First off, I am an Illustrator person, I love the program. Corel Draw on the other hand, I am not too familure with. When I go to outline the fonts in Corel, it always creats these nasty little vertical lines that I have to fix, in order to create a decent cut file. Is there something that I am doing wrong? or is it a problem with Coral. Any help that you can offer, would be greatly apprieciated! Thanks!
PS - I know that I haven't posted a lot on this forum, I just enjoy listening in on everyone posts. One of these days when I have an answer to something, I will post, for now I am keeping my eyes open and ear's flapping (or something like that!) and keep learning off all of the talent around here! Thanks! Posted by Steve Aycock (Member # 3612) on :
Corel doesn't ignore nodes like it should, or like I think it should. Similar to a trace program there should be a setting for skipping over nodes that have been placed too close together or for curves and angles that are too sharp. Corel is actually too accurate.
You can normally eliminate this problem by first examining your orignal objects up close before you tell corel to do an outline.
Look for nodes that are too close together, micro curvatures, tiny little angles, overlapping lines in the same polygon, discrepancies of any sort, broken lines etc...
Fix these little problems before hand and you should be o.k.
One li'l trick I should mention. when you run an outline, say...you have some 4" text and you want an 1/8" outline, first put a 1/2" outline on and then break the outline. Next put a 3/8" inline on your outline. This often makes it work although its a task we shouldn't have to go through.
Hope that makes sense.
I haven't upgraded to Corel 11 yet, maybe it's fixed, and if not maybe we should send Corel Corp an e-mail.
Hope that was a help to ya'
Steve
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
You need to first "Separate" the outline from the original text, then you need to "Break Apart". Both these commands are under the "Arrange" menu.
Once all the bits and pieces are seperate shapes (aka: all compound paths released, for an Illustrator person) it will import/export correctly without adding the vertical lines.
Posted by Jeff Green (Member # 3508) on :
Sorry, I used the wrong terminology, I meant to say, what I want to Convert the text to curves. Not actually outlining. Long week, sorry.
Thanks so far, though!
Posted by Jeff Green (Member # 3508) on :
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Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
quote: First off, I am an Illustrator person, I love the program. Corel Draw on the other hand, I am not too familure with.
Just curious, why do you need to do this in Corel? Do you not have Illustrator available? I'm sure if there is an easy solution, you will get it here, & it's always good to learn new stuff, but just figured you would have opened Corel file in Illustrator, converted to curves & been done with it already?
Posted by Jeff Green (Member # 3508) on :
Long story, to make it short, last Friday both of the "work" computers crashed. Somehow, on the computer that had Illustrator, lost all of the windows files. and almost corrupted the whole system. The other computer still will not recognize the "usb key" to run things like Flexi. Heck it won't run anything, almost like all the drivers, and support files for all programs went "BYE BYE" We had someone take a look at the computers, the first computer, we managed to save most of our files off of it. Just lost everything else. The Flexi computer, is still toast. And just so you know, the we just backed up all the files the previous Friday to all this using a new way of doing it. Thought it worked, it never actually saved all of the files. It has been one of those weeks truthfully. Anyway, it turned out the guy who worked here before me brought his copy of Illustrator. We do not have a version of Illustrator, just been using that one. We do have Corel Draw though. that is what I am using for the time being.
Besides that, we do some work for a bigger sign company whenever they need the help. And they use Corel Draw, and this is a frequent problem that they say never happens, but it does every single time.
Sorry about the rant, not a great week.
If anyone has an answer that would be greatly appreiciated.
Thanks
Posted by Arthur Vanson (Member # 2855) on :
Jeff, maybe it’s me, but I don’t quite understand what it is you are asking.
Sometimes, depending on the way it was saved, when you import an AI file into CorelDraw, a compound shape or letter can have unwanted lines between the inner and outer shapes. Is that the problem?
If not, how about rephrasing the question?
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
OK.. outline or no outline, you still need to use the Convert to Curves commmand in CorelDRAW, then you need to use the "Break Apart" command.. make sure everything is ungrouped as well.
The other shop may not have that problem because they might be using CorelDRAW with CoCut or some other bridge program to drive their plotter.
The problem comes in when you need to import/export that Corel file. If the other shop is not importing/exporting they will never experience the problem. You on the otherhand are exporting a Corel file into some other form of file that your plotter can understand, and that's where the problem is.
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person, I love the program. Corel Draw ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
on the other hand, I am not too familure with.![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)