I believe you get Bezier curves having used one of the options for Path Trace.
What is the best of 'exporting' these to a text file so that I can manipulate them for use in another application?
Not sure what you mean by "exporting to text to manipulate". SVG is XML based and can be viewed and edited in Inkscape´s own XML-editor for example or any other text editor.
So am I right in thinking that the svg flle will include the defintions of the paths as bezier curves?
If so, then I guess the task is to use these definitions to get the circular arcs that I want.
Check the XML Editor out. A circle is a parametric object in first place until you´re converting with Path->Object to Path:
Thank you
Beyond the Basics Exporting trace path curves
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I believe you get Bezier curves having used one of the options for Path Trace.
What is the best of 'exporting' these to a text file so that I can manipulate them for use in another application?
Not sure what you mean by "exporting to text to manipulate". SVG is XML based and can be viewed and edited in Inkscape´s own XML-editor for example or any other text editor.
So am I right in thinking that the svg flle will include the defintions of the paths as bezier curves?
If so, then I guess the task is to use these definitions to get the circular arcs that I want.
Check the XML Editor out. A circle is a parametric object in first place until you´re converting with Path->Object to Path:
Thank you