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?
mandm said:in what property is text before welding?
Chris Wills said:Final step is to hit Ctrl+W (Weld)
Ronny Axelsson said:Chris, I think you accidentally gave her a shortcut key you've added yourself. Ctrl+W is used to refresh screen by default.
Woops!
I have had W mapped to weld for so long I have forgotten what the original shortcut was.
Thanks for picking that one up Ronny
Ronny Axelsson said:"Artistic text", it is possible to skip the "Convert to Curves" step and instead "Weld" directly.
I always use that step because I have had unexpected results from just welding Live text!
Chris Wills said:I have had W mapped to weld for so long I have forgotten what the original shortcut was.
Good tips. Thanks. Yes, I'm using the print dialog right out of X6 to output to a roland printer/cutter.