Bevel not printing right

[Colin]

I placed a bevel effect (in CorelDraw X5) to some lettering for a 30" x 14' banner and the bevel effect is not printing properly; it'a all jaggy and messed up - nothing like on screen.

Why?

 

[SignManiac]

Did you flatten the file first? The drop shadow is a separate element and will sometimes come loose.

 

[Colin]

Did you flatten the file first?

No.

 

[Colin]

Where is that command? Should I have converted the text with the bevel effect to Bitmap first?

Crap!

 

[SignManiac]

That's what I meant Colin by flattening it. Convert to bitmap at the highest resolution you think looks good at print size. That will keep the shadow in tact.

 

[signage]

+1

 

[Colin]

****e. How is one supposed to know that?!

Grrrrrrrr

 

[signage]

Colin if you break the bevel apart you will see it is a BMP and that should tell you.

 

[Colin]

Colin if you break the bevel apart you will see it is a BMP and that should tell you.

But there's absolutely nothing that would be intuitive to anyone about the bevel effect not printing properly.

 

[omgsideburns]

nope.. these are just things we get to learn the fun way.

 

[GAC05]

It's in the preferences for the document set up.
You need to set the resolution for the bitmap effects based on your final print size.
If it is too low it will print that way.
If the layout is very large and the effect dpi is set to 300 the program will bog down trying to render it out at that large size.
You can change the value and just regenerate the bevel effects before sending to print.
Make sure auto inflate bitmap effects is checked - it's supposed to take care of that but I'm not sure it does.

wayne k
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