Onyx Cut-server double line?

If it cut double lines, then the double lines are in the layout that was sent to it. If your layout is one like we often receive where objects get doubled when exported, usually because they have a stroke, then both filled object and the stroked object without fill may have been given the CutContour color for a stroke.

 

I have this happen occasionally with some files our other designer has set up. Same thing when I look at them they're fine but I get the double paths in Onyx. I think it has something to do with how the actual path is made or how the file is saved, I should watch her set the file up next time to see what's happening.

 

Break the object apart in illustrator to see if there are multiple paths combined together that look like a single path. That's what we find when we receive files created in Illustrator.

 

I used to get the double cut lines with Onyx and was told by a member here that making the cut path a solid object with fill and no stroke is a work around. I guess Onyx cuts both sides of the stoke.

 

Any chance one is half cut and one is contour cut? But like others said probably your path that is messed up.

 

We get that every so often also. If it has a stroke, make sure in Illustrator it's centered versus inner or outer.

 

don't use strokes just use fills we got faults like this all the time, changed to fill never had it again.

 

Instead of using eps files, use a pdf. Solved our double cut-path nightmare

 

Never had this problem with strokes, only get it when the file had been flattened and the “convert all strokes to outlines” was left checked. If you zoom in really close, when you click the line does it give you a path in the centre or a path either side of the line?

 

Odd! Never had that problem but good to know how to fix it! We export all our files to PDF so hoping that’s just an eps issue.

 

So I may know what the solution to the double cutting is.
I've never had this issue when doing pdfs so, when saving EPS. Go to "save as".
Beside "preset" select "custom"
then UNCHECK "convert all strokes to outlines"
I'm trying it now. Should work.

 

as stated above,
no work around necessary, just set your cut swatch as an object fill....NOT a stroke.
(a stroke is two lines offset from object when converted to paths. an object has one line, at its true shape)

 

This comes up pretty often. It usually happens when you're cutting something with a transparency, such as a PNG.

The cut color gets copied into the transparency and this creates double cut lines.

If you flatten your image, it'll go away 99% of the time and only do 1 cut line.