how do I make centres of letters ‘see-through’ for printing?

[Nicola McIntosh]

can you ungroup it all? then change the circle to the correct colour 😀

nik

[Peter Shaw]

Don’t understand.

The centre of an O or an e is see through. Or do you mean transparent letters?

Peter

[Dave Bruce]

Select text click invisible colour(bottom left swatch) then pen icon select outline, choose colour hey presto.

Hope that helps

Dave

[Lorraine Clinch]

Hi, I’m obviously not being clear (there’s a pun there, somewhere 🙄 )

I’ve attatched a jpeg, to demonstrate. At the moment, I can only colour the letter centres one colour, and I need them to be “not there”, as if I’d laid cut vinyl over the top of the two blues-only printed, not cut. Then I could see both blues thru’ centres.

Still clear as mud?

Edit: Can’t attatch here- will find somewhere I can!

[Nick Minall]

You mean when you look at an O say in filled mode you just see a solid circle?

I don’t use signlab but in Omega you have to combined them so the center is then clear.

Hope that helps!

[Jayne Marsh]

Not sure how signlab works, but you need to combine the centres with the outside vector so that the two items become one object. In Flexi its called compound, in illustrator its also called compound. It could be called make path or combine or something similar. Either way all you are doing is making two objects into one so the centre becomes a hole. I am so rubbish at explaining sorry 😳

[Frank Droog]

It sounds like your letters are graphics and not text.
If the inside and outside of your letters are sererate objects, the select all your text and then click on Arrange/Make Path
This should make only the insides of your text fill with the fill color.
You will then be able to see the objects underneath in the insides of the letters.
This is actually the same thing that Nick and Jayne mentioned above.
We call it Make Path, others call it Combine

frank at cadlink

[Lorraine Clinch]

Frank,

You and Jayne were right, I was selecting only one letter, and it wouldnt allow me to ‘make path. Selected all, and it’s done it. Thanks so much.

Power of the boards yet again!

[Dave Bruce]

Ar now I see so the text wasn’t text it was graphics, I thought that Lorraine had been cutting this in vinyl, so how can she cut it if the centres were not ‘taken out’ of the outer path?

Anyway solved so I can get back to work now.
Dave

[Stephen Morriss]

Dave Said
“how can she cut it if the centres were not ‘taken out’ of the outer path?”

Cos the cutter isn’t bothered about the two parts of the letter being combined, it just cut two line and then you weed out the inside one.

Steve

[Dave Bruce]

Ofcourse Stephen, but you don’t see the proper layout on the screen, you can’t work like that surely.

Dave

[Lorraine Clinch]

Strange how only one woman can confuse so many men!!! :lol1: :lol1:

Dave, you can see the layout and how it’s going to cut.