devonl Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Hey guys, new user to Affinity here - so far I love it!I've been working on an image to be sent to a laser cutter, the file must be in either EPS or SVG with a stroke width of .01mm and a color of (0, 0, 255)RGB I'm working from a vectorized image and can not for the life of me figure out how to take the perfect outline that I see in the "Outline view mode" and export it with these two properties for laser cutting. I'd greatly appreciate some help here!Thanks in advance,Devon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted December 2, 2014 Staff Share Posted December 2, 2014 Hi Devon, Welcome to the forums :) Without seeing the file it's always harder to give accurate advice, but a good starting point is: Select All (Cmd+A), go to the Stroke Panel (at the top right of the default workspace) and click the solid line style, then click in the text edit box and type 0.01mm and press enter. Now go to the Colour panel (again at the top right of the default workspace). Select the fill colour context from the control at the top left of the Colour panel (i.e. choose the filled circle at the bottom right of that control) and select the special 'None' fill from the bottom left of that colour context control. Now choose the line colour context (by clicking the outline circle at the top left of that colour context control). Just above the very top right of the colour panel is a little menu dropdown button - click it and choose 'Sliders' and now choose 'RGB' from the list of available colour formats. Either slide the sliders or type in the 0, 0, 255 value you require. If you have any text in your file then you can get the most predictable results by simply selecting it and clicking 'Convert To Curves' so that it doesn't matter if the person doing the work for you doesn't have your font or their application displays it differently - it will simply be the curves you see, rather than editable text now. Hopefully if you now go to File->Export and choose either SVG or EPS you should have a working file, just as you expect. It might be a very good idea to confirm with the person doing the cutting that the file meets their needs, but it sounds like it should. Any problems, let us know :) Thanks, Matt devonl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonl Posted December 6, 2014 Author Share Posted December 6, 2014 Hello Matt, thank-you very much for this incredibly easy to follow instruction - It worked just as I needed it to! :D :D :D Devon :ph34r: Dale 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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