in Adobe Acrobat

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I may have ask this before, bear with me….I have some drawings that were made in adobe acrobat originally. Many Many different items and all line drawings. When I put them into lightburn they are grouped of course and I do not remember a way to break them apart easily so I can edit certain areas. I don’t see how nodes etc can accomplish this when there are so many I need to edit.

test for wallet.lbrn2 (18.1 KB)

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You gave us an image. I converted it to vectors and cleaned it up (took about 15 minutes). I have seen much worse images.

  1. Fixed where the image had a weak line, leaving a gap.
  2. Removed the inner paths using the Scissors Tool.

You still have to ensure the sizes are correct and set your speeds and powers.

test for wallet - Vector.lbrn2 (196.0 KB)

Find a really cruddy image, do a Trace, and practice Node editing on it. You will learn a lot that way.

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Thanks Mikey,

I forgot about the Vector. These were designs drawn by someone else. I don’t think anyone pays much attention to details anymore.

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With the “Trace” tool you can select different sections of the image and work on each one individually. At least that’s what I would do.

How do you convert the image to vectors?

It’s probably a silly question, but a laugh is always good for the ego (of others). :innocent: :+1:

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There is a manual for it:

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can you post the pdf here?

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Trace tool does it. Once you Trace, it is no longer an image if it has “marching ants”.

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I knew it was a silly questions because I do precisely that so many times. :grin:
Just don´t call it “vetorize”. :innocent:
Thanks. :+1:

The ridiculous thing is that I even bothered to look for the “vectorize image” option or something like that. :rofl:

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