two coloured text cutting

[Gary Birch]

If you put a small contour around your original text and use that to trim your shadow that will give you what you are looking for.

Cheers

Gary

[Paul.Gardner]

Thanks Gary,
Have just tried that and can see the shadowing , but when it cuts it is cutting many times around the shadow, how do i just cut the outer and inner lines of the shadow ?

Paul

Edit, think may have found it, Contour steps 😎

[Graeme Harrold]

Also if you try to cut a filled object from corel it will also shred the letters

[Peter Normington]

this is one of the reasons i use signlab, (or other dedicated sign progs like flexi) takes a couple of clicks to produce a shadow with a keyline
and measurements are so quick to change. and the result is ready to cut,

Peter

[Chris Wool]

ah sod it i have to use a couple of more clicks. (SL snob) 😉

[Paul.Gardner]

quote Graeme Harrold:

Also if you try to cut a filled object from corel it will also shred the letters

Have had that as well, thought i was doing somthing wrong, but could not see what.

maybe i should try signlab or flexi, but have been using corel for a while & it seems to do most things i want,,,,, until i started cutting vinyl 😳

[Peter Normington]

quote Chris Wool:

ah sod it i have to use a couple of more clicks. (SL snob) 😉

when you do 3 million shadows a day, signlab really does pay for itself
(corel commoner) 😀

Peter

[Chris Wool]

😀 😀 😀

Graeme can you expand on that problem not sure what you mean

chris

[Darryl Seager]

Flexi does a nice job ….. the way i do it is to solid ‘fill’ the shadow part – that way i have no fiddly little bits to weed and apply.

(the shadow becomes a solid block and the colour goes on top)

Darryl

[Adrian Yeo]

Chris

If you try and cut say a black filled square from corel, it tries to plot the whole coloured area as well as the outline. Think that’s what Graeme was talking about.

😀

[Paul.Gardner]

I think he means if you draw a square with a cutting outline, & put text with no cutting line in the square, for some reason it will cut out the text as well, i get this, not everytime, but it is very annoying and i cannot see why it does it.

[Alan Drury]

If I’m understanding you correctly:
Place text on screen – size and copy to clipboard
Effects – contour – choose size etc. (Puts outline round letter)
Select contour group and break apart (CtlK)
Select all and weld together
Press + (places duplicate over orginal)
Select duplicate and offset to desired position
Select all and weld
Colour welded object to desired colour
Paste original text back into position

You now have text with basic outline and drop shadow.

Peter is right in as much as SL and the likes are faster and offer far more options and flexibility but hey they’re ££’s more.

I’ve always said that Draw and SL go together, each one covering the others shortfalls. I could manage with just Draw – I couldn’t manage with just SL but would always want both.
Alan D

[Chris Wool]

trying to think how best to explain this as people as making hard work of this.

chris

[Chris Wool]

can’t attach to this so new thread