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by dmurray407
Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:31 am
Forum: General
Topic: Making bigger designs fit 6x12 mat
Replies: 2
Views: 1467

Re: Making bigger designs fit 6x12 mat

Thank you so much, HeatherM :)
by dmurray407
Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:39 am
Forum: General
Topic: Making bigger designs fit 6x12 mat
Replies: 2
Views: 1467

Making bigger designs fit 6x12 mat

I know there has to be an easy way to do this. I have an original Cricut so can only use a 6x12 mat. I just downloaded SCAL 2 yesterday and really am clueless. I have some designs (.svg files) that are larger than that (for example 14.4x14.2). I need to break the parts up and make separate "pag...
by dmurray407
Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:44 am
Forum: General
Topic: What do I need???
Replies: 3
Views: 2094

What do I need???

I have the original Cricut with version 1.32 firmware, I have the Cricut Design Studio version 1.0121104.0 and I have the original Sure Cuts A Lot version 1.016. I don't use my Cricut a lot (obviously ;) ) but my grand daughters are really getting into making little scrapbooks so I think I will be n...
by dmurray407
Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Please Help Me Find a Tutorial . . .
Replies: 14
Views: 5142

Re: Please Help Me Find a Tutorial . . .

If you already have/know illustrator then use that because it integrates with Photoshop and saves as SVG. It is also a commercial grade program whereas Inkscape is, shall we say, quirky. (but, hey, it's free) png is also a bitmap format so that isn't going to work in svgfactory either. If you play ...
by dmurray407
Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:22 am
Forum: General
Topic: Please Help Me Find a Tutorial . . .
Replies: 14
Views: 5142

Re: Please Help Me Find a Tutorial . . .

This is interesting-I can't wait to try a few things out. Unfortunately, I'm in the middle of a nasty work stretch and won't be able to experiment until Thurs or Friday. Would Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw be better than Inkscape-it looked to me that they do basically the same things, just in diff...
by dmurray407
Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:20 am
Forum: General
Topic: Please Help Me Find a Tutorial . . .
Replies: 14
Views: 5142

Re: Please Help Me Find a Tutorial . . .

Wow! That sounds really easy-I'll check it out!
Thanks!
Deb
by dmurray407
Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:29 am
Forum: General
Topic: Please Help Me Find a Tutorial . . .
Replies: 14
Views: 5142

Please Help Me Find a Tutorial . . .

Hi all! I'm new to SCAL and this forum. I am fairly comfortable creating objects in Photoshop and would like to be able to use them in SCAL. I'm thinking of simple shapes like a 5 petal card to start. I'm sure that there is a tutorial here somewhere that can teach me how to convert an image to an .s...