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advice needed, how to cut a font like this?
Anyone have any experience of this style or similar..
I have to be printing & cutting it soon, but struggling to make it up.
Cutting as straight vinyl is going to be a fiddle, but in some cases it will have to be cut vinyl only…Hope someone can advise here,
Thanks,
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Can you post a bigger image..hard to see what is involved there.
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Thanks Harry,
hope this w
orks better.. I’m no expert with this side of pc things I’m afraid…. -
Still hard to tell. It will take a bit of time to cut, but it should weed easy enough as long as those lines are fairly simple, node wise. I would separate each line of text with a cut line though to make weeding easier.
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That’s probably a good idea Harry thanks, do each letter individually.
I did wonder if it was a font that someone may know of, but I rather suspect it may have been ‘adapted’, personally I detest it, but…
Thanks again chaps,
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Creating something like that will to point depends on the software you use and how competent you are with it.
I use SignLab and I think I could do the the few letters you show there in 1/2 and hour without any problem, either cut or printed, size of course will be a factor with the cut text. Pretty certain that the original font is quite common. -
If using Corel the ‘back minus front’ option would do it very simply and quickly.
I’m assuming it is a solid red block with spikes or grass blades in front?
Maybe my eyesight needs an MOT 🙂 -
I use Signlab, 4.95 in fact, and it’s worked OK for me for 20 years so that will be the way I think chaps, thanks.
And yes, I too thought of grass growing up into and therefore cut out of the bottom of the letters.
Thanks for the input here..
Regards,
Dave (Titch) Sanders -
as Harry said, create lines and edit nodes.
Wrong font but only took a couple of mins to do
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Now I like that Chris!!
If I set up the font as I need it, could/would you put the ‘grass’ growing up into it & make it ‘cutable’ on my plotter??
How I can reward you would be your shout if it’s possible to get it to me..Thanks, quicker than I am obviously!!
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quote Dave Sanders:How I can reward you
‘Beer vouchers’, has been known to cause a stampede to the front door in the Windebank house. (allegedly) 🙂
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quote Dave Sanders:Now I like that Chris!!
If I set up the font as I need it, could/would you put the ‘grass’ growing up into it & make it ‘cutable’ on my plotter??
How I can reward you would be your shout if it’s possible to get it to me..Thanks, quicker than I am obviously!!
As you’ve been using signlab for 20years you must have done a little bit of line/node work…draw your jaggy grass as a closed shape and ‘weld’ the shape out of the text. seempills 🙂
Dave
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post the font typed out as you need and convert to curves, upload it as pdf.
beer vouchers indeed!
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Fair comment all,
it’s just one of those tasks I keep putting off somehow, yes ‘node edit’ tends to be an occupational habit of mine.. I will do it, thanks.. that’s kicked me up the bum!!
And then I sit here for 20 minutes having another read through the forum……. I must crack on here, but I appreciate all the comments, not a bad bunch eh??Titch
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But this sounds good, and quicker for me, beer tokens can be arranged too (not printed by me though)
Upload as a pdf?? this is going to test me too, can we pm here?
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the pdf I posted is a vector, just use that. You only have to alter the A and the Y
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Ahn,
now we are moving into a software exercise.. hope this is OK on this post.
But in all honesty, all I am capable of really is, and I have just done it, exporting from my Signlab 4.95 as an Ai, an early Ai at that, then coverted to Pdf with Corel.
Saved on a memory stick as that now.
I’ll have a go at putting it on here… don’t wait for me though.. or can we/allowed/accepted by the forum to contact personnel direct if so wished???
Thanks so far Chris, I’m learning every day, and so I/we should (hot)
no.. sorry, don’t know how to get it from the memory stick. I don’t wish to take up your time too much here, software issues are not my thing, self taught on Signlab a long time ago I’m afraid.. can it be emailed Chris? -
easier in corel for me
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Will do, thank you!
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quick tutorial in corel
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