Hey Stuka,
I'm not having a problem saving in quick trace and re-opening. As you say that works fine, it just doesn't save to anything that can be used by anyone not using QS.
I encountered that weirdness with Trace-It. I'm not real sure how trace-it fits in to all of this, since it doesn't officially come with QS, but I guess owning the FB3 entitles me to download Trace-It for free.
When I load a jpg in trace-it, and do some work and save as an ILD file, I can no longer come back and open that (or any, I suppose) ild file.
So once I load the jpg into trace-it and do some editing, I cannot save it and come back later to edit more. Now it MAY save to some other format and let me come back. As you say, native formats are often the way to go... I will try that and see.
Does that make sense?
Thank you all for being patient with me. I hope you understand that while I may be a PITA, I'm arriving there out of a genuine interest in trying to understand this better. I just wanted to load a jpg, create a playable laser graphic, and then edit it and optimize it and color it and make some minor improvements to increase the fps and such.
I know in another post that you said I might be going about it wrong by having expectations based on my experiences with photo editing software, but I would very heartily argue that those programs have really got a lot of use and maturation under their belts and they really ARE the best way to do a lot of very similar things we need to do I order to create a good graphic.
For instance, when adding text and doing trial and error on font choice, size and placement those programs are very efficient in time use, mouse clicks and cursor screen travel compared to the laser editing software.
Same goes for most of the wire drawing and adjusting points. It isn't that I'm blustering in here with MY idea of how it should be done, I'm coming in with expectations based on a very refined software that does almost the exact same things in many respects and does it well.
I'd lke to do more than argue about it, so I hope to make a video showing you more of what I am talking about with one of my favorite (and inexpensive) photo editing software, paint shop pro. I think it can be had for about $60, maybe less, and it does some of this kind of vector editing and raster editing really well. In fact, if there were a way to do my editing there and export I'd be in hog heaven!
I'll work on that and see what I can come up with...
Thanks again for jotting up with me, I am sincere and not just here to pick a fight with Pangolin. I just happened to have bought Pangolin as my entry into projectors and think that I have some ideas that could make parts of it better.
Tom