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  1. How to dismiss a worker

    "All these who are employed here take one step forward. Just a moment there John."
  2. Converting raster image to vector for contour cutting

    I have no idea as to what Design Art Pro even is let alone of what it might or might not be capable. If it's a an Illustrator/Corel/etc-like package there no doubt is a way or two. If it is not then bog knows if you can or cannot... Just concern yourself with dropping out the background and...
  3. Converting raster image to vector for contour cutting

    One does not convert a bitmap to a vector image. No one no how not ever. What happens is that the pertinent regions of the bitmap are traced or simply redrawn. There is no other way. Not in this universe.The bitmap must be re-created as a vector image. Period. If a vector image is converted to a...
  4. Calling all Design Police............................................

    A fence is not a creative work, something which is unambiguously defined and protected by current copyright statute. Your analogy does, however, fall neatly into the category of 'tortured reasoning'.
  5. Calling all Design Police............................................

    You might want to familiarize yourself with some of the finer points of the Berne Convention, of which the USofA signed onto in 1989, before you drop your keyboard into gear and look more the fool.
  6. Graphtec CE5000-60 Registration Mark Issue

    Where are you locating the cutter blade when you start? If you're using automatic marks you must manually move the blade so that the blade holder is just inside the imaginary box described by the registration marks and then, most important, set the plotter's origin to that point. Then send...
  7. New Computers! Anyone have any preferred vendors?

    As a data point I have a Dell that's be banging away running Flexi and Corel as well as driving my printer[s] and plotter[s] for the last 12 years or so without any problem whatsoever. Ever. Know that virtually all computer manufacturers are little more than integrators assembling pretty much...
  8. Antique Dodge PU lawn art

    No. Don't use steel wool unless you want it to look like someone used steel wool on it and most certainly don't use paint thinner. The absolute best way to age a painted sign is to scrub it with kitchen cleanser. The powered variety with pumice or some sort of gentle abrasive in it. Just wet...
  9. REALLY getting tired....... Nodes are eating up my time !

    Corel doesn't do EPS or AI very well and neither does Flexi. Export from Corel as a legacy CMX. This is as close as you will come to what you see in Corel is what you get in Flexi.
  10. Knowing where you stand... I guess?

    Anytime you encounter this phrase, or any variation of it, you can stop reading and supply what inevitably follows.
  11. name to type of design (tattoo)

    Never having met a fellow human who wasn't a practicing moron that cleaved to a particular philosophy for a lifetime I can state that for virtually all normal beings, most certainly that time will come.
  12. name to type of design (tattoo)

    Instead of a tattoo you might consider a bumper sticker. Then when you no longer think that it's just the best thing ever, and that time will come, you can scrape it off your bumper.
  13. Older Heat Press question ?

    They're supposed to get hot and to press. Do these do that? If so you're good. If not, you're not.
  14. Windows XP going away-Browser question.

    Speaking from hard-wrought experience never as in ever use the machine that drives your equipment for anything else. Keep it absolutely and completely off-line and it will just sit there chugging away dutifully year after year. That being the case you need two machines. One to drive your...
  15. Arizona law and signmakers

    Absolutely true. The rights, being freedom of religion and the practice thereof, of the baker and the photographer are specifically and unequivocally enumerated in the constitution. The rights of the those wanting baked goods and/or photographs are not. Consider a larger issue: Just how...
  16. Arizona law and signmakers

    I might go along with your interpretation of the former. One probably could not be, say, a cannibal, in the name of religious freedom. However, I do believe the practitioners of Santeria are give some slack in their dubious animal offerings to their gods. It's uncertain just where the boundaries...
  17. Arizona law and signmakers

    Really? When you go to a restaurant you just say "Bring whatever you have the most of" instead of selecting from the menu? Everyone should be forced to like Brussels sprouts? Anyone should be able to like or not like and choose to associate or not associate with anyone or anything for any...
  18. Arizona law and signmakers

    Freedom of religion is an enumerated right and reading between the lines is usually recommended when someones wants something interpreted their way instead of the way it's actually stated. There is no 'freedom of religion" in quotes in the context in which you use the term. It's an unalienable...
  19. Arizona law and signmakers

    No, that is not what it says. It says that you can refuse any business which is in conflict with your religious beliefs. The latter being protected under the first amendment, the former not so much. It most certainly does not say that you can refuse business because someone is a homosexual...
  20. Wrapping a Box

    This afternoon I have to wrap a 20"x30"x2" box. About the size and shape of a cake box. I'll be wrapping the top and all 4 sides with a print with a continuous barn-wood background. I've considered trimming off all 4 sides, applying then, and then applying the top. There's plenty of excess...
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