need help with a file putting in cut line

[Neil Speirs]

Don’t know if it’s me but nothing displayed when I opened the file?

[John Parfit]

Hello

It opens for us in X5 but not in X4.

I think the easiest way is to select the part that has the complete text string (there are lots of other parts that you don’t want) and contour this at a judged distance then adjust until it goes just around the outline. Break this apart so you have cut line, then select text string again and contour a little larger than last time, break apart again and fill new contour with outside colour and place to the rear, this will give you a bleed for cutting.

Hope that makes sense.

John

[Roger Clements]

It doesn’t open in x3 but just as a thought …if you copy it and bitmap trace the copy then make a boundary on the bitmapped copy could you could overlay that on the original….

[Mo Gillis-Coates]

hi guys, thanks for all the input, have sussed it… wend with the trace bitmap option after duplication and moved the cut line back to the original, works fine, just wish I could find out why X5 doesnt read the eps files as they are sent…

[Alan Drury]

You need to convert outline to object, once you have done that for each letter boundary should work fine. There are a couple of shapes on top of each other though. Time taken would still give better result than retracing
Alan D

[Mo Gillis-Coates]

I found that one, but I didnt quote any artwork for this job, so I needed the fasted rout to the end…..

the Pstill program works well though just downloaded it and helps me out of another sticky wicket…thanks for that

[Martin Pearson]

Mo if you hadn’t quoted for artwork and didn’t want to spend time sorting it so you could use it couldn’t you have asked the designer for it in a format you could work with. Sorry don’t know what it was designed in or how corel works as I don’t use it myself.