Scrid Vector

[Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.)]

I need somebody to look at this, It keeps gertting rejected by the t-shirt company. They say:

All visible lines and individual components of the design must have a minimum width of 1.5 mm. Texts must be at least 10 mm high. This absolutely necessary because plot printing is a special kind of process. These requirements are not yet met with the present scaling of the design.

I thought it didn't matter what size the fucking thing was if it was a vector! http://www.poee.co.uk/images/scrid.eps

[Mangrove]

I need somebody to look at this, It keeps gertting rejected by the t-shirt company. They say:

All visible lines and individual components of the design must have a minimum width of 1.5 mm. Texts must be at least 10 mm high. This absolutely necessary because plot printing is a special kind of process. These requirements are not yet met with the present scaling of the design.

I thought it didn't matter what size the fucking thing was if it was a vector! http://www.poee.co.uk/images/scrid.eps

i looked at it!  

on the upside, i think it's very cool.

on the downside, i know NOTHING about computer art/graphics and thus unable to solve your vector problems. (sorry syn')

please, talented art/computer people - help syn' realize his lifelong ambition to make scrid shirts!

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

I don't even know which program opens *.eps files

If they are using a silk screen methond of some sort, that might explain it, detail finer than a certain limit will not show up, but them telling you the same thing over and over isn't helping you.

[fluffy]

try converting it to another format rather than eps

[the other anonymous]

%%BoundingBox: 0 0 463 648

The problem may be user-coord scale.

PostScript specifies 72 units per inch.

EPS probably shouldn't be treated that way, though, but it might be.

Just use the "-e -c -q" options to get a plain EPS dump and look for the scale command near the top. Adjust it until everything meets the specified criteria.

[LMNO]

I need somebody to look at this, It keeps gertting rejected by the t-shirt company. They say:

All visible lines and individual components of the design must have a minimum width of 1.5 mm. Texts must be at least 10 mm high. This absolutely necessary because plot printing is a special kind of process. These requirements are not yet met with the present scaling of the design.

I thought it didn't matter what size the fucking thing was if it was a vector! http://www.poee.co.uk/images/scrid.eps

It seems to me, after googling "Plot Printing", that the problem is purely physical.  The machine that applies the flock or flex print can only manage down to a certain limit.  Think of it like trying to do a fine line drawing with a crayon.  You have to have a minimum size in order for it to reproduce, otherwise it's just a ball of illegible mush.

[Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.)]

%%BoundingBox: 0 0 463 648


The problem may be user-coord scale.

PostScript specifies 72 units per inch.

EPS probably shouldn't be treated that way, though, but it might be.

Just use the "-e -c -q" options to get a plain EPS dump and look for the scale command near the top. Adjust it until everything meets the specified criteria.

erm... I used potrace by dumping my .bmps on the icon. I've never used the command line. Without this there will be no Scrid shirts. They say they'll fix it for me, but want to charge £10 per half hour they work on it!

[Mangrove]

%%BoundingBox: 0 0 463 648


The problem may be user-coord scale.

PostScript specifies 72 units per inch.

EPS probably shouldn't be treated that way, though, but it might be.

Just use the "-e -c -q" options to get a plain EPS dump and look for the scale command near the top. Adjust it until everything meets the specified criteria.

erm... I used potrace by dumping my .bmps on the icon. I've never used the command line. Without this there will be no Scrid shirts. They say they'll fix it for me, but want to charge £10 per half hour they work on it!

this is a worrying development.  

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

%%BoundingBox: 0 0 463 648

The problem may be user-coord scale.

PostScript specifies 72 units per inch.

EPS probably shouldn't be treated that way, though, but it might be.

Just use the "-e -c -q" options to get a plain EPS dump and look for the scale command near the top. Adjust it until everything meets the specified criteria.

If Syn sends you the file can you do this bit for him?

[the other anonymous]

If Syn sends you the file can you do this bit for him?

He had the link up top. I'll put the mod in my DA scraps for now:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/24578073/

If it still doesn't work, just open the file in whatever text editor and change the magic number (3 dup scale) and update the bounding box (the original times the magic number).

(If you get to "72 dup scale" and it still won't work, you may have to change the image to widen the thinner lines and just submit a PNG.)

[the other anonymous]

erm... I used potrace by dumping my .bmps on the icon. I've never used the command line.

*sigh*

I started on one (Apple2c), moved to a different one (MS-DOS), got schooled on another (SCO), and had a lot of fun on the best (Linux/Bash).

GUIs are fun too... if all you like to do is watch porn and play MP3s...

[Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.)]

Sorry, command line is for geeks with supple wrists. I'm a wanker, therfore my wrists are abused and no good for command lining.

Thanks for the mod. I'll see if they accept it.

[the other anonymous]

The good money says they won't. If they do, I bet only part of it gets on to the shirt.

And you don't need good wrists if you know how to support yourself.

[The Open Bar]

we want scrid! we want scrid! we want scrid! we want scrid!




that is all

[Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.)]

Nope, still not right. I made a few alterations. Removed shiny bits in eyes and scrid badge, but no dice. I just don't have a fucking clue about vectors.

Sorry Mang. This is a high priority for me as Scrid is one of the best things I've been inspired to design. I just don't do vectors outside of dumping bmps through potrace.