Vertical Japanese Text Causes Excess X Axis Movement

[earthandocean (Mark Terry)]

I’m having an issue with running a project with vertical Japanese text. The text causes the gantry to seemingly across move along the entire X axis for each interval, causing the project to take much longer than it should. This occurs with kanji, hiragana, and katakana, in both SVG files (with text converted to outlines) outputted from Adobe Illustrator cc 28.1 (most recent version. for Mac OS Big Sur-- haven’t updated to Ventura yet due to laziness and slow satellite connection). Photos attached showing movements in preview window, as well as the bounding box and selection area in AI being tight to the glyphs, unlike many fonts.

I figure I could still run it as is, but obviously this is not ideal and shouldn’t be happening. I figured I could probab

ly rasterise the the text into a bitmap, but I’d rather keep it as a vector. Any suggestions for how to fix it would be appreciated.

[gilaraujo (Gil Araújo)]

You need to change your settings from mm/sec to mm/min

You are trying to run them HUGELY fast

[earthandocean (Mark Terry)]

LOLS@ME! Thanks for the simple suggestion, I changed the setting and altered the value to 6000 mm/m which fixed the issue.

[gilaraujo (Gil Araújo)]

one day… in a future not too far far away
We can have desktop diodes at 6400mm/sec…
but not yet there

[MikeyH (Mike Hembrey)]

@gilaraujo

one day… in a future not too far far away

We can have them now. It will just be a laser light show instead of an engraver. I expect a quantum leap in diode power any day now.

[JMartin (Jim Martin (LaserWolfe))]

@gilaraujo

one day… in a future not too far far away

They’ll be called Laser Stamps.