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?
Thank you for the responses. So that leaves me with the question: in what property is text before welding? What technically takes place during the welding or converting to curves or objects process? Can it be assumed that text, in its native state, is not vector based and contains no usable path information?
HI.
Text and fonts are always vector. Welding simply makes it a "curve" shape, as the program calls it. Where it was once a "text "shape and you could change fonts and properties alike, in a curve shape you can edit nodes and do different things related to curve shapes.
~John