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Figured out a solution! The RS-232 connection wasn't the problem. It was the plotter/cutter's command language setting. It was set to "auto." We changed it to HPGL and now it's working properly and accepting the cut condition commands from Flexi.

BUMP So we "punted" -ended up ordering an upgrade to Flexi 12, which was fairly expensive. I'm still having problems trying to get this new Graphtec 8600-75 to work correctly. Flexi 12 has a driver for that cutter/plotter. But it refuses to work properly; everything is cutting at a speed of 50...

I went the reverse route learning CorelDRAW first and then Illustrator. I bought my first personal copy of Photoshop (v2.5) bundled with Illustrator 4. There were things I wanted to do with paths in Photoshop, like importing Corel-generated vectors. CorelDRAW has never been able to directly...

This is one of the reasons why I have been using both CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator for over 20 years. In recent years both applications have been introducing more and more application-dependent special effects that do not translate well to other programs outside the original application. Even...

Our shop is replacing a pretty old (and now malfunctioning) Graphtec vinyl cutter/plotter we bought about 15 years ago with a new Graphtec FC8600-75 unit. The host computer that drives the vinyl cutter/plotter is a PC running Windows 7 and Flexi 7.6v2. Has any participants in this forum worked...

If you're trying to get a rope like effect wrapping around an oval I think the best approach would be by using Corel's blend tools. You can attach a blend from one source object to another along the length of a path and have those objects rotate with the path. Sometimes this works pretty well...

CorelDRAW is better than Flexi in some ways, but it is inferior to Flexi in other ways. The same thing goes for any CorelDRAW vs. Adobe Illustrator comparisons. They all have their own strengths and weaknesses -weaknesses that make it necessary for me to use some other software to get a specific...

I've been using CorelDRAW for over 20 years. I think it's a must-have program for sign shops. But I'm not going to cheer-lead for it. Some releases have been better than others. One of my biggest gripes with CorelDRAW X7 is that it can be unpredictable in how it handles editable text objects...

We use CorelDRAW, Flexi and Adobe Creative Cloud in my workplace. I have many years of experience using them all. They all have their unique advantages and disadvantages. For working on projects with artwork at full size levels and sending artwork to computerized routing tables Flexi is vastly...

Most people are very familiar with variations of the Dolby logo. I attached a copy of the original "Dolby System" logo from the 1970's. I'm trying to figure out specifically what typeface was used for the lettering above and below the logo, "Making Films Sound Better" and "Noise Reduction • High...

That's not a solution to the problem. Illustrator users cannot manually re-size an area type box to accurately match the cap height of a letter. The box might be fairly close in size, but it will not be exact. And it always has to be just a tad bit bigger than the capital letter otherwise the...

"CAS"-type sign making applications have been able to size lettering according to cap letter height for well over 20 years. I started out in sign making using an MS-DOS based version of CASmate and CorelDRAW 3.0 running in Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Even way back then CASmate allowed me to...

I attached an image which I also shared in a similar discussion at the Adobe Illustrator feature request forum at Adobe's web site: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1709269 I invite any forum users here who care about this design limitation to speak their minds in Adobe's forum. Maybe if there is...

Adobe Illustrator is not able to vertically center editable text accurately. It would need to be able to align lettering based on its cap letter height in order to do the alignment correctly. Adobe Illustrator has never been able to do this and CorelDRAW can only do it within some serious...

The Adobe PDF format takes any shortcut opportunity it gets to try to shrink file sizes. This sometimes means it will take certain geometric items, such as rule lines or vertical letters like the lowercase "L" or capital "I", convert them from being rectangle objects with 4 anchor points down to...

If you're actually wanting to delete part of an image rather than just hide parts of it with a clipping mask you have to do that in Photoshop, save either a layered TIFF or PSD file and then place that back into Illustrator. Paths can be used to create solid edges on the cut image. Soft edges on...

It's one thing to prefer designing only in CorelDRAW. I prefer doing most of my sign design work within CorelDRAW while using Adobe Illustrator in conjunction with Photoshop, After Effects, etc. on other projects. It's another more hazarous thing to go Corel-only, using it to open & edit...

I've been using both CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator for many years. Neither program is anywhere near perfect at opening files generated by the rival program. At best, vector shapes will retain accuracy. Outside of that there's lots and lots of differences in how both programs behave. And that's...

I just started having some headaches lately with font behavior in CorelDRAW X6. I'm sure this has to do with a slew of Windows updates from Microsoft. They obviously did something that is affecting CDR X6. My office PC is running Win 8.1 Pro. The problem: on screen rendering of type is kind of...

PDFs are such a mine field for CorelDRAW. The latest version can deal with them a little better since X7 has more transparency features, such as varying transparency levels on gradient stops. PDFs with Illustrator editing capabilities left intact will work better, but still not perfectly. PDFs...