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I received a customer's logo in an .eps extension that is vectorized. The problem is that looking at it in Corel wireframe view, each letter has several outlines. Each outline seems to be made up of hundreds of boxes sitting adjacent to each other. I can weld some of these boxes together but I still have lots of excess lines in corners of letters that I can't seem to get rid of. Part of the logo contains a picture of a wave that seems to be made up of a thousand pieces. Any suggestions on how to simplify this artwork so I can cut it out of vinyl? Thanks!
-------------------- Jean Shimp Shimp Sign & Design Co. Jacksonville Beach, Fl Posts: 1266 | From: Jacksonville Beach, Fl. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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i've seen vectors of contours with gradient blends that end up looking like that. If you can select by color, you may find that one particular shade in a gradient would correspond to the correct part of each letter. If you select one contour on one letter that looks like the best shape of the original letter (not an outline or an inline)& select"same color" (illustrator has this feature anyway), maybe you will isolate a good set of contours that could be grouped & then locked while deleting the rest of the unwanted stuff.
The wave sounds like some files I've got from some clipart collections & can often be welded into one contour, of if adjacent, but not overlapping enough to weld, an extremely thin (a tenth of a point) outline on everything, then a weld may fix it.
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Since it's already vectorized, that means the colors are solid. The way I deal with this problem is to convert it to a bitmap, then vectorizre it again with your own software. It works for ME!
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I agree with Bob. At least if you need to cut it in vinyl, then you must simplify it. The quickest and often the best way to do that is to rasterize it, posterize it and retrace it.
-------------------- Fred Weiss Allied Computer Graphics, Inc. 4620 Lake Worth Road Lake Worth, FL 33463 561 649-6300 allcompu@allcompu.com Posts: 427 | From: Lake Worth, Florida | Registered: Feb 2003
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I've seen gradient blends in wireframe mode and as you describe, that would seem to be the case. Can't you just select the object and give it a solid color and eliminate the blend? Maybe try to save the eps as a cdr and then see if the blend can be removed.
(edited in) Re-read your post. You say each outline is made of hundreds of boxes. Ignore my response as I have no clue.
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-------------------- Bill Cosharek Bill Cosharek Signs N.Huntingdon,Pa
bcosharek@juno.com Posts: 703 | From: N.Huntingdon, Pa, USA | Registered: Dec 1999
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This sometimes happens when the original artwork has outlines applied to the letters. Exporting as .eps will convert those outlines into hundreds of boxes.
If it is possible, have the originator of the artwork select everything, turn off all the outlines and re export as .eps.
You may also be able to marquee select a number of them at a time without selecting the part of the graphic you wish to keep, and then deleting the selected pieces.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Select all X000 objects and turn them all black. Print it out like that. Take the print scan it back in then vectorize it. Takes less than 10 minutes start to finish.
-------------------- Chuck Churchill, It's A Good Sign Inc. 3245 Harvester Rd, U-12 Burlington, Ont. Phone: 905-681-8775 Fax: 905-681-8945 Posts: 633 | From: Burlington, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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