BigDon

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About BigDon

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  • Birthday 02/26/1955

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    Jesus Christ, graphics, photography, woodworking.

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  1. BigDon

    Need help importing eps file into sb

    Apparently this file was created with a new version of Illustrator - newer than my CS6 version anyway!! I could not open it with my Illustrator although I was able to open it with CorelDraw. Once opened, I saved it as a 1.0 version EPS. This file then imported into SB with no issues except that the color did not come in as blue. I believe that can be easily remedied in SB however. Logo-Octane-2.eps
  2. BigDon

    Moving Signblazer History

    There are two history files located in Program Files\Sign Blazer Elements. Don't know if those are the ones you seek or not... -DON-
  3. BigDon

    not cutting center of letters

    Rpguns, Photoshop doesn't do EPS! (E)ncapsulated (P)ost-(S)cript is already a post-script file . It sounds as if they may have exported as "paths to illustrator" (an option from within photoshop) but if my memory serves - this will only export an "outline" of the object. Had their file actually been a vector file, you 1-would not have needed to "convert" to vector, and 2-it should have ALL of the paths including the centers of the letters already there. You may try importing the file into Corel and then do a bitmap trace to see if that will give you the paths of the centers of the letters. Otherwise, if the font is a fairly common one, you may have to retype their lettering to get the centers to cut. Another option is, if you're good with the pen tool, you could try drawing the paths by hand and see how that does for you. -DON-
  4. BigDon

    Vectorizing and node help

    mr300s, Thanks for the link. That will be a lot faster for them to download than for me to try to email it to them!! Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!!
  5. BigDon

    Vectorizing and node help

    LDR, What type of image do you have? JPG, SVG, BMP, EMF, etc? It helps to know these things, not only for posting here, but for helping you with the steps to get the image into SB. Also, which state are you trying to outline? I have several states already in vector format to help you out if your time is running short for this project.
  6. BigDon

    Vectorizing and node help

    Lenny, Have you tried to vectorize the image directly inside signblazer? If you convert the image to a b/w, 2-color and then vectorize it, usually signblazer does a bang-up job of converting without any broken lines or vectors.... Just my three-cents worth!
  7. BigDon

    kryptec file

    Waldow1 - I presume you tried to attach a file to your post from your comments. However, there is no file there. Could you be a bit more SPECIFIC about what the problem you are experiencing is? Do you get an error message when importing the file?, does it import and nothing shows?, what file format are you trying to import? If you can't import it directly, I am sure someone here, myself included, will be most willing to help.
  8. If you have an old computer you no longer care about whether it gets infected or not - or you could rebuild easily - do a restore of your files to THAT machine, locate the files you need and copy them to a USB drive and onto your production machine! Running a restore against your production machine, even though it is to only restore graphic files, runs the risk of reinfecting it. (Those virus coders are sneaky little bas8$%ds!!!) When I was using MacIntosh on my laptop, I created a virtual machine into which I would copy all files destined for my Windows machine. I downloaded them, scanned them, installed them and gave them a test before they ever saw my production Windows box. If they were safe, I copied them to a USB drive and then did whatever I needed to. When I closed the virtual machine down, any virus that may have infected the OS was deleted because the virtual machine only existed for as long as I had it running. Mac wouldn't let anything get outside the virtual machine to infect anything else. The same concept will work with Linux using WINE. Merry Christmas to you and yours. May your New Year be bright and your wishes come true! (Perhaps the virus coders will develop a perpetual case of rotting fingertips so they can no longer type!!) Cheers! p.s.- Tell Santa I have been as good as I possibly could be this year - not perfect - but good, and still working on it!
  9. The PVB files are the ones I was trying to remember last evening. I seriously doubt there are anything resembling a graphic file in one of those, but you might try opening one with SB to see what is inside...
  10. My experience with SB is only a couple of years, so perhaps someone with more knowledge of the innermost workings can chime in. I have SB running on a Windows 7 Ultimate laptop with no issues I am aware of! There are some who have tried running it on Windows 8 and have encountered some issues. I know when I open a SB file on my desktop a file remains behind after I save a file. I don't know if that file may contain the images you're looking for or not. I'm not at my computer right now so I can't be of much more help (if I was of any help at all!!) Good luck with getting off of XP. It has been a workhorse for me...probably the best OS Microsoft has put out in a long time in my opinion!
  11. Sorry to hear of your tragedy! I have also been victimized by an occasional virus - but it has been quite a while. I understand the miscreants who create these bugs are becoming more and more devious in their programming to the extent they can actually lock your files and demand a ransom to unlock them. I have also heard they rarely ever provide the key to unlock your drive, so in effect, they have wiped you out and are stealing your money too! Anyway, I'm sure you've already thought of this, but have you looked in the SBD folder in the root of your C: drive? If, during your virus cleanup, you didn't delete that folder, there should be the original SBD files as well as some backups. If the originals were deleted and there are no backups, then you may have to resort to some sort of file recovery program. Although I have never had 100% success with them, they can be useful and may help you recover a portion of the files you may have lost... Also, check your trash can, unless you have emptied it already. There may be some files there you can restore. If your virus removal program removed the files thinking they were - or perhaps in fact were - infected with a virus of some kind, then there is no recovery option available because of the way those programs delete the files...they don't want someone accidentally restoring an infected file and re-contaminating the system. I gather from your tirade against the computer, the coffee cup, and the pooch - there were no backup files stored off-line???
  12. Yes, that's correct. I have a XP option there to choose from. (I run SB in normal Windows 7 - no emulation.) I am wondering if running in WinNT emulator mode if that would resolve the issues you're having...
  13. I Would think so. I don't have a Win-8 machine, so i was relying on what I saw in my Windows 7. Since NT was the closest release, I would give it a shot!
  14. Have you tried running SB in compatibility mode? If you right click on the.exe file - not the shortcut - the should be an option "run this program in XP mode" or wording to that effect. Supposedly Windows will then use memory and exection methods similar to XP.
  15. The tax man can do some real UGLY stuff to folks - even after they've died! A shame...a real shame.