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I am toying with the idea of purchasing a prog. from "Asigns" called "signtools" which allows direct cutting from corel draw..... does anyone have any knowledge of such software ?? or can some one give me advice on other progs. of same nature, are they a satisfactory alternative to tracing ? or does one still have to trace... regards
-------------------- Leslie Alan Emery Alan Emery Signs Maryborough Australia
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpeice..... Posts: 25 | From: Maryborough. Victoria Australia | Registered: Jan 2002
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Hi, If you are serious about doing signs from Corel, There are 2 that I work with, that are set up to work with Corel and most all plotters. CoCut and Signlab 5. There are others, but I hear the most about these. Signlab is used all over the world. CoCut is very easy to use.
Go check out some shops near you and get the opinion of thoses that actually use them, vrs thoses that sell them... Good Luck!!!
-------------------- Ralph Lyon aka firedawg LYON Northwest
Kent, WA USA
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i been cutting from corel...without any other program since 93...when i got my plotter. if you go back in the bb postes and search for it you will find all kinda info on how its done.....
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Tracing is necessary no matter which program you use. If the art or logo you intend to cut out of vinyl is a bitmap you'll have to vectorize it in one fashion or another.If you have to put the art into a scanner to get it into your sign program then you'll need some sort of trace or vectorizing program to cut it.
-------------------- fly low...timi/NC is, Tim Barrow Barrow Art Signs Winston-Salem,NC Posts: 2224 | From: Winston-Salem,NC,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Leslie, We are the developers of SignTools 3 for CorelDRAW. If you have any questions I would be more than happy to answer them.
Regarding tracing, Timi has got it right, all software packages require scanned images to be traced so that you can cut them on a plotter. SignTools does not have any tracing tools. CorelDRAW already comes with an adequate tracing program...CorelTRACE.
See also the current post "SignTools 3 for CorelDraw" by Jim & Chris hetzler for more infornation on SignTools or got to our website www.asigns.com
-------------------- Andrew Gourvelos A Signs Sydney, NSW, Australia
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