Interesting. There is a difference, however, in how Designer 1 and 3 treat the floor feather. Designer 1 actually adds a border of floored pixels to the pattern. If the pattern was created in Designer 1 and then used in Designer 3, I think the floored border comes as part of the pattern and cannot be turned off. I have had to use the trim tool in PE to restore the pattern. I experimented quite a lot with this (not that I can remember what I did) when I was trying to convince LHR to abandon the floor feather in 1.187.
Now that's interesting - I didn't know that about Designer 1. I did create the pattern and mpc in Designer 1. Attached is the "raw" image that I imported into Pattern Editor to make the pattern. I just tried importing the image in Designer 3, and it appears in the rendering that applying Bit Optimization: Best does not add a ridge, but I think I will try carving a sample to see.
My image has white pixels at the shoreline. I just import it and send it to the library in the pattern editor. I invert it when I place it on my board. So what exactly would Designer 1 do to this image? Is black or white the "floor"? A row of what color pixels are added? Is it something that I can see if I export the pattern as an image?
Hmm. I tried turning off the optimization and it there is a noticeable difference how jagged the lines become. It looks fine from a regular view but if you zoom in and turn the board a bit it's really rough. I don't know how noticeable this will be in the completed sign.
I just packed up 10 city name signs to go under a multinational company's clocks and they had a similar request (ship tomorrow). I did raster puffed and inverted. Nice and round bottomed and the edges were not ragged like a plain raster.
Clint
Thanks Clint, I may make a few last minute adjustments but it's looking pretty good in designer. I'm going to try and run it tomorrow and I'll post a picture here how it turns out. Is puffing an add on? I don't believe I have that option.
When I import a line art image and I out line it and want to carve it 1/8 inch deep (image is 12x12 inch) and upload it it takes 3 hours est to carve. when I take the same amount of line that I draw in designer it est. about 6 minutes The lines around the image raw are thicker.Any way in Designer to make the lines trace small Thanks Bert