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Is CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite 11 (or lower) the package that is used for design and plotting (possibly print work)? I would like to download a trial version but not sure. The site didn't mention exporting to a plotter and I couldn't tell you the first thing about it. I'm using Illustrator and Flexi on a PC for the ol' 1-2 combo but would like to streamline things.
Is there a preference between Illustrator or Corel?
-------------------- Alan Ackerson LetterWorks Design and Graphics alan@ack2.com Posts: 776 | From: Oak Ridge, NJ | Registered: Aug 2002
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Alan....If you are familiar with Illustrator you may as well stick with it. Depending on the make of cutter you have you might be able to cut directly from Illustrator just as many of us do from Corel. Corel and Illustrator accomplish basically the same results.
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It would be cut using a Graphtec CE2000, not sure about plug-ins available for plotter communication and adobe products with this machine. I think their printer/cutters are able (may be thinking of the roland), for the low price of 10 grand.
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-------------------- Alan Ackerson LetterWorks Design and Graphics alan@ack2.com Posts: 776 | From: Oak Ridge, NJ | Registered: Aug 2002
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I've been cutting directly to a graphtec 4300 from corel 9 & 11 since May. Works like a charm. We also do contour cutting, print from corel to a hp3500 and cut on the graphtec, the three point alignment makes registration a snap.
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Alan, I don't really see a time savings exporting (or importing) your files from Illustrator to Flexi, maybe a few seconds at best, I always treat Flexi as a production tool only, and as jobs get bigger, especially multiples or a few colors, you will find that Flexi is a good production software. I do agree with Dave, if you know Illustrator good, stick with it, since they are basically the same. By the way a mojority of shops design in Corel/Illustrator then Import/Export into thier production software, plotting directly from Corel is good for light sign production, but the busier you might "possibly" get, the more frustrating it could become. Rick
-------------------- Rick Chavez Hemet, CA Posts: 1540 | From: Hemet,CA U.S.A. | Registered: Jun 2001
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get cocut pro 9, itl make yer illustrator and corel into a full cutting system. cut at the same time as designing,,,
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There are quite a few different answers. I understand all of the points mentioned and each one has a plus side to it, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it sounds like sensible advice for now.
Still would like to find the right PC/Illustrator plug-in for doing type distortion. One that gives you "real" control over what you are doing to the shape of the word. Does Corel have this feature built in? Better than Ill/envelopes? I feel at home in Illustrator but need Flexi to pull off certain design tasks.
-------------------- Alan Ackerson LetterWorks Design and Graphics alan@ack2.com Posts: 776 | From: Oak Ridge, NJ | Registered: Aug 2002
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