Help with text in Illustrator CS

[CuttingEdgeGraphics]

I am having trouble trying to figure out why I can't get my Graphtec 3000-60 to cut text that has been warped through Illustrator CS. The text is arched on the layout and outlines have been created, but when I go to cut it just cuts it completely straight. Anyone that can help me figure this out, I'm sure its something simple.

 

[Rick]

After you warped it, did you "expand" it?

 

[CuttingEdgeGraphics]

After you warped it, did you "expand" it?

Looks like that did it. Thanks for the help, I feel like an idiot now.

 

[Rick]

It's always the simple things that trip you up.....I said it before on this forum...the first time I had to turn on a Mac computer, it took me two hours to figure it out....and I actually didn't actually figure it out....I asked my boss who just hired me......she was not amused.....

 

[Derf]

one other thing that I hung me up for a while is that you must also un group items you have welded or cut out, Ect.... in the pathfinder in order to expand the appearance.

 

[Bigdawg]

It's always the simple things that trip you up.....I said it before on this forum...the first time I had to turn on a Mac computer, it took me two hours to figure it out....and I actually didn't actually figure it out....I asked my boss who just hired me......she was not amused.....

Used to be a paste-up and camera person back in the day. When my shop got it's first computer I convinced them to let me run it. I sit down at it with our first output job and the whole shop standing around me to see this fancy new gadget and I kept trying to put the floppy disk in backwards and couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong... my boss wasn't too amused either! Just shows we all start somewhere!