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Pay little attention to those pushing offset. That's not your problem. Offset is at best a micro adjustment. All it does is provide a tiny translation to account for the blade's cutting edge not being dead center on the blade's shaft. Or at least where the plotter thinks the center might be. You...

Ah, time for that other topic. Set your plotter up for registration marks the same size or slightly smaller than those you printed, Specify 4 type 2 marks. I'm not sure how you go about this on your machine but it's in there somewhere. Load the print into the plotter, as square as humanly...

Some else's behavior is never justification for your own. If 50,000,000 people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing. The hasp key is pretty much unique to the design/drafting niche. Other software, big hairy expensive software that makes this relatively primitive stuff pale in both...

Alrighty then, assuming you've installed the Cuttin Master proerly and created a setup for your plotter... Set up the image to be printed in Corel. Create a new layer, optional but easier to explain. In that layer create the path around the image that will be the contour. In that...

Does it feature Graphtec's ARMS registration sensing feature? If it does it will simplify things just a bit. To do contour cutting without invoking magic either your software must manage the contour cutting or the plotter must have some sort of registration mark sensing. Since you're using...

Exactly what plotter are you using? It's not all that hard to do but it's not all that obvious either. How you do it depends on exactly what hardware and software you have.

Which word didn't you understand, sport? To which notion do you take exception? I'll admit that 'scalable Cartesian coordinates' is a bit of a redundancy, since Cartesian coordinates are inherently scalable. Other than that?

Your question makes no sense. Vector and dpi are mutually exclusive terms. Dpi is a term for a bitmap. The concept is non-existent for vector images. A bitmap image is exactly that, an explicit or an implied value for each and every pixel in the image. A map of the bits which has a density...

This has far more to do with your rendering intents than just what secret formula you fancy for black. If you set your rendering intents for everything except bitmaps to 'Spot', or 'Saturation' if your software doesn't support 'Spot', and use a simple 0.0.0.100 for black, all will be fine...

A perfectly reasonable request. It's used so often it even has a name, 'Small Caps'. While there are some faces that use small caps as lowercase, there's no problem in rolling your own. You really should know how to do this. In Corel, set the copy in normal title case. The do Text->Character...

Because, like lots software, the actual package is the result of an installation process, not a mere transference of files. The files, even if you knew where they all were, as well as registry entries and a host of other considerations are the result of this process. Download the bits from...

I always give them a coat of Clear Shield. Printed banners that is, which is pretty much the only kind I do anymore. It takes maybe 5 minutes max, brightens the colors, and it provides a pretty good level of abrasion protection.

That's a pretty much standard italic 'f'. The 'L' and the 'C' are the big clues. The font you're looking for is Bernhard Modern Italic either regular or bold, depending.

Well, sort of... The Sign Warehouse 'Q' series, a recent addition, is made by Graphtec. The other Panther , Lynx, kitty-cat, whatever machines are/were made by GCC, China's own Great Computer Corporation and are rather pedestrian machines. They'll work and if you've never seen anything else...

I'm also questing for an image of a scarecrow. Unlike the other thread seeking the same thing, I'm looking for something dark and foreboding if not downright evil looking. Cute need not apply. Preferable a trio but one will do. Preferably bitmap. Not only not cute but no bloody eyeballs, no...

Virtually every font file has the © and ® and a host of other special characters. You can access them directly if you know the code for the character. You merely hold the alt key and type either the full decimal code, including leading zeros or type x and the full hex code including leading...

You want to cut and weed that? Even if you come up with it in vector, life is too short and that's just beating up on yourself. You might try finding another image without so much detail.

Not quite. Most Graphtecs have a setting for HPGL or GPGL. Which one you use depends on just what your software's putting out. For example, Flexi does HPGL but Graphtec's Cutting Master add in for Corel and others uses GPGL. The potter doesn't care which one as long as it's set to the one you're...

It might be offset but offset is like a carburetor on an engine. It's the first thing attacked and, more often than not, the last thing that's causing problems. If your machine has done this from day one out of the box, then offset may well be the culprit. If the offset is set at what it's...

Adding a stroke or an outline to a letter is doing it in Bubba Bold. Especially if it's imbedded in a line of normal text. To do it properly you have to do as iSign suggested. Convert it to paths and edit the interior nodes. You can stretch it a smidgen on X but you have to leave the height...