Xtreme to Craft Cutter

**penmore** · 12 December 2007, 07:21 AM

I'm trying to import artwork created in Xtreme to the Studio software on my KnK craft cutter. At the moment the only option I have found works reasonably well is to save the artwork as a graphic file then do the cut lines in another piece of software the import them into my KnK software.

I'm using contours on some of the lettering and that seems to be where the problems are.

Anybody help with a easier method ?

**Albacore** · 12 December 2007, 08:40 AM

Firstly had quick search to see what type of cutter it is and found that it was a very simple cutter for T shirt transfer and paper. What type of files does your cutter or driver accept? The problem when cutting the contours maybe due to the type of font or not changing the contour to "Editable Shapes" and then "Un-grouping". Sorry I cant be more of help maybe Sledger who has his own Vinyl biz will be of help more than I was but I do know the certain types of fonts will cause problems when exporting as EPS and the easiest solution is to turn them into to shapes.

**penmore** · 12 December 2007, 08:51 AM

Hi,

The cutter software uses unique cutting files (.knk) and will import eps. I've changed the contoured text to Editable shapes and save it as an eps file. The only problem is when I import it into the cutter software it looses all the contour and text colours except the outlines.

I'm going to send two sample files to KnK support to see if they can find a way to import them without first converting them to a bitmap file. I've also asked them to look at the possibility of having an SVG file import facility.

Peter