Roland CAMM-2 PNC-2300 Owner's Manual download pdf (Page 144)

144 MaxMotion for Machines

In order to view paths, pull down the Job Design menu and select View

Paths. All the text will be unfilled and outlines will be shown.

If ‘View Paths’ is on, the new blank lines created by auto layout are not

visible, since the empty line box is not visible in this mode. However,

if auto layout creates new lines, it is ensured that the empty line boxes

are visible, by switching ‘View Paths’ off.

Convert to Paths (F9)

A job created with text and graphics can be stored as you see on the

screen and can be sent to the engraving machine at will. For simple

jobs or jobs involving special single or multi-line engraving fonts there

is no need to convert the text or graphics to paths. MaxMotion will do

that in the background while sending job to the machine. Just viewing

the paths as described above may be sufficient for your needs.

However, if you are using any fancy TrueType or PostScript fonts and

you need to apply tool offsets and fill the characters or graphics with a

particular tool size in order to remove the top material or a two ply

material, you need to convert to paths. To use this command, select all

or some of the text boxes in your layout, then choose Convert to Paths

under the job design menu. These outlines can now be offset and filled

with proper size tools.

Once the text is converted to paths, it is not text anymore. You cannot

edit the paths as text. You cannot change fonts, size, alignment, or

kerning. It simply becomes shapes and curves.

However, now you can flip, rotate, and scale proportionally or non-

proportionally as any other graphic object.

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