Can somebody give me advice on using corel draw?

[Alan Drury]

Can you describe how you cut from Corel to your cutter ie are you exporting or cutting directly via a Windows print driver.
Alan D

[Andy Gorman]

If you are cutting direct from Corel and using the plotter as a printer, then there is your problem. I had the same problem and Graphtec told me it is an issue with Coreldraw. I am inclined to believe them as it cuts fine fom Illustrator and Signlab. I don’t think there is a cure for it, although I was using Coreldraw 9 at the time. I don’t know if any later versions work any better.

[David Rowland]

CorelX3 does have some export problems like that… but how you doing it?

[Chris Wool]

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If you are cutting direct from Corel and using the plotter as a printer, then there is your problem. I had the same problem and Graphtec told me it is an issue with Coreldraw.

yes andy there is a problem but only with naff fonts i have used the printer type drivers since they were available but not had one as bad as david discribes however illistrator and others handel these poorer fonts better. the roland driver is better than graphtecs.
if you look at the way problem fonts are constructed they have been software converted from another format nodes all in the wrong places then look at a letterhead font somebody created that with care and skill and cuts beautifully.
david i would start a new file with just the offending word in it and test cut my guess is that the problem will disappear

chris

[Andy Gorman]

Yes, but the problem only occurs with Coreldraw. As far as I’m concerned, if something looks fine on screen, then it should cut fine.

[Chris Wool]

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if something looks fine on screen, then it should cut fine.

i could not agree more.
but if you draw a oval and it cut it fine it has to be the font, there again only with coral.
i think davids problem is far worse than we are talking about which made me think a gremlin is in the file.

chris

[David Chilten]

Thanks for your replies guys
I am just printing to the Secabo Windows printer driver, is there another driver I can use?

Using Corel X3, it won’t let me print because it sez the line to cut is thicker than 0.001 mm and it will not let me change it lower than a hairline which is obviously not thin enough.

The cutter came with Artcut 2002 which is not very dynamic any suggestions on free software or what is the best to use???

Dave

[Alan Drury]

You can change to a lower line, type in the size you want, you don’t have to use only the preset ones. If Artcut imports AI or EPS then exporting from Draw in these formats (low version) and importing into Artcut may help too.
Alan D

[Pat Byrne]

Hi David,
As Alan has posted, the hairline option can be changed, just scroll down width box and select another line width and change this to 0.01.
Sometimes I run a sebaco 40 from corel ver. 10/artcut driver and convert text to curves and this works fine.
Hope this helps
Pat