I have a problem importing fill patterns into Lightburn.
I create a rectangle in Illustrator and fill it with a pattern.
If I now insert it into Lightburn, I only get a black rectangle or the border line, depending on the fill/line setting.
I also exported to svg, pdf, dxf with the same result, whereby the files are exported correctly and are displayed correctly in the corresponding programs.
Yes, don’t we all?!. That was the only way I found to get it into a vector format. I didn’t know whether you had tried that workflow and I was merely putting it forward as an answer to your question. It’s far from ideal but it is the only solution I’ve found.
Thanks Marcus, it would be great if it worked directly. I think LB only imports the frame and not the pattern. So I asked the question to support. I will post the answer here too.
No problem. As I said: I don’t have access to Illustrator or know what it can or can’t do and have no way of testing. However it seems to be exactly the same issue with CorelDRAW. I have tried just about all of the available vector export formats in Corel but I get the same result with all of them, i.e. no vector fill. Some automatically rasterise the fill and some just ignore it. The interesting thing is that if I export as PDF then the fill is exported as vector. The issue is that I still haven’t found a way of importing this PDF into any other application with the vector fill intact.
Hi Marcus!
Thanks for the information, I thought Corel could do it. I posted the problem in my favorite laser forum and a colleague imported my file into Corel and then exported it as svg. I imported this into Lightburn and it worked.
Best regards from Austria
Johann
Ah! Thanks for the update. That’s interesting. I was just posting some more of my findings when your last reply popped up. I would have posted earlier but I had to go out for a few hours.
I have found that if I export from Corel to PDF I can then use an online converter at pdftosvg.com to convert to svg. I can then open that in Inkscape, ‘Pop selection out of group’ then re-save. I can then open it in LB with the vector fill intact.
Now, I’m not saying this is a practical solution but it shows that it could technically be done automatically on import by an application (LB in this case). Hopefully the LB coders can implement it so that it works for Illustrator and Corel generated files Perhaps it needs adding to the Feature Suggestions site.
Well done, I’m glad you found a solution for Illustrator. I need to find a simpler and more reliable method for CorelDRAW as when I tried my method posted earlier on a real design it didn’t work
I to find the operations a bit clunky. I import a bmp and trace and then if I need to import it back to coraldraw I export as an svg. Then in coraldraw I convert it to a bmp again so that I can load the image for viewing on my website. I then have to import the file into rd works to produce a good quality inverted bmp for the website as I have debossed and embossed options for my products what a faff!
Perhaps it needs adding to the Feature Suggestions site.
