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Essentially all by hand. I'd tried to do it a few times before with different quality scans, and while I could see the original intent on all of them, auto-trac
by nanoraptor 3y ago
Essentially all by hand. I'd tried to do it a few times before with different quality scans, and while I could see the original intent on all of them, auto-tracing never held up across the whole poster.
I ended up taking a few days zoning out and re-drawing it as a white/black raster image over a highly scaled up scan, then auto-traced that in Illustrator and coloured it there. Text went in as some variant of Century Gothic with a few changes to match the original.
- klabetron 3y agoGreat work!
- skywal_l 3y agoDo you provide the vectorized version? It could be used to restore the original colors [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38876295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38876295
- JKCalhoun 3y agoI opened the file (PDF) in Affinity Designer (a commercial vector app) and the paths are all there. I can at that point easily export as SVG.