key cabin Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 Hi Chaps, I have got a chance of getting a big order with a new business that makes customised snare drums for customers, one of the criteria they are asking for is that the customer will require thier own signature on the drum plate. They have sent me a scanned signature, but, for some reason it will not engrave as just the signature but as a picture, this causes my engraver to engrave the plate as a picture and not as just the signature. Is it that the file they have sent me is in the wrong format (jpeg) or am i trying to bring it into my engraver as the wrong file format? I use the universal 300 using the vistool 8 program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 You'll need to vectorise it and convert to an .eps or .ai file using Adobe Illustrator or similar. Don't U-marq do a tablet that people can sign and it will put it straight into Vistool? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 My mistake, it was suregrave trotec that did a tablet you could write on and it would engrave as written Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 I scan it....File aquire.. it comes in as an outline but you could hatch fill it. we've had this discussion before somewhere.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 Import it as a picture, then trace picture hide pictures or leave it and you can move them out of the way after, then try fine medium and coarse settings to see which is best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenB Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 I love doing this type of job. As long as you have a good black & white image to work from, you'll be fine. JPEG, TIFF, any image format is fine. Go to Pictures > Insert Picture > & select the JPEG from where you've saved it on your PC. In the 'Import Picture' dialogue box that pops up when you've chosen the image, click on 'Trace' Click 'Okay & click on screen to bring up the 'Tracing Picture' dialogue - select 'Fine' & click okay. Your image now appears on screen as an outline. Click 'Shift + Q' to bring up the hatching dialogue, I'd use Hatching rather than Island fill, & use a tip diameter appropriate to the size of the text. Hopefully this helps, here's a screengrab of one I did last year on a wedding knife using the happy couple's handwriting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenB Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 Well, between us Gray, I reckon we've got that covered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 What I said but in more words and a picture. Next question Vistoolees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
key cabin Posted April 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2012 You lot are the best =D> =D> =D> =D> Job done and hopefully a big order in the bag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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