SIGN CUTTING with Publisher ???

[xeroid]

Because I have been using Publisher for so long and just got myself a vinyl
sign cutter ... I was wondering if anyone out there knew if there is a way I
can design my signs in Publisher and then be able to cut them out ... or
convert the file to something and cut them out? Is there a solution? Any
ideas?

Thanks

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Without knowing what formats your sign cutter will accept, we can't answer
your question.

 

[Ron Cohen]

When I had my printshops I considered doing exactly the same thing. All I
could find out from the vendors I spoke with was that the sign cutters all
required a vector based drawing application, which unfortunately Publisher
is not. That has been some time and things may have changed, but it would
seem to me that anything created would have to be converted to outlines for
the cutter to work properly. I hope you can find a way to do this in
Publisher.

 

[reefer]

You would be much better off using Adobe Illustrator, and, depending on
your cutting program, saving the artwork in Illustrator 6 or 5 - not 10
or 11! You actually could save your Pub file as a .ps and import it into
Illustrator and work on it and then send it to your cutter as a vector
file. Avoid Publisher as a platform for your cutting work.

 

[xeroid]

You can import a Publisher file into Illustrator .... how well does the ps
file work with keeping the original design made in Publisher?

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

Hi xeroid ([email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:

|| Because I have been using Publisher for so long and just got myself
|| a vinyl sign cutter ... I was wondering if anyone out there knew if
|| there is a way I can design my signs in Publisher and then be able
|| to cut them out ... or convert the file to something and cut them
|| out? Is there a solution? Any ideas?

If you have Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000v2, that would be a good vector based
sign creation tool.
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com

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