Leave all the parameters as they are, and click apply.Under the single scan option in the Trace bitmap tab, use autotrace as the tracing method. I have one page with a vector drawing from an Inkscape PDF) that worked fine- but it is a black and white ornament, so no gradient.) I also know that the images only have to fit on an 8.5x 11 piece of paper ( the trim size for the book), with minimum scaling.Open the Trace Bitmap menu by navigating to Path>Trace Bitmap ( Shift+Alt+B).Import the raster image you want to trace.Steps to Vectorize an image (basic Trace Bitmap) In Inkscape, the tool that is used for vectorizing images is called Trace Bitmap, and the overall operation is called tracing images, or image tracing.

In this article we are going to explore how to vectorize (raster) images in Inkscape, also we will be building the vocabulary that is necessary for understanding the tool we are explaining. The digital world has been always displayed to us in a discrete way, in terms of 0’s and 1’s, bytes or pixels so, raster images were so popular (and still) because of their discrete nature, yet when vector images appeared on the stage, they really took the lights, vectors are different from rasters in their underlying mechanisms, where under the hood vectors are mathematical descriptions of paths and objects.

Inkscape vector image with gradient