I am trying to set up numbers to be able to cut on a vinyl plotter. I have created the numbers and put a stroke on them.
How could i be able to cut them when sent to the vinyl plotter.
This image shows the points that have the outline. I need to have these points moved to the outer edge.
I recently purchased Coreldraw Home and Student Suite from my local computer store, on there advice that this would work with a vinyl plotter.
I have since installed the software and it has not worked as it is not compatible with vinyl plotters.
I want to make vinyl wall art. How I would go about making this example in .ai cs6
This example shows ZALESNY over a lighter background...
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I have a Toshiba laptop with Windows 7. It has a 500GB HD, 4GB RAM, 16" screen and CorelDRAW X5 and Summa's WinPlot bridge software installed. Everything runs perfectly.
I want to be able to cut vinyl letters from my Summa D75R vinyl cutter and then to cut a different colored outline to be applied over the top of those letters. The letters themselves, that is, the main body of the letters, I can cut with no problem.
I know that I will have to separate the two elements and cut the letters from one file and the outlines from a different file. As an experiment I created a single word with a color. I then created an outline for that word. I deleted the body of the letter leaving only the outline.
I then did a "Convert to Curves" on the outline and imported the image into the WinPlot software that my Summa D75R vinyl cutter uses. I sent the image to the cutter but it cut it as a solid letter. It did not make a double-line cut as it would have to do to make the image an outline.
The company I work for bought a new vinyl cutter out of the blue without consulting us (the IT Department), and now I'm fumbling about trying to figure out how to use it properly. The cutter requires the use of Adobe Illustrator, so I downloaded the trial before shelling out money from our budget. Now, we used to use this absolutely unimaginably broken piece of software called SignGo, which allowed the creation of 3d shadows rather easily, actually. All our buses have our company name with a 3d shadow behind them, and the owner does not want to change how this looks:
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It's damn close to what I want, but as you can see, there are little extra cuts that the vinyl cutter will make, ruining the shadow. Is there any way I can either force AI to not draw those points which should be masked, or to edit the shadow manually?
I'm playing with the 3D tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended for a friend. He provided an .obj file of a tool part and it opens just fine as a complex, shaded object.
Question: Is there a way to generate simple outlines of the object and export those outlines as paths to Illustrator?
I need to do a print job for a album(vinyl) cover, I don't have problem with the art work but I'm not too familair with print, I know I have to do CMYK colours, but what is bothering me is what size do I make a vinyl cover in? I can't find measurements online.
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Created 4' x 8' artwork in illustrator for a vinyl banner (w/my company logo, tagline & images). Saved file as a PDF and sent to printing company. Just received banner and everything looks great, except our Logo/tagline... they look grainy as if either it was a JPG or I'm thinking the logo/tagline did not link up and the low quality place holder printed? Either way, I'm trying to find out if it is something the printing company messed up or if it's something I messed up—and if it was my fault, how to avoid this in the future.
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The picture below is hard to see, but you can really see it best at the top of the "t" as if it was cut out with a polygonal lasso tool.
I don't come out of that, how I can only the outlines visible.
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When trying to print, I currently get the following:
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I am trying to convert a fairly simple logo to a vector for printing in t-shirts. When I did it years ago, I used live trace and emailed it off to the printer and it worked fine, this time, using the lastest version of ai, the printer keeps saying it is not a vector, despite using live trace.
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When I export my AI file to SVG, the strokes show.
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How can I remove the strokes? This is the same exact file exported to png: [URL] ....
The png files does not show the outlines, which is what I want. I have set the strokes to transparent.
I try to export an Illustrator file as JPG and CMYK and it will always results as and outline text without fill.
Original file [URL] ......
Exported file [URL] ....
Here are my export settings [URL] ....
I changed them to try a diferent output but nothing will modify.
Finally i saved the file as PDF and then exported as JPG but the resolution is not very good besides i would like to be able to export directly from AI where i have more control settings.
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On this page of graphs, all the descriptive type and graphics I have added to the page let me do this.
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