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Hello awesome community! I'm exporting a raster/vector image from Illustrator as a PDF and adobe keeps scaling it to a 1/10 scale. Thats all fine and dandy for the vector parts of the image of course. But the raster parts of the image after scaling it back up by 1000% are still not as sharp as...

Hi All, I am unable to get the special items for PerfCutContour. Using Illustrator I apply the spot colours, Name them according CutContour/PerfCutContour both colour & layer. I am using VersaWorks 5.1 along with a SP-300V. Is there any settings I need to change in regards to VW or...

So one of our biggest clients has this dot pattern that gets put onto the windows at all their locations. Every dot gets cut out individually. One location can have 20+ feet of dots that go onto 8'-10' high windows. I'm trying to find a way to create weeding lines for this behemoth. This is...

Hi! I work mainly on Illustrator, but now do contour cut stickers on flexi and an HP 64 Cutter. Is there a way to take a pre-existing vector shape in flexi and give it contour cut properties? I ask because the Contour Cut filter on flexi gives way too many anchor points, and Flexi's Reduce...

So you think newer Illustrator versions are faster? I just wrote a script for sanity check :roflmao: My average score is 1010 millisec with version 2022 and 810 on 2021 (not sure build number)

It drives me crazy, a few years back I could set my own symbol library so when creating a new page I'd have my symbols instead of the illustrator default ones. Any idea how I did that :D?

We are seeing a pretty noticeable shift in color when printing certain images directly from their native TIFF format in Onyx (current version) vs printing them after placing them (linked) into an Illustrator PDF. My suspicion (that we are waiting to test) is that this is due to the "Output"...

Is there anyway to add OPOS marks to a file in ilustratator 2022 or even 2021? Summa's plugins don't even load and I've found nothing else. Updating the Creative Cloud app nixed my illustrator 2020 and now it seems there's no way to add the marks at all. Can't even downgrade to 2020

Hello Community. I am searching for a way to automatically fit text into a static box in illustrator. ( I run the latest illustrator CC version) In other words... if i type a name into a box it should automatically resize the text to fit within the box walls either based on height or length. I...

Lets say you are going to be printing where the software has to correct the colors for you as there is no rip software. Can you use multiple color profiles per design and i guess just save or expert each color profile separately to print? Also what woould be a good way to keep them separated...

If anyone is interested, I've created a private Facebook group dedicated to Rasterlink issues, how to's, tutorials, etc, as well as questions related to Illustrator/CorelDraw/Photoshop to prepare files for output in Rasterlink. Since it’s a brand new group and hasn’t had much activity, please...

Hi guys im really struggling and am wondering if someone would be able to share some of their expertise with me please - I have the attached PDF which basically consists of lines with a 15px stroke However I want to add a .25 cutcontour line around the outside of everything, I used to use...

In this day of age one would think you can find ANY answer real fast on the webs. Well... not the case with me and I can not tell you how much I just want to take the keyboard and push it through the monitor. I have a file where I have to take 1 logo and put it somewhere else. The whole...

I have a template from SRGFX that I already have my design completed with. How do I go about just being able to print and cut what design I have showing within the clipping mask without having to print the entire design and then having a bunch of scraps? I can only seem to add a contour cut to...

I'm using FineCut8 on Illustrator (and have just downloaded FineCut9 trial to see if there's any difference, and there's not) When placing registration marks, the option to add intermediate registration marks is greyed out and unavailable to click... Any help or ideas on why this is happening &...

I just bought a used GCC Expert II LX and have my trial of Great Cut. Ive use industrial cutters before so I feel like many basic settings would carry over but I just cant figure this software out! Decent tutorials just dont seem to exist out there for it for what I need to do. Im not really...

Hi all, I was just wondering if anyone knew of how to add registration marks in the middle of a long drop. I often get a job in which requires 3.5m long graphics to be plotted, but it often goes off track & skewed. Any tips or tricks? Thanks!

I have an anomaly and although the customer was happy I won't sleep until I know what caused this and how to avoid it in the future... We printed an .eps file, all vector, solid Pantone 321 background and white text. Rip software is Versaworks and printer is Roland VS-540 We used versaworks to...

Looking for suggestions on software for shop drawings. We currently use Illustrator almost exclusively, but this is not very practical as most of our designers' time is getting tied up in spec'ing details (sizing/finishes/ect) or laying out the actual pages, rather than designing signs. We are a...

Sometimes when I add other artwork to Illustrator, in order to make a cut line, I go to center the object and it goes left or down, instead of centering. Sometimes when this happens it is because there is a pixel somewhere that is grouped with the object in question. I have made sure that I...