making centres of letters ‘see-through’ for printing? cont..

[Dave Bruce]

Have you tried the way I said Lorraine? It seems the way to do it to me unless I am still in the mud 🙁

Dave

[Lorraine Clinch]

Hi Dave

sorry, yes I did try your way, several times, but on the pen icon I get options for line style or gradient fills only. I’ve tried all the options for gradient fills, no luck(not used them before, this version of Signlab is fairly new, so still no further forward….
tried line fill, still doesnt enable me to see whats underneath.
I’ve tried breaking & connecting path, can’t make path. It’s all ungrouped.

There must be a reallyy easy way of doing this, just don’t know how!

[Dave Bruce]

Yer use the line style, select hairline (has two red arrows pointing at each other with a line inbetween) and then the colour black (or whatever)

dave

[Tim Painter]

Well I’m lost……….are you saying you want the centre of characters to be 100% transparent so you can see through them ie the centre of an ‘O’?

Tim.

[Lorraine Clinch]

Hi Tim, Dave,

I’m really making a pigs ear of explaining this, but I want to print the image as above, but I want to print it as a vector, from Signlab, rather than printing the jpeg above.

The vectorised image will colour the letter centres as a solid colour, but if, for example, you look at the ‘O’ in radio, on the jpeg there are 2 colours running through it. This is what I need to reproduce, from a vector.

Is this possible?

Thanks for not giving up (yet!)

[Dave Bruce]

What are you printing too? I don’t see why it is not printing the way it is shown, can you send me the file, I have emailed you.

Dave

[Tim Painter]

Are you producing this Printed?
or
Cut Vinyl?

Tim.

[Dave Bruce]

Tim I know this is getting frustrating, but please follow this plot.

Dave

[Tim Painter]

I’m following it just think Lorraine is loosing it…….

Think she has been browsing the Calendar Images 2 long………

Tim.

[Lorraine Clinch]

Those calender shots-I haven’t had such a laugh for a long long while.

My hubbie jokes about me having ‘cyber-sex’, coz I spend so long each day on here, I daren’t show hom the calender thread, he might ban me from reading them!!!!

By the way, problem now sorted thanks to you all! (And I’ve learnt a new trick too) Umm, probably the wrong word used..

[Carrie Brown]

Glad its all sorted now Lorraine …. most of all I bet you are … I know how frustrating it is when you just want to get on and do something but just one tiny vital detail is stopping you from doing it.

😀

[Gordon Forbes]

When you go to contour cut in signlab at the top left hand side there are two small buttons (round pinkish circles) these give you a choice of what contour to cut either just an outside line (left one) or inside and out of a graphic or shape you are cutting (right button).
You need this if you want to put some nice effects on text in photoshop etc etc Make your text in signlab export as .eps do what you want to it in photoshop export as a tiff import to signlab lay your original text over and use the clip function to clip the image to the text and then if you want to contour cut use the inside and out button I mentioned above and it cuts inside text etc etc and it does a pretty good job.
If you want a good hard edge on your text print make an inline of the original by a mm or so and use the inline shape to clip your image this gets rid of any pixelating on the edges.
OF COURSE it is essential that you do your text at the size you need it cause if you scale it up it looks rubbish.

Probably totally confused you now.

Goop

[Gordon Forbes]

Re reading this why dont you just draw it with the tools, You don’t need the pen just distort the type and ovals all in signlab ?

goop