Peter Nermander sent > > > My idea was to use some kind of mask drawn with Scribus vector line tool > or by another program. The mask would be transparent where the cards are, > and colored in between them. > > The mask could be placed in a layer above the cards to be able to switch > it on or off, and when you export this document to a pdf, the cutter RIP > should be able to extract the mask's curves and use them for cutting. > > >I think that could work, if you put the mask on a separate layer it can be >toggled both for visibility and for print.
>Give it a try. >It might however be better to place a layer with the shaped ?paper? behind >everything (instead of putting a mask in front of everything). >But it depends a lot on what capabilites the RIP has. >/Peter I used to be a print broker arranging printing of clients projects back in the 1990's. One suggestion I might make would be to think of the old adage of using 'horses for courses'. I would suggest that SVG might be a better vehicle for this rather than PDF. I seem to remember that Inkscape has various tools to generate 'clipping paths' which are fully editable node by node. These tools generate files of co-ordinates compatable with industry standard cutters. HTH Ivan Winters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20170210/403b79a4/attachment.html>
