But there's also a print-to-printer option, which I used. Normally to engrave or laser this in Gravo you have a "machining" option. The text below it I added just to make sure this works, it's Gravostyle text NOT changed to curves, highlighted in gray (grouped for text editing). The top line is text I created in Corel (didn't have this font on the Gravo computer) and imported into Gravo. To show you it works, here's a screenshot of my Gravostyle, with some lettering I vinyl cut for my nephew last night. Regardless, size doesn't matter, just change it after you've imported it! I do from Gravostyle, but not from Corel. In some cases (and I'm not sure why) you may have to resize your work area to 8-1/2x11 paper size. This even works creating PDF's from Gravostyle, which I didn't expect.
The neat thing about it is, if your program outputs via a print driver, or CAN output to a normal printer, it will (or should) output your vector files as vector files, and you can import them into Corel no problem. When you install it, it simply becomes one of your "printers". It's free, and will convert virtually ANYthing you can print to a printer, to PDF. I use a print-to-PDF program called CC PDF Converter. Phooey on that what you need is a separate PDF converter. Some 'save as PDF' options in graphics programs save screenshots as bitmaps, which is probably how your program is doing it.
Many of those tutorials employ Inkscape to do the tracing some tracing routines do better than others so you might try the tracing in Inkscape, AI, or similar if you just can't get it working satisfactorily in CD.Īlternatively, it appears that the older v1.9 of Silhouette actually has SVG (scalable vector graphics) output so you might look for an copy of that.
There are many tutorials on the general process of exporting a bitmap (PDF, JPG, PNG) from Silhouette and then tracing to create vectors. You didn't provide an example of the design that didn't trace well for you so not able to address that directly but you may just need to export at higher resolution or tweak your tracing parameters. But yes, for cutting, you will want a vector format. It didn't trace very well.You don't need to trace the design for rastering, you can use the bitmap from the pdf for that. I was able to print one to PDF and then open it in Corel. I need them in a file type such as dxf to be able to raster them. I cannot find a way to convert them in a simple manner as of yet. I prefer not to have to redraw all of the designs in Corel. I have many designs that I would like to convert from Silhouette studio files to use in Corel draw for cutting and etching on the laser.
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