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A few weeks back I had the latest version (in Aus.) of Signlab5 version 6.3 installed after having a virus removed. The problem is that since then I am unable to import Adobe Illustrator files. Has this happened to anyone else or is it just me? Any help would be appreciated.
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I can import AI files into my cutting program but there are a bunch of vertical lines in the graphic, letters or whatever. You can't see them unless you wireframe. I've been welding them together but sometimes it won't weld it right and adds stuff. Anybody have this problem?
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Robert, I have no clue on the vertical lines, but only an educated guess. Do you have any gradients in the art that youre importing into signlab? If so, it could be interpreting them as vertical lines. I get those when I import a CDR file into Illustrator. But, in Casmate, if I have a gradient in any imported Illustrator objects, Casmate won't see anything at all, that object won't show up.
------------------ Don Coplen aka "SaintPete" Coplen Designs St.Petersburg, FL dcoplen@mindspring.com
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I have had the same trouble not being able to see the ai file I import unless I have it on wireframe. I am using SignLab 5.0 Revision 5 ColorMaster. The type ai files I have had trouble with are from CD's like Pure Gold. Seems like there was a way to trunicate the file so it is visible but I forget where that feature is. Pure Gold's files were also available in a dxf format, I was able to import it correctly. Still don't know why this happens. No problem with verticle lines though. Judy
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corel will do the same thing with some ai imports...seems that ai's tend to put a box around the object your expoting/importing...and the box shows up as extra lines in the graphic....in corel you need to ungroup...then delete the box...
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The verticle lines are resulting from the limits of PostScript, ore more exactly from the few memory the first PostScript printers had. To avoid to fill the memory with a too large path while ripping an artwork, developpers of AI added an option to "Split the long path" while exporting and printing.
This option can be found in the Document Setup Dialog of AI 8.0 and in the same dialog, within the "Printing & Export" sub-menu, of AI 9.0. The same optons existed from the first AI version to the current one, but I didn't check the place it was for older that AI 8.0.
Uncheck the corresponding checkbox and you will never have the verticle lines problem… except perhaps your printer bureau could inform your files are too large for their printer memory !
To fix the vertical lines problem of files you received from external CD for example, Adobe provides the Pathfinder "Fusion" to fix it in few seconds (the Reunion also works if ever you have only one color artwork).
Once again, let me ask you the question : why don't you buy a second hand Mac and plot the AI file directly from Adobe Illustrator using Sign of NCS (free to download) or NCS MagiSign ? See http://www.magisign.com for more info.
P.S For the same Rip memory reasons, Corel did the same and split paths while exporting to AI format. I let Corel expert explain us in details how to fix it.
------------------ Philippe JACQUES info@magisign.com
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Dave, I have not heard of the problem you have mentioned, although the virus may have affected the Signlab Software. If you have not already done so, you should reinstall your Signlab Software. For those people with the importing AI files with "stray lines" everywhere, you should also download the latest version of SL. The lines are caused by the Header section of the AI files, that is why other programs will do the same thing.
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Dave I have the same signlab as you I have got around the problem. Tim put me on to it in my post above about converting ai files I did this in corelle and cut and pasted it into signlab
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I found this post searching for a solution to the same problem. Has anyone found an answer to the Corel factor? I'm getting those vertical lines after importing AI files from Corel to signlab.
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When exporting files from Corel as an .ai file, I just export it as an Illustrator 4.0 file (you are prompted for the version on a popup screen after entering the desired filename), as with higher version formats I get problems importing them into signlab...
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if you got corel, then take the ai. into it and export to signlab as a CMX...signlab likes CMX format.
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I've always wondered why in certain .ai files a 'solid' object is broken into hundreds of pieces, now I know why.
We use signlab for the engraver. No problem with importing .ai files into signlab, it's our medium of choice for transfering files. We design in corel, export as .ai (ver 3) and import into Signlab.
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