Owner`s manual

MaxMotion for Machines Appendix B-217
(15) My customer is working with a Macintosh computer. Can I
accept jobs created on a Mac and engrave/rout on my PC with
MaxMotion?
Absolutely, yes. Ask your customer to design the job in Adobe Illustra-
tor or Aldus Freehand or Deneba Canvas or Broderbund TypeStyler or
Claris Draw. Ask the customer to convert the job to Bezier curves or
outlines. Next, the customer should transfer the file to a PC formatted
floppy disk with the help of standard Mac/PC exchange utility.
MaxMotion will open the file without any modifications. Scale and
prepare the file and send it to the machine.
(16) Cannot open a graphic file that was scanned and vectorized.
What am I doing wrong?
There are a number of things to consider.
(1) MaxMotion is set up with the maximum shapes in a file to be no
more than 4,000. This is a reasonable number for a typical graphic file
and the RAM memory size generally available in a typical PC/Win-
dows computer. The setting is in the INI file provided with the applica-
tion. If the file is suspected to have more than 4,000 individual shapes,
the number of Maximum Shapes in the INI file can be changed to a
suitable number.
(2) The best vectorized EPS files are the ones with the minimum
number of nodes that are required to define the shape of a graphic. Too
many nodes will slow down the engraving process. Older versions of
Corel Trace program and some of the third party conversion processes
yield shapes with a simply too many nodes. Microsoft Windows screen
management limits the number of nodes allowed per shape. Make sure
and demand a good quality with minimum nodes in a vectorized EPS
file.
(3) Use programs like Adobe Streamline version 4.0 or higher with
settings suggested in this manual. It is one of the best but a very
reasonably priced program we have found in the market.