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I'm sure it's been asked before and I'm sorry to ask again but I've been trying and trying to weld words in SCAL.. I bought the program yesterday morning so I'm brand spankin new to it all.. I put up a letter and then click to make the box go away, next letter and then click on weld and bring it over the first one.. this doesn't seem to work at all.. please advise.. (oh by the way I know their is a movie on it but I have no audio right now on my system.. dah the cd broke for audio have to get one from the web and haven't had time. duh and duh again.. lol)

also when I go to do a shadow do I use the dimensions that are already their or does it have to be resized a bit bigger? Thanks alot - Sassy

Make sure your letters are touching each other or overlapped a small bit, then click on weld for EACH letter. (Click on the letter so you see the box around it, then click weld, continue with each letter until done!) Now, when you click on the preview you should see them all welded!

Oops, missed your 2nd question. No you don't have to resize when shadowing. Just click on the letter, copy and paste it and then click on shadow and choose was size you want by entering a number in the box to the right (don't use the arrows to make the letter bigger)

Hope this makes sense.

Thats basically what I've been doing but will give it another go around.. do you click weld when your bringing the letters together? or afterwards once their touching??

also I've been trying to work with dingbats. I'm not actually installing any of my fonts or dingbats what I'm doing is using AMP font viewer and it will temporarily install them for you and when your done it uninstalls.. The reason I'm doing is this is that I was told if you load too many fonts in Windows you will slow down your system.. How do you guys install yours, I have a trillion dingbats.. well anyways I'm temporarily installing the dingbats using this viewer and their not coming up in SCAL at all in fact the font viewer keeps crashing.. any suggestions or help here.. The viewer was working fine for fonts? getting frustrated here.. lol

robynann wrote:do you click weld when your bringing the letters together? or afterwards once their touching??

You can do it either way, the important thing is that weld is selected for each letter/dingbat. Also, check the preview before you cut to make sure you didn't miss anything.

robynann wrote:I'm not actually installing any of my fonts or dingbats what I'm doing is using AMP font viewer and it will temporarily install them for you and when your done it uninstalls.. The reason I'm doing is this is that I was told if you load too many fonts in Windows you will slow down your system.. How do you guys install yours, I have a trillion dingbats.

I have been using dingbats without installing them. Just open the font, minimize the window, then open SCAL or Inkscape. You have to open them before opening the program, and leave them open until you are done with them.

I finally got the hang of welding, thank you.. and the fonts and dingbats work great by minimizing like you said. Thanks so very much for all your help today..