Converting file to PLT Gerber Edge?

[Jason Davies]

Just save it as an eps and open it through composer, should do the trick

[Paul Seamer]

I have exported as EPS Postcript 3 and that seems to have put imported the outlines but not colour and where there is a object placed inside container it has taken it back out of the container. Is there a way that if I export it from corel it will apear with all colours and with the object still in container the same as it does in corel?

Thanks
Paul

[Jason Davies]

No, you will have to some work on it in Omega. We use Illustrator so not familiar with Corel anymore, but we have to refine in Composer after.

A bit of a pain

[Paul Seamer]

Ok, Thanks Jason. Have to have a play around with Omega. Shame as the design is done in Corel with Objects in containers. Not sure if this can be done in Composer. Have to learn pretty quick.

[Jason Davies]

Paul, if you are printing on the Edge, you will need to make it Edge ready using composer? So some of the ‘tricks’ we use in Ilustrator or Corel for solvent won’t work on an Edge if that makes sense?

Good luck
Jason

[TimDouglas]

the only way i have been able to do it is to output it to an AI file and then import into composer and then sit and add all the colours to each part again, takes ages but only way i have been able to work it from coreldraw to the Edge.
Tim

[Paul Seamer]

Thanks for the help guys. Is there a way in Composer that I can place object inside container like we do in Coreldraw?. I should only be using Composer for the Edge soon anyway. Just had a few designs in Coreldraw.

Thanks Again

[Fred McLean]

What’s a container Paul? Is it the same as a clipping path?
I use composer

[Alan Drury]

If exporting from Draw remember to have ‘simulate complex filled curves’ is OFF that way you will avoid construction lines through the letters.
Alan D

[Paul Seamer]

By Placing inside container I mean the Powerclip Effect. E.G I have a Union Jack Flag and want to place it inside the lettering United Kingdom so that you can see the flag in the lettering only.

Hope this makes sense.

Paul

[Fred McLean]

Yup it’s a bit like the shape menu make clipping path option in composer(i Think omega 3 has a better version, think i saw it in the tutorials from spandex when it first came out,i’m running 2.6 🙁 )

[Tony Teveris]

Depending upon the version of Omega you have you should be able to export your Corel design as a CMX file and then import the CMX into Omega. If your Corel design has "text" objects they should be converted to curves before you export. Later versions of Omega can handle clipping paths, I think 2.6 and later on the import.