It's quiet around here without him.

poor bubba, he bee depwessed!

come on glenn, it can't be that bad.

throw some water on your face and jump back in... the water is fine!

a tater fan,

crtl/v

(now why didn't i think of that???)

breakfast, lunch and dinner...

mark

[ November 02, 2001: Message edited by: Mark Fair Signs ]

Damn that sammich looks good! Can I have a bite?

"Git along, little dogie" duzzent mean a to go buy a Dachshund!

[ November 03, 2001: Message edited by: Joe Rees ]

its easier to select a background thats fairly non-discript with the magic wand in photopaint, hit the mask/remove holes thingie to get it all and fill it with a solid colour, hit make new object from cut selection, invert the mask, make new object from this cut section and save the file.
open draw, drop the file on the screen, ungroup it all then send just the background part to corel trace, vectorise it and hit save.
this puts the vector outline back in exacly the same place you had the bitmap.
from here i break apart the vector send the inside shape to the router to be cut from 'whatever' and either make a transparency of the bitmap pic (remember it wasnt the thing i vectorised) so that i can airbrush it on the bit of stuff the router is gunna spit out or i send it to the pc60 ifn its only small with the cut line around it for the knife to chop,slice n dice it....

now that was too easy
whats next?

but anyway you need to check your import filters
its been so very long since ive seen the ver7 screen so joe would be able to help more than i can with where the ver7 import filters are stored

in later versions you go to tools/options/global/filters and check your 'list of active filters' to make sure ai is there, if its not you just have to drag it across

hey joe, lend a hand bro

I used to run 8 with 64meg and got lockups, went to 128 meg and they seemed to not happen. Same thing with version 9, except in that case I went to 256 meg. I am now using version 10 and have 512 meg of ram....no lockups or illegal actions etc. Smooth sailing!!

Also a simple thing that can free up memory for you is to reduce the levels of "undo" that it has to remember. Default is 99 "undos" and that is a lot of memory consumption.

To reduce the "undo" level to 15, much more reasonable, go to tools/options/workspace/general and change the default from 99 to 15. Don't click OK there but scroll down to "documents" and check the box that says "save options for future documents, THEN hit OK

How come I can't import an AI file from Casmate into corel 8? Does this have anything to do with the fact that Casmate is a 16 bit program and Corel 8 is a 32 bit program?

How come when I import an AI file from Inspire into Corel 8, it changes the sizes of the artwork?

This just recently happened (unbeknowst to me... oh boy...) and really messed up the window prints I had printed up by an outside vendor.

Are there any settings that can be dinked with to remedy these things? Is there a special way of setting up my artwork to elimate this? Any help with these would be most appreciated.

he who dies with the most ram wins!

actually reducing the undo's IS a vital step to smooth running i believe
i have my students set theirs to 25 until they get more confident within the program and then suggest 15 is ample

the other thing to notice is how often your auto save is activated
if you are running low on resources to start with and you have 'save' set to every few mins you will notice lots more 'not responding' problems.

while your working on a big file you will confuse the puter by telling to do 2 things at once, editing sumfin and saveing the file all at the same time will kill the program real quick

dont forget you can set the amount of systems resources that corel uses
windows will grab any and all that it can so i have my corel set to use 75% of the system

I didn't see anything that would have made him quit posting.

In fact, even Mark didn't annoy him! (Jokin Mark! Don't hit me! )