What are the best practices for designing and outputting text to a vinyl cutter?
I am new to CorelDraw. Should text be converted to curves or contours prior to cutting? If so, what is the technical reason behind that?
In my case, I have been designing in CorelDraw using basic fonts and outputting to a roland printer/plotter. the only way I achieve success is by first converting the text to curves. Why?
Hello Mandm; I always convert anything I want to cut to curves, and remove the fills just using the outline. It depends on the software or the driver you are using to how things work, I'm using a Allen Data Graph cutter and it uses a driver that is setup in Windows as a printer. A lot of the cutters have a 60" cut length limit, and some of the software knows that so it will let you panel your work. If you tell us what program you are cutting with someone that is using that software will probably jump in and tell you how they do it,
Good Luck, George