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Thread: Adventures with our new Epilog Fusion 50W laser...Corel vs. Adobe Illustrator

  1. #16
    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin Gregerson View Post
    You had to setup the dig in the software? You couldn't do it in the control panel? Duplicate number x and y?
    Hi Kevin,
    There are a LOT of the tricks in my Epilog that I haven't learned yet! That is probably one of them...and I undoubtedly could have used this for one side that was all the same. The second side was individual names. I thought about trying data merge to do the names, but they all needed to be resized to fit (which is also possible I am sure...but again, still learning). So much knowledge, so little time. Our classes start in two weeks and while we are hoping to personalize items on the fly for incoming students during our rush days (about two weeks of mayhem where we have hundreds of people in the store at a time all day long) I am also the Custom Publishing Manager and we publish one hundred titles of customized textbooks during this same time period. I'm getting slammed. But the great thing is, I can come in here and learn something everytime I come in even for five minutes!

    Thanks! I will look into this duplicate number x and y. I would love to use that.
    Central Washington University
    Epilog Fusion 32 50W
    Microsoft Windows 7 64 bit
    Corel X7

  2. #17
    Hi Gary,
    It looked fine to me too, until I printed it. Then I looked at my "View" settings and switched from enhanced to normal and could see the pixelation in the image. Wouldn't it be interesting if CS3 is able to save/export it better than CS6? You have me wondering. I should see if I can find someone who still runs CS3 on campus and have them export the file to an eps format for me and then pull that into CD. That could be really interesting...
    Central Washington University
    Epilog Fusion 32 50W
    Microsoft Windows 7 64 bit
    Corel X7

  3. #18
    Thanks Scott. Weird, isn't it? But when I looked it up online in both Epilog and CorelDraw support/knowledgebase, it appears to be a very common issue. I will try to find the threads again later, but even CD tech support people answered and said that it is a compatiblity issue between the two software programs.

    I think the only time this is going to be an issue for us is if someone brings in an ai image with tons of layers and hidden lines....and even then I know that as I become more familiar with the tricks of the trade, I will be able to go in and isolate lines we don't want/need and fix it up. I want to say this logo was created in CS3 or maybe even CS2 by someone who no longer works here. Which might be why it works better for Gary than for me. I did just realize that the logo has been around for quite some time. I haven't had problems with old CS files opening up for us correctly in CS6, but maybe that old of a file opening in a newer CorelDraw version is part of the problem...
    Central Washington University
    Epilog Fusion 32 50W
    Microsoft Windows 7 64 bit
    Corel X7

  4. #19
    I looked all through the file and don't see anything odd. A quick fix should be to save as an earlier version in Illustrator before bringing into CD. Version CS4 should do the trick.
    I design, engineer and program all sorts of things.

    Oh, and I use Adobe Illustrator with an Epilog Mini.

  5. #20
    Michelle, try and save it as a PDF and see if that fixes it. I'm running Illustrator CC and Corel X5. I saved it back to CS4 as an ai file and it gave me the issue. When I saved it as the latest version in eps format, it came through fine. I didn't try opening the ai file directly in Corel because I don't think X5 (2 versions old) will open the latest ai file, but I could be wrong.

    Try the PDF thing and let us know if that works.
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    Did you try "zip"ing the files?
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  7. #22
    Hi John, yes...the zipped files are now attached to one of my previous posts! Thanks!
    Central Washington University
    Epilog Fusion 32 50W
    Microsoft Windows 7 64 bit
    Corel X7

  8. #23
    We use it on Universal Laser Systems I assumed that epilog had a version of this.

  9. #24
    They very well might...I am a rank newby! I will definitely check it out!
    Central Washington University
    Epilog Fusion 32 50W
    Microsoft Windows 7 64 bit
    Corel X7

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