Creating a Laser Job from an Email

Here is the text from the email. I will have to format it again to get rid of all the spaces but the nice thing is that I do not have to retype the text into the job.

In your email client select the text that you want to use in your setup. There are two plaques in this job so I am going to bring in the the two jobs. Drag your cursor and select all the text. You can see that my selected text is gray.

Once the text is selected you need to copy the text to the clipboard so that we can transport the text from our email client to CorelDraw. Select EDIT (1) and than COPY (2)

Select the text tool in the toolbox (1) by clicking on the “A”

Select the Maintain Fonts and Formatting so that the formatting of the text in the email is carried over into the CorelDraw. You do not have to do this you can maintain the formatting such as boldness etc or discard everything and pick up Corel Draws default.

You can see that the text from the email came in complete. This means that I do not have to retype the text

I have formatted the text the way that I want it

Open you web browser and type in www.brandsoftheworld.com (1).

Next type in Lions “International” into the search box on the web site (1)

Seeing I am going to laser engrave this logo onto a piece of acrylic I need a black and white version of the logo (1)

When you click on the Lions logo you will now need to tell the website that you want the logo. Make sure that the logo is EPS rather than AI. AI files are not as good at importing into CorelDraw. Click on Download (1).

They make you repeat this step so select “I Agree” so that there is a checkmark there (1). Next Click on the Download button (2).

Next click on “Here” (1)

Now we need to save the file to our hard drive so select Save (1).

In this example I have selected the Desktop (1) than names the logo Lions International (2).

We need to import the EPS file into our job in CorelDraw so Select FILE (1) and than IMPORT (2).

Select the Lions EPS file and double click on it to start the import procedure.

Because we do not want the font information we can select the “Curves” option (1). Than click on OK (2).

Your mouse will turn into and inverted “L” along with a bunch of text that describes the logo in terms of its height.

We need to un group the objects in this logo so we need to select the logo

Go to ARRANGE(1) and than UNGROUP (2)

Once all the objects are ungrouped we can now select the outside box so that we can delete it.

We are now going to group the logo objects back together so select all the logo objects.

Select all the objects and than go to ARRANGE (1) and than Group (2).

With all the objects selected we can center them

With all the objects (logo and text) selected we can now align the centers. Go to Arrange (1). Next go to Align and Distribute (2) and finally Align Centers Vertically (3).

Now that our layout is done we can now send the job to our laser so that we can laser the acrylic blanks.

The only thing left to do is to send a confirmation to my dealer so that they can forward it to their customer. Select FILE (1) and PUBLISH TO PDF (2).

Give the PDF a descriptive name and save it to the hard drive

If you are working with colour photographs and you want to make the PDF file smaller than change the settings to Web (1) and than save the PDF (2)

Ok we want to send this file to our customer for approval. Select your email client. I am using Outlook but it does not matter.

Select new mail message

Select the File (1) and Insert (2)

Select the file that you want to embed which in this case is “lions order”. than click on insert (2)

You can see the file is attached (1). Now you can send it.