Urgent Help Please - converting PS Shape to Vectors in Illustrator

Hi all, urgent help needed please. Thanks to anyone able to.
We have a Photoshop file which is essentially a Font typeface with some
emboss and white Stroke as an outline. The background is transparent. We
are having this urgently printed onto vinyl to affix onto a vehicle.
However the shop needs to cut the vinyl neatly around the white Stroke
outline, so the transparent background is just the car itself. This means
their machine will need to automatically cut around all the intricacies of
the letters that make up the wording.
They have complained that the PSD is not vectored and when they try to
import it into Illustrator, the resulting path looks horrible and we would
not be happy with it.
They need a vector outline of all the words to use as a path for the cutter.
Q: Is there a way we can automatically convert the outlines of our Stroke
(for the wording) and Shape (for another element) into a smooth vector path?
Thanks in advance to anyone able to help.
Matt

Jess Litlock

Re: Urgent Help Please - converting PS Shape to Vectors in Illustrator

Yep they are large - actual size in fact. I.e. the vinyl print is 75cm and
the PSD file is 75cm 300dpi. So, the path seems fairly hi-res and hopefully
will do the trick.
Matt


Matthew Wilson

Re: Urgent Help Please - converting PS Shape to Vectors in Illustrator

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This will create a path. Unless your letters are quite large, the text will
appear distorted. I'm guessing this is the problem the vinyl letter folks
are having.
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Mike Russell
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Mike Russell

Re: Urgent Help Please - converting PS Shape to Vectors in Illustrator

Thanks Mike. Wouldn't another way to do it be select using the wand around
the outline of the rasterized areas, then create new work path from that?


Matthew Wilson

Re: Urgent Help Please - converting PS Shape to Vectors in Illustrator

...
Provided your text is still a text or shape layer, and not rasterized,
delete all the layers except the text layer. You may need to alt double
click the background layer first. Then save it as an eps file, with the
"Include Vector Data" box checked. Send them the eps file, which should
make Illy happy.
If your objects have been rasterized, you're in an awkward position.
Although Photoshop will convert a selection to a work path, the result is
generally going to be sloppy. The easiest thing in that case is probably to
recreate the text and objects.
--
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/


Mike Russell

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