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  1. Font Help Please

    can you post an image of it?
  2. Hi from Northwest Florida

    Where specifically in NW Florida?
  3. Magnetics

    It's on there: "Gerber Auto Mag" Fred is sooo right. Ya gotta babysit it while it prints. First time I was printing on it, the mag material stuck to the machine as it was feeding out. Same on the plotter. I took a piece of coroplast and propped it right underneath where the material comes out...
  4. I'm an Illustrator nooby!

    I recently acquired Illustrator and am still trying to figure it out. The problem I'm having right now is moving images from Graphix Advantage to it. In GA, I click EXPORT and tell it to convert the image to an .ai format. Then I go to Illustrator and click OPEN and even though it says it's...
  5. something weird...

    HA HAAAAA!!! Got it! I made it just regular vinyl instead of assigning any print color to it and filled it in. There was a black outline around it! You guys were right! I tried the reverse select, ungrouping, etc. but couldn't get rid of it. Finally I realized there's a "STROKE FILL" button...
  6. something weird...

    I thought it might be 2 images and tried deleting one but there wasn't one underneath it. AARRGGHHHH!!!
  7. something weird...

    This might get confusing. I'm trying to print a decal, black on white. The customer sent me an .ai file. Brought it over to Composer and cleaned it up a bit. It looks good on the screen, looks good on the preview in Plot but it's trying to print the spot color AND 4 process colors even though...
  8. How do you...?

    THANK YOU, FRED! Your suggestion worked! I'm using GA 6.2 and have been for years and I still find out things I didn't know it could do! D'oh! :biggrin:
  9. How do you...?

    I'm not really sure how to explain this. What I want to do is, on a white background, print an object that fades from red to yellow without printing it as 4-color process. Is there a way to do that? I can print red on a yellow background to make the fade but I can't figure out if it's possible...
  10. Images don't show up

    Here's a question that's probably elementary. I've been using only Graphix Advantage - nothing else - for many years and just recently finally got Photoshop. WooHoo! I'm going to be able to do all kinds of crazy things! As soon as I learn how to use it. I've been going through the "help" section...
  11. Pricing Your Work

    Here's a new technique that I've been using that seems to be working pretty well. First, I get a "per sq ft" vinyl price. Example, intermediate vinyl costs about .25 per foot. Add in the transfer tape and it's about .30 per foot. Then I figure how much the retail price should be, taking into...
  12. exporting jpgs from composer?

    First of all, I'm only running Graphix Advantage 6.2; no Corel, no Adobe, just GA. Let's save the telling me how insane that is for another thread. What I'm wondering is how to export a jpg OUT of composer. Have ya seen the thread I posted about wanting ideas for my shop windows? I took the...
  13. New Thread for Gerber Owners

    I have an Edge, a Gerber GSX15Plus plotter, and run Graphix Advantage. Gerber should give me some kind of kickback. I've used only Gerber stuff in every shop I've ever worked for, starting with a 4b many years ago. Then got "high-tech" when the SuperSprint came out! Woo! (note the sarcasm)...
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