Drawing Roman laurel leaves (SPQR) in TikZ
First you clean up the bitmap in even Paint and remove the unnecessary bits and save your file as a .bmp. Such as
Tracing with POTrace
Then download potrace and in the command window simply type
potrace <filename>.bmp
And that would give you a vector file format .eps, (I optionally convert it to PDF for ease). The quality of the trace is inverse proportional with the complexity of the figure. Sometimes it's amazing sometimes it gets confused.
Converting to TikZ code
Download and install Inkscape. Add Inkscape to TikZ exporter extension from this link. Download tikz_export.py, tikz_export_effect.inx, and tikz_export_output.inx from the External links on the bottom of the left panel. Put them in the share-->extension directory inside the Inkscape installation directory.
Export from the menu: Extension -> Export -> Export to TikZ path. An option window shows up. Choose your option and export from there (either into a file by specification, or in the clipboard).
So we get
Here is the resulting file I got.
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I would like to rephrase;
TikZ ist kein Zeichenprogramm ;)
Here I want to describe another (not better, but different from this of @percusse) workflow, that is only adaptd to logo/glyph type drawings. This workflow use exclusively online tools.
- I search the web for existing SVG version of the drawing. Here I was googling "Assassin's Creed Ancient Rome Insignia" without success.
- If I can't find one, I convert the bitmap image to svg online, by googling for example "convert png svg". There are plenty of tools and some (most) of them use potrace, like InkScape. For this example I used online-convert.com to obtain this SVG.
- I optimize the svg using the online version of svgo.
For this particular example are used "precision:0" and "Prefer viewBox to width/height" to obtain this half sized svg. - To convert from SVG to TikZ I use SVGPathy playground.
- copy/paste the entire svg in the upper textarea;
- select
Remove Arcs,Transformation : scale(1,-1)andOutput type : One TikZ path per line(New : You can selectFull TikZ in standaloneand go faster to the final result); - copy the result from the bottom textarea;
wrap the resulting code in
\documentclass[tikz,border=7pt]{standalone} \usetikzlibrary{svg.path} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} % the code generated with SVGPathy goes here \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}
Here is the final result (see the notes at the end for the additional options).
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Notes and disclaimer
- I'm the author of SVGPathy that is based on svgpath.
- SVGPathy is designed to work with svg paths only, not with general svg images, so it is ok only for simple logo/glyph images.
- I have checked in SVGPathy the option
Remove arcs(that convert arc commands to cubic curves) because elsesvg.pathwas complaining! Dimension too large. <recently read> \pgfmath@x. - The transformation
Transformation : scale(1,-1)is here because SVG and TikZ have different conventions about the orientation up/down for the y-axis. Instead of correcting that when converting, you can just put in tikz[yscale=-1]. - For the final image I use
View Box : 0 0 100 100to reduce the coordinates to be in [0,100]. And I selectedprecision:1andZip Itto reduce the code size. - Even if you use the @percusse workflow I strongly suggest you to optimize your svg before to convert it to tikz. For this you can :
- Apply all the transforms to the paths by "ungrouping" (the shortcut is
Ctrl+Shift+G) multiple times, if necessary, all the paths (select them withCtrl+A). - Save it in InkScape with the option "Save type : Optimized SVG".
- Use SVGOMG to optimize it even more.
- Apply all the transforms to the paths by "ungrouping" (the shortcut is