Help applying a Contor Cut Line around graphic please?

[Adam Zeit]

There is a solution online, http://vectormagic.com/home
It turns your jpg logo to vector, and there you can choose the contour.

[Alex Pirozek]

If the PDF is in vector format then create boundary in corel should do it.
If it’s raster then you will have to convert the whole logo to vector or manually add a cut line to the raster logo.

[Hugh Potter]

you already have it… of sorts.

what software do you use?

I use corel and would do the following…

duplicate your whole drawing, then on the duplicate, remove all colour and put to one side, just leave the black background.

add a 2mm contour / bleed around the original, separate the two, colour the contour outline fill black, make the original black line a hairline / cutline, change the colour of the outline and specify it as the cut path,

the original outline is now your cutline and you’ve also created a bleed to allow for cutter inaccuracies.

i did just try and do it but it crashed my corel.

i’ll try again in a mo

[Hugh Potter]

dude,

you need to clean up the file, it should be pretty simple to do but there’s far too much going on with it. all the black (except writing) should be one layer, the colours laid on top, the transparent star thing needs cropping down to do what it needs to do, a printer would pick that ip and waste a lot of ‘nothing’ to print he area we can’t see.

does that make sense?

Hugh

[Robert Kulawik]

Here you go, try it, as I think you need to add some outline stroke/ offset path.

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Attachments:

GrowingUnderground Logo background.pdf