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Thread: Alternatives to RDWorks... is there something better?

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    I looked at a couple, they did have good instructions on export from inkscape and illustrator to insure fies import correctly. I hadn't seen any good instructions on arrays, I at least understand them and how to use now. Btw, it's about version 8.10 so rather old. I can't use Remote​ with it...
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    You are probably better off using RDWorks as simply a tool for sending a graphic job to the laser. Especially if you already know a program like Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator or Aspire. If you know one of those do your design work in that, send the job to RDWorks if you have a plug in for your software (like the Corel Plug in for RDWorks that works with Corel 7 or lower) Or import the piece into RDWorks and do any minor tweaking, like color(layer) assignments in there. And then send it to the laser.

    Just my take on the problem.
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