SignWorld – Volume 38 Issue 5 – Step-by-step Guide -Help

[Bryan Cabrera]

What are you trying to convert to curves? Usually you would only covert Type to curves. Sorry I don’t have Sign World, so it is tough to tell what you are trying to do.

[Silvio Alves]

Hi Bryan,

Thanks for your response, I am trying to convert a font to curves

[Silvio Alves]

Hi everyone,

Basically, I have an image formed from text that I need to convert to a graphic to enable me to weld the overlapping characters together.

Any ideas how I can do this in Coreldraw 10, as when I try to convert the text to curves (from the “arrange” drop down menu, according to the advise in the signworld mag, I should be able to select “convert to curves, or ctrl-q, but this is not selectable when I try, I have tried this lots of times without success.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

Silvio

[Bryan Cabrera]

Are you positive that it has been converted already? Can you select the text with the text tool and still change the text?

Also make sure the text is selected either with the pointer tool or text tool.

Maybe you can post the file so I can take a look at it.

[Andy Gorman]

Why are you trying to convert to curves? Text can be welded together. I do it all the time with script fonts without converting to curves first.

[Silvio Alves]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your reply,

I am trying to weld fonts overlapping each other, at the moment it won’t let me do this.

Having followed the instruction in Signworld, it tells me that I must weld the overlaps together, and in order to do this you have to convert the image to curves.

The font I am trying to weld together (without much success) is “Pottyso.ttf font (these are basically different size circles) by welding the joints together I will be able to do “pop-art style vinyl cut images from photographs” The step-by-step guide was produced by Barnabus Rumpf back in 2003 – The demo was posted to Uksignboards.

An extract from the article reads:- “If you want to cut it, you must weld the overlapping dots. First convert the graphic to curves (In Coreldraw 9: arrange/convert to curves), and ungroup it (arrange/ungroup).”

Hope the above helps clarify the problem.

[Silvio Alves]

Hi Bryan,

I have checked the image, and it is still a font (as you can still edit the text), on the drop down arrange menu, it won’t let me select “change to curve”

[Silvio Alves]

Hi Bryan,

Don’t know how to post the file., I can email you the file to see what you make of it, if you can help.

Many thanks

Regards

Silvio
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[Iain Gordon]

for all members , tech – designz is refering to this demo

http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=26830#26830

i havent tried this one yet so i cannot offer any advise

Iain

[Silvio Alves]

Hi Iain,

Thanks for posting the demo, Unfortunately I could not post this as I am not a gold member of the signboards yet.

Regards

Silvio

[Andy Gorman]

I know what the demo says. But what I am saying is you don’t need to convert text to curves in order to weld it to itself.

If anything, you are more likely to get the message “Files exceeds 64K” when you attempt to weld. You can remedy this by using the “Break Apart” command to make the text into smaller chunks before welding.

[Bryan Cabrera]

quote tech-designz:

Hi Bryan,

Don’t know how to post the file., I can email you the file to see what you make of it, if you can help.

Many thanks

Regards

Silvio
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You can email to bryan@detailsigns.com I will need the font as well.

[Silvio Alves]

Hi Bryan,

I have emailed you the file and font, Thank you for having a look at the file for me. Appreciate your help.

Regards

Silvio

[Silvio Alves]

Hi Andy,

Thank you for your advise, I have tried your suggestion, but has not worked in this instance, when I break the text apart it disapeared off screen for some reason. Asks me to “click here with text tool to add paragraph text” where my text was located (I went arrange/break paragraph text – Assume this is correct)

I have sent the file to Bryan, to see what he makes of it, hopefully it is something simple that I am missing, as I am too familiar with Corel.

Regards

Silvio

[Bryan Cabrera]

I think the problem you are having is that you have used paragraph text. Try this:
Select all the text with the text tool and copy it to the clipboard.
Now open a new document and select the text tool and just click once on the page so you are in artistic text mode and paste.

Now you should be able to convert to curves.

It worked for me when I did that so if something is unclear just let me know.

Bryan

[Silvio Alves]

Hi Bryan,

Thank you for your help, it has worked a treat! :lol1:

Once again Thanks mate

All the best

Silvio