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  • Corel x5 problems, traced image wont cut please help?

    Posted by Paul Atherton on 18 December 2011 at 16:10

    Hi all
    Ive hit a brick wall, trying to do a favour for a friend.
    i have imported the jpeg image i want o use (single colour) used corels power trace to convert the image then applied my contour cut colour as outline and selected no fill. my graphtec plotter says data recieving but nothing happens, any ideas what im doing wrong???
    if i delete everything and type any text with the text tool and apply same outline and no fill it cuts fine. any help greatly appreciated
    paul

    Gary Birch replied 13 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Tim Painter

    Member
    18 December 2011 at 17:11

    Can you post the image.

  • Paul Atherton

    Member
    18 December 2011 at 17:22
    quote Tim Painter:

    Can you post the image.


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  • Paul Atherton

    Member
    18 December 2011 at 17:33

    I LOVE IT when you solve things yourself, all it was is that i needed to convert it to hairline outline, well i say solved it is cutting something atleast as i type.
    fingers crossed its fixed but if not ill be posting again,
    🙂 🙂 🙂

  • John Hughes

    Member
    18 December 2011 at 18:06

    Paul, why are tracing this !!??

    Much better to buy a disc with symbols etc on or just google a vector.
    You will get much better results and save time.

    John

  • Paul Atherton

    Member
    18 December 2011 at 18:19
    quote John Hughes:

    Paul, why are tracing this !!??

    Much better to buy a disc with symbols etc on or just google a vector.
    You will get much better results and save time.

    John

    Hi john
    reason is there are 12 of these signs and are all hand drawn
    my friend is painting a series of signs for someone there are 12 designs but 30 odd signs to be painted.
    she wants them all to appear as hand painted but wants dupicletes to appear consistent

    i hope this makes sense basically she is using the vinyl as a stencil to paint.
    i do have a disc with symbols etc for signage but she wants to achieve the "shoddy" look haha

  • Gary Birch

    Member
    19 December 2011 at 09:46

    Pretty sure that particular symbol will be included in the Corel clipart collection anyway. Certainly worth having a look.

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