Post #1017111

2026-04-06 17:10 UTC

[Edit: I&#39;m okay on this for now, thanks!] I have a handful of images in this style, but I only scans of physical media; the original files are lost or inaccessible. I’d like to have SVGs of these, but all the converters I’ve tried produce very poor results. Given the geometric style, it seems like it should be easy-ish to trace in Inkscape or whatnot. Are there people I can pay to do this conversion? How do I find them, and what should I expect it to cost? Better yet: are *you* this person?

Replies (10)

@thedaemon@snac.9front.club 2026-04-07 13:27

How many images do you have? I might could do this.

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@a@pdx.social 2026-04-06 17:10

(When I say the converters give poor results, it’s entirely possible I just don’t know how to use the more complicated ones, like all the options in Inkscape, properly. No shade intended at the makers of those things; it’s a hard job to do in the general case.)

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@a@pdx.social 2026-04-07 14:16

I spent some time on this in Inkscape yesterday, and I’m 90% sure that, at least for me, I could get there faster doing the SVG by hand then learning inscape well enough, although I’m not sure which is better for me long-term.

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@micahblachman@typo.social 2026-04-06 18:50

@a I tried with QuiverAI's SVG-generation model, and the results were not great. It seems to struggle most with text, as do many image generators.

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@wookieeboy@hachyderm.io 2026-04-06 19:50

@a I’ve done a lot of this type of stuff in a previous life, and pre-AI, and the human eye really is the best path forward. Someone who knows what is actually happening there can break it down in to different layers and how they interact and make it much better than an AI could. That said, I have no idea where to find useful humans for the conversion work.

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@bigblen@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-04-07 10:38

@a you might reach more likely people with you request if you add the #inkscape tag

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@jdboyd@social.treehouse.systems 2026-04-07 14:38

@a @doctormo do you have access to, or at least know the proper names of the type faces used? This is the short of technical art I can do, but if I have to fully recreate the type, it might be too hard to feel worth it. Send a DM if you would like to discuss further.

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@Fun_Thomas@mastodon.social 2026-04-07 16:11

@a Hi Anthony. I've just created this account so I don´t know much about Mastodon but I think I can do the job U need with those images. I'm a Graphic Designer... So I don't see any problem. Let me know if you're interested.

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@a@pdx.social 2026-04-07 18:28

@JigmeDatse The best¹! ¹ Some restrictions apply.

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@JigmeDatse@social.openpsychology.net 2026-04-07 18:25

@a@pdx.social Is this one of the worst operating systems of all time?

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