New name - .eps file for printers, how?

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Time for a new name on the bow, despite us speaking different languages the local printers appear to do vinyl for outside and need a vector file, *.eps works.
Libredraw can produce a .eps file, would that be suitable? Any tips?
Just black lettering & some little pattern outlines in black.
tia
 
I'm surprised your printers can't covert a pdf or any other graphics file to a vector file, my sign writer can. Most graphic design software will be able to handle the convertion. For printing pdf is fine with 300 dpi resolution. My printers accept PDF but suggest to blow up the actual size image 400% and it looks ok it's good to go. If you really need eps there may be some online converters. I would think libre office is ok but use the 400% test anyway.
 
GHA said:
Time for a new name on the bow, despite us speaking different languages the local printers appear to do vinyl for outside and need a vector file, *.eps works.
Libredraw can produce a .eps file, would that be suitable? Any tips?
Just black lettering & some little pattern outlines in black.
tia
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Draw Freely | Inkscape would be my choice of free software for this
 
Indeed, generating a .eps file should work.

But keep in mind that a letter/font in the pc is not yet a vector, you need to convert it.
Also, a square in inkscape may not a vector to start with.

In inkscape you can save a file as a pdf and check a box to do that conversion on export. You can also do it from somewhere in the menu, and it may be possible to do the same when saving as an .eps.
 
An eps file can contain both vector and rasterinformation; I suspect that your printers will be expecting a VECTOR eps file to generate the cutting line for the outline of the letters, so programs like Paint aren't suitable. I'd endorse the suggestion to use Inkscape; LibreDraw may well be fine too - I'm not familiar with it. You can probably even get away with PowerPoint.
 
I find the letters on my stern were done from a 3500 x 1300 jpeg (by Signs4u in Miller Court, Plymouth), and they seem to have come out perfectly.
 
You can export from Libredraw as numerous kinds of graphic file as used for vinyl creation - send them a selection including .eps .svg .pdf which are all available.
 
There is an online outfit in UK(?) that do's it by post.

Edit: It was a while back, but I got the SSR and name cut by a bloke with a desk in the underground car back of a supermarket in Portimao. (If you are still around the Algarve) no files, just told him what I wanted. Done in minutes. Same here in France, while I waited.
 
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Little Dorrit said:
I'm surprised your printers can't covert a pdf or any other graphics file to a vector file, my sign writer can. Most graphic design software will be able to handle the convertion. For printing pdf is fine with 300 dpi resolution. My printers accept PDF but suggest to blow up the actual size image 400% and it looks ok it's good to go. If you really need eps there may be some online converters. I would think libre office is ok but use the 400% test anyway.
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Libre office converts vector format images to à bitmap format internally. Sometimes the resolution is not great either but i have not tried very hard to find if there is a way to improve it.

This means your eps or pdf files will not have any vectors in them.
 
Why would Libredraw offer the option via EXPORT in the menu to convert to an .eps .svg or .pdf file if none of these work.
 
Google Draw (which is free) allows download as SVG which appears to be a perfect vector graphic file. The only downside is the fonts available are limited so if you have a specific font you want to use it may be a problem.
 
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