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If I live to be a hundred, I'll still forget to weld scripts together before cutting. I have done this more times than I care to remember, and every time I do it I feel stupider and stupider. I need a window that pops up and says "Did you remember to weld the scripts?" They got a window for everything else..........
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Jeff, a good way to remember to weld script is to view in wireframe before cutting. I use signlab and it gives you a wireframe preview that you have to ok before it plots. I don't know your programs, but since I started using signlab, I have never forgotten to weld scripts (a big fat lie) Bill
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Good response Bill I do that as well...Only in VMP it is not automatic another habit I have is convert to curves..before final save...down the road....the font that was used to create the job may be missing..
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Bill...I design in Corel and cut in Signlab. That makes my stupidity double bad, cause I have to see the wireframe before cutting and STILL cut it unwelded. I think I am missing a few bytes of memory in MY harddrive !
-------------------- Jeff Ogden 8727 NE 68 Terr. Gainesville FL, 32609 Posts: 2138 | From: 8827 NE 68 Terr Gainesville Fl 32609 | Registered: Aug 2002
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I have an automatic check list committed to memory that I go through each and every time before I send a job to plot.
Just takes stubborn determination not to let yourself forget so you have to kick yourself in the butt all the time.
Another reason I seldom forget is that I always tweak the kerning of every letter especially with the scripts so when you connect any two letters you can see the overlap very easily.
No different really than making sure the lid is closed tight on a a can of 1-shot before driving off down the road. Couple of times of smelling the gas in your vehicle you used to clean up the paint spill will make you a quick learner.
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quote:Originally posted by Glenn S. Harris: You could hire some hacker kid to write a plugin for Signlab that creates a pop-up any time you try to plot a script font!
Actually that is an excellent idea. So good, the program writers should have thought of it and made it a standard feature of the program. I mean, Signlab is MADE for sending jobs to a plotter - they KNOW we do it all day long - if the program can't automatically weld them for you, there should at least be a reminder. I can understand Corel not doing it, as the developer's consider it a publishing and illustrating program with sign making being an ugly stepchild. But it sure seems that a sign-specific program should address this. Anybody listening???
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i design in corel and cut with the cocut pro plugin,, it has an automatic weld widonw tht pops up. and if i forget ... the final preview reminds me to weld the scripts..
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I format my layout and design.To affrim if it is Colour or Single Cut.. Next going to the cut mode...... I do a full visual inspection to make sure that the objects are in place and the WELD is ON!
But at times when this overlap happens, Then I use a fine brush or even a Q-Tip to edge seal the cut after I have placed it.
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Preview cutting before sending to Plotter..
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I need a window that pops up and says "Did you remember to weld the scripts?" They got a window for everything else..........
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