double cut line in eps file for roland versaworks

[stef15071970]

Hey,
I use illustrator cc to create cutting lines to be processed with roland versaworks. line thickness 0.25 and I safe this as an eps file adobe postscript language level 3.

When I open this file with versaworks I sometimes have a dubble cutting lines, close to each other.

This is not always the case
How is this or what am I doing wrong?

[Ton Frederiks]

I agree that this .eps file also has the Illustrator native data embedded.

This file did not have the problem with outlined paths, just 2 paths combined in a Compound path (for whatever reason).

[Navigator7]

This issue has plagued me since my first CutContour file.
Just finished watching my Roland double cut my file knowing full well I had no duplicates in the layer.
Then, you come along and say CutContour data  must be "Paths" not "Compound Paths."
I never knew this.   Mic drop.  
I checked my file ....
Every single object was labled compound path!
I selected everything in the CutContour layer and relaesed Compond paths.
However, I had nothing to delete.  
Thanks a ton, Ton!

[saulc72992078]

I need to try it... but i cant really imagine it was such a "stupid" thing... I mean i even redo the logo as didnt know what i was doing wrong.. still dont now why i have a compound path... in any case many thanks!! i will do as u mention tomorrow in the office! many thanks!

[jordanw62458584]

I am having the same exact problem and do not know how to fix it at all. I put the cut-line on the file that I need then when I go to put it into a eps and then to  versaworks I open it and check it there is still a double cut-line. How do I get ride of it because my work deals with a lot of cut-lines so I need to figure out a solution.

[Monika Gause]

  schrieb

I am having the same exact problem and do not know how to fix it at all. I put the cut-line on the file that I need then when I go to put it into a eps and then to  versaworks I open it and check it there is still a double cut-line. How do I get ride of it because my work deals with a lot of cut-lines so I need to figure out a solution.

Without knowing your file nobody will be able to help you.

[jordanw62458584]

What do you mean because it happens to all my files when i go to put a cutline on it?

[Monika Gause]

Please upload a sample file. The AI version and the EPS.

[jordanw62458584]

it wont let me send the files

[Monika Gause]

Upload them to Dropbox, wetransfer or Google Drive and post a link here.

[jordanw62458584]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QrVESew1qQ_Ej8LdBNA2mb6FYq29XqQ0

Let me know if this works

[Monika Gause]

Please use the layers panel to analyze your file.

There are duplicates of your objects inside.

Also: you have applid transparency to the strokes (blend mode "screen"). That might cause errors as well.

[jordanw62458584]

When you doing a contour cut are you suppose to have dulicates or no? and where is the applied transparency and all that located? Thank You so much for you help by the way your being a great help

[jordanw62458584]

and would it be the same concept with this file that I am going to be sending you

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Llx5w33PEvrOvc0I_sCc4LI_WjzQmBUx

[jordanw62458584]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rC50l_Y-nxwiTJ9WK8RNOY7-w6bw7F2v

[Monika Gause]

How exactly will these other files be produced?

[jordanw62458584]

Like where the lines are but they are double cutting and there is a Ai and Eps

[Monika Gause]

jordanw62458584  schrieb

Like where the lines are but they are double cutting and there is a Ai and Eps

I don't understand this.

[jordanw62458584]

What do you mean how these files being produced

[Monika Gause]

  schrieb

What do you mean how these files being produced

Will they be printed? Or will you also send them to the plotter?

[jordanw62458584]

we print and cut our own stuff.

[jordanw62458584]

We use Roland Versaworks.

[Monika Gause]

jordanw62458584  schrieb

We use Roland Versaworks.

Then please read the Versaworks documentation on how to prepare your stuff. You need to do that and nobody can do it for you.

You need to make sure that your artwork meets the specifications, which can be:

- a path name

- a color (often a spot color)

- overprinting

- a layer name

- a layer position

- or maybe something else.

[jordanw62458584]

I have done this and there is still a double cut-line when we go to print

[Monika Gause]

WIth your first file: the duplicate is in the file and you need to delete it.

[jordanw62458584]

On my screen it is showing me a layer of the image and then on the other layer all I am seeing is the cutlines