Im having problems with a Corel file that Im trying to import to Signlab. It is a rather large scanned object that is very high resolution. I have had to paste 5 seperate scans together to make this object which is 65 inches long. What ive got to do is manual trace this but dont know how to in Corel. But I do know how in SignLab. Ive tried scanning object directly in Signlab but it comes up too jagged to manually trace. I cant seem to find any format to export out of Corel that Signlab likes and that shows same detail as in Corel. Ive tried J peg,EPS,AI,TIF and none have given the same resolution as the orginal that was in Corel.Im ready to get out the crayons as Im having no luck here.
Posted by Bill Biggs (Member # 18) on :
Gary, I guess it depends on the modules you have in signlab. I import huge bitmaps and jpgs and tifs into signlab daily. You might try putting your bitmap into corel photopaint first, and resample it. I have accuscan on my signlab, lots of times I convert rgb pics to cmyk and then just pick out the black and white and auto trace that. there are a lot of tricks to making bitmaps work for you. you might try in photopaint to make a mask of your white space for example then reverse it to give you a b&w pic. then trace with accuscan but if you are tracing manually, I cannot think of a better place than signlab. The tools are so convenient and the controls so good. Bill
Posted by Gary Patrick (Member # 1424) on :
Thanks Bill, I agree that Signlab is best to maually trace,and thats why Im trying to do so. im all thumbs with manually drawing anything in Corel and wouldnt even use it for this except for the fact that Signlab wont take a scan directly and comeup with any detail. Viewing the scans of same object with same settings Corel vs Signlab is like night and day. I think Im going to try Illustrator and see if I can export it to Signlab next.
Posted by Judy Pate (Member # 237) on :
Gary, I use SignLab 5.0 Colormaster and CorelDraw9. I can select the object in Corel and copy it. Then open SignLab and select Paste and paste the object into SignLab. Sometimes the colors are a bit different but it works. There is also a way to set CorelDraw up so you can just click the red dotted "C" so your object goes to SignLab. I used to have CorelDraw set up that way but haven't changed the setting back yet. Hope this helps! Good Luck! Judy
[ March 06, 2004, 06:13 PM: Message edited by: Judy Pate ]
Posted by Gary Patrick (Member # 1424) on :
Thanks Judy, I dont have any problems with exporting AI files from Corel to Signlab,just large bitmaps such as scanned objects. Perhaps its my scanner which is a SCSI drive Scanmaker X6el. I can scan an object in ANY other graphics program(CorelDraw,Illustrator,Photoshop) and it comes out just fine. If I scan in Signlab or import a Jpeg into Signlab it looses details and has jagged edges.I m thinking its just Signlab is not that user friendly on bitmaps.
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
did you try exporting from corel CMX file to signlab? it will read them.
Posted by Bob Darnell (Member # 27) on :
Hi Gary,
Try going through Signlab's options or preferences and see if there is a setting that will address it. I seem to recall having the same problem, but I think there was some option in Signlab that tried to limit the amount of memory that it would give to bitmap images. I think I was able to increase the number and the images appeared fine after. I'm not at work, so I can't be more specific.
Posted by Gary Patrick (Member # 1424) on :
Thanks Bob, I found one of the problems was that the "Show reduced bitmaps"option was checked. When I deselected that it cleared up alot of the detail issues. But Im still having problems with the large bitmap files. It seems as tho it is limiting the size of bitmap to 90 M and if the image is any larger it will distort by altering size or color. I think I ll go thru the manual(when all else fails) and see if theres a setting on use of avaliable memory. Seems like I had set it to about 80% and I have about 400meg of RAM.
