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Text overlapping when cutting
I have installed a font which I wish to cut.
When creating the text in Corel it shows as black and exactly how I want it to look (first pic).
When I go to cut it, it takes the individual characters and wants to cut each one which overlaps and obviously won’t be good when weeding as I will have tiny bits missing.
What I ideally need is for the text to be a picture, and have an overall outline.
Any tips for this in Corel?
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weld it!
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After you convert to paths go to arrange than shaping than weld and it should come to one object to cut.
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Don’t even have to convert to paths:
Select the text, arrange, shape, weld. simples 😀 -
Thanks for the replies guys.
Still having problems though.
Tried the suggested method. It wouldn’t allow me to select Weld. I converted to curves, then it would allow me to click Weld. It appears to come out as one from looking at the nodes, but on some parts of it the nodes go all over the place and chunks are missing in areas. Not sure why it is doing that 🙁
I have a dozen or so words written. Perhaps I need to split the words and weld them individually? Will have a look at it when I get back on the PC later.
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there is some sort of limit within corel so braking them down a bit may help.
also the (l) in the Until will struggle because of the extra lines in the down stroke which should not be there. -
What is the name of the font ?
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Ok I will see if breaking the words down individually makes a difference later.
The font is channel left slanted. Downloaded from dafont.com
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If there isn’t a lot of text involved you can do this by making a copy, convert the copy to curves. Then select the original and go to Effects > click Create Boundary. Then move the boundary away from text and you will get an outline without the centres of the ‘e’ etc.
If you break apart the curve version you can get the centres and move them to the Outline version.
Hope that makes sense, it’s laborious but works. -
It seems to be the "L / M / Y" that’s affected, the rest weld up OK.
If there’s not much text just shorten the flick or tail by deleting some nodes on these letters.
Cheers John
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This may seem like a stupid way to do it but its worth a try and will save you a lot of time.
Convert it all to a high res bitmap, trace it , maybe smooth some curves and there you are. Works more often than not. -
Try this sequence:
Select the text
Press ctrl+K to break apart the letters (if you have more than one words then press ctrl+K twice)
Press ctrl+Q to convert to curves
now use the weld tool or "arrange/shaping/weld" on the menu -
After a combination of the suggestions I have made it work for me.
I had to break apart each word individually and convert each, then shape and weld each word.This worked so I’m very pleased.
That’s 2 things I have learnt. To weld together, and break apart.
Thanks again for the help. Much appreciated.
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