inserting clipart

[rburtonrmx]

Ok i know you vet's are gonna laugh at this one.I am trying to make some vinyl graphics for a bunch of people at a nearby lake. i have several clipart collections and i am trying to get a piece of clipart of an anchor. i have a couple in eps format when i try to insert them into my LXI expert 6.6 software the show up but it says no cutable object? any clues what im doing wrong?
Thanks in advance

 

[Pro Image]

You need to IMPORT them into the software not cut and paste...........
Usually under the File menu........


That will get you going..............

 

[rburtonrmx]

You need to IMPORT them into the software not cut and paste...........
Usually under the File menu........


That will get you going..............

I have tried that i must be doing something wrong

 

[Shovelhead]

If you import...

as a Postscript .EPS it will be vectored and therefore cuttable.

 

[WVB]

Possibly unmask the .eps file once you bring it into your LXi software...

 

[Bill Modzel]

Hey there shovel. EPS doesn't always mean it's a vector file. I can save a jpeg as an .ai file too but it's still a jpeg inside.

 

[Shovelhead]

I know...but thanks for the tip....

Hey there shovel. EPS doesn't always mean it's a vector file. I can save a jpeg as an .ai file too but it's still a jpeg inside.

what clipart collections have you seen that offer raster .EPS files???

 

[Bill Modzel]

Fair enough, I get all kinds of ridicules combinations of file perversions from customers, including raster eps files.
I kinda read over the clip art thing.
Not being famailiar with LXI, might it actually rasterize a placed file automatically? If it's an eps file why can he just open it instead of placing it?

 

[rburtonrmx]

Possibly unmask the .eps file once you bring it into your LXi software...

how do i unmask?

 

[high impact]

I have flexi but would think it is comparable - right click the image, see if it gives you option of "unmask", click unmask and delete any raster boxes that come up. You may have to unmask a couple of layers - I've had that happen a few times but never with a clipart program.