Signs Down Under

Hello everyone, my name is Gary from Melbourne Australia. Have been checking out this forum for some time and decided to join. Looking forward to chatting.

No problem Vinyl Tree.

Ok, if you look in SignBlazer help file under zooming it's basically saying what l said but also talks about your mouse settings in control panel and needs to be default settings for it to work.

Well have spent hours trying to recover fonts not showing in the text dialog box, have tried absolutely everything even though they show in SB fonts folder. It all started when l tried installing more SB fonts that l have from previous software, thought it wouldn't be a problem since they are SB fonts but now l only get about 10 fonts in the dialog box and they look like the ones you get above the line for the last few fonts you have used, underneath those there is nothing. I have tried loading into windows fonts as well but still no luck but they do show in corel x4 and Flexi 8.5 starter. I have SBE on a desktop but have bought a new larger cutter and wanted to run everything off my laptop so l downloaded SBE from uscutters, my intention was to design everything in SBE and export into Flexi starter for cutting since SB doesn't have my cutter listed. SB was running perfect with the 200 fonts you get with the download until l tried adding more SB fonts, l have even tried 4 fresh downloads hoping that would fix the problem. I have used SB for a very very long time and this has never happended to me before, so if this cant be fixed SB is absolutely useless to me if l have no fonts. I have posted here previous about the problem with no reply as yet, I'm very behind with my work at the moment because of trying to fix this. I love this program but l think it's with great regrets l might have to delete SB and use corel for all my design work eventhough I'm not as efficient with it, SB is so easy to get around. If anyone out there has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated. Gary.

G'day eagle 1, Your's is 06 which l think was compatible with Xp and Vista. Mine is SB Pro 05 on the disk is says Windows 95/98/NT4. I have this still on a Windows 98 machine, mine is more of a software lock that plugs into l think by memory LPT1 which has a lock number then you run your cable from that to the cutter, l used to have a Roland camm 1 back then, l think pnc 1000 so not sure how l would get around that to run on Vista, don't think l can. Ps.... l live in Sunbury just past the Tulla Airport.

Hey Vinyl Tree, I'm in Sunbury near Tullamarine Airport. Where are You

Thanks to you who helped. I have figured it out l went to Hot Shot demo and in the dialog box l selected "Show all TTF fonts" then went back into Elements and sure enough there they all were. There was no need to put them in windows fonts, now in the drop down dialog box l not only have heaps of window fonts but also show all of my 1200 SB fonts, the only exception is before it said sbf_ then the name of the font as well as the number, now it only has sbf_and what ever number the font is..... maybe if they were in the windows fonts this would fix it, will check that out but for now I'm just wrapped. Hope this helps anyone having the same trouble. Just have to get the cutter working in SB now !! Thanks all. Gary.

Thanks Pat will give that a go later, will let you know how it goes. Gary.

Hi have just checked the SBE on my desktop and could be the same one that's on the SignBlazer thread. It has heaps of cutters on there including CT 1200 as you mentioned. This is the one l paid for from Jerry Bonham in 2008 when he had his eBay store, l don't have a disc for it as back then it was a digital download and after l paid for it Jerry sent the activation code. Could l copy the installation file from the desktop and load onto the laptop, if so would l still need to put in the activation code, not sure if l need to now. Do you think l could get my cutter to run off the CT 1200 option. If l did do this does that mean it would no longer work on my desktop because back then if you put it on another computer it would no longer work on the original computer you loaded it on. I also have SB pro with Hot Shot 5.0.28 with a upgrade disc to 5.1.19 that l have on a old windows 98 computer which uses a dongle key and have the lock and password numbers, bought this from Jerry years ago when he had his shop. Too bad l couldn't use that in Vista.

No l just downloaded from US cutters. How do l get to that one. Also l have a CR 1200 not a CT model or could l use that.

Thanks Pat appreciate it. Gary.

Sorry Speedoggy all new at this but will get the hang of it. Didn't notice you could add that info but have done it now. Gary.

Hi how ya goin, thanks for the reply. Yes tried that but now they are all showing in corel and flexi. I have SB on 2 desktops and they don't need to be in there SB has its own font folder under SBE, these are original SB fonts and they are ttf. If you can see my previous post about the problem as well. When l downloaded from usc fonts where sitting in that folder same as my other computers.

Sorry just read your question again l may of misunderstood. If your talking about zooming hold the cursor over an area you want to zoom and roll the wheel back a notch at a time doesn't have to be selected, you may have to give the wheel a click first, to zoom back go forward a notch at a time. Another way is to hold your cursor over the area hold down the control key and right mouse click to zoom, each click zooms by 2. you can then press f8 to go back to the original view. To zoom a selected area press f10 and f8 to return. Hope this answered your question.

Hi there, l have SB on 2 desktops and a laptop and all do the same thing. There is nothing wrong with your mouse. Hold down the wheel without rolling and just move the mouse up or down or any way you want to move it, this puts it in the Pan Mode. when finished just release the wheel, this is the easiest way. You can also find the Pan Mode under view. Cheers, Gary.