Hello,

I am working on a combination scene of several bmp images. When I put them together I have to use the shape tool and change a few node positions so things will line up and not over lap in areas. I have done this many times. Today and yesterday when I did this the area in the nodes looks fine, but when I print to the regular printer and the laser both, I get the nodes filled in solid with black. No image. It seems only a few of the images do this. All where changed with the shape tool.

Does this make sense? Is there some way I can change the nodes positions and have the image stay the same and not become a black blob? They still look fine on the screen, just print like filled boxes.

HELP, as usual, I need this today and am stuck!

Any help I would appreciate.

Aleta

Well, I am replying to myself! :S But, Never mind, I figured out a way around it , SO, I am back running! :-)

Aleta

Well, I am am sure why and how this works, but, more then happy to share, I hope it will not make me sound to dumb! :P

In Corel Draw I selected the image, converted to bitmap, went to trace and then pasted in new item, then ungrouped. This got rid the of the blob box. Why I had to do this, I am not sure, as the item was a .bmp image to start with and on the screen looked fine.

I think this was something over my head, but, for whatever reason, this worked and the job is done and gone! The customer was very happy with it. :>

One tip, I didn't know until this, if you print the job on your printer first, you can see that the image is a blob and not correct, before engraving and learning the hard way. Now what all the reasoning was, no idea! :S