If cutting software is allowing png, it is doing an "autotrace" to convert it to vector first. Some programs, (Inkscape included,) can attempt to convert the png to paths, (vector,) but it doesn't always go well. You could use commercial vector software too, like Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw or Affinity Designer. Inkscape can export to eps so you can go around the svg limitation. Supplement it with Inkscape for designing, it is free. It sounds like your having issues with its design abilities.
Any help, I mean, if somebody has an advice in how to master a plotter that would be really useful as well.Īlso: I'm so sorry for the almost self-pity writing.
I don't wanna see that pricey machine get wasted. If somebody can recommend ANY Windows program (it looks like there're some more programs in Linux, I'm a Mint user, and I don't think that's possible making her to learn unix at the 60s being her world art and not computing) that could help I'd really really appreciate it.
I think we could afford a 20USD software or something like that, but of course we'd rather something free or with ads. Our country suffered a devaluation of about 50% past year, with no higher salaries, so everything from the US or Europe is even more expensive. svg and her machine, SeikiTech SK7-20T, but looks like almost all are payed and a lot of 'em hell expensive. I read a lot of forums and discussions about which is the best free software to use that supports. I tried inkscape and its plotter function and it doesn't work, I googled a little and I found out that is not a completely developed function, so I think that's why. What I think that would help us to overcome this bottleneck is a just decent, preferable after 2011, software. Sorry for these cathartic paragraphs, if it wasn't for her eager to work with vinyls I would give up without doubts. The fact that it doesn't support svg and png are the huge factors I think. Today we spent like the whole day trying to make steady lines with Artcut and it's impossible (we downloaded a bunch of different files from various stock images). It's like my grandma payed quite more for a machine that she couldn't use after six month of trying and trying and hours of youtube videos (I watch a couple of these videos and I don't get how she didn't throw away her phone, they are like 2009 videos with 144p quality). Today we discovered these awesome and easy to use machines Silhouette and Circut and after our huge struggling we couldn't believe the magic and ease of their software. We figure it out a lot of things but the program it's like unencryptable and hell completely of bugs and lackness of options, certainly it wasn't thought for Windows 10. So, now that I'm not living in in-board college I'm decided to help her. Every single vector file got distorted and it doesn't have svg support and worst, not even png support. She spent like 500 USD buying the machine (that's a lot here, she's in a 12 month plan to pay or something) but the machine, rather the software of the machine, Artcut 6 2009, is the shittiest thing in the world, literally. Since July, we're struggling a lot with the vinyl-cut world. Her intend is to make stencils, mandalas and then sell'em, she's a painting teacher so she has an easy access to that market. My grandma (65) bought a Plotter machine six months ago as part of her plan to survive after retirement because the pension she'll get in five years is not enough to live (although she works for +40 years).