Hi all, need my logo on Illustrator to be altered so its ready to cut on a vinyl plotter

Hi all, need my logo on Illustrator to be altered so its ready to cut on a vinyl plotter.
Logo is currently on Illustrator and im looking to remove lines etc (hoping you can help me with what to remove) then to copy over to my Dr Stika Program and then cut on my roland stika sx-15.
Many thanks

That’s a start. Show us the outline view as well.Essentially, you want your outline view to look like hairline outlines around all the black areas. Anything that’s white should be a lack of artwork, rather than white artwork. A better way to work is with the transparency grid showing so you can see where you need to get rid of white.
You want: No strokes. Nothing white anywhere. Anyplace shapes overlap you want the shapes merged into one shape, like below.

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Well, developing progresses and we have already reached some important milestones, but now we have a serious problem: We need a logo and a colorscheme for both our "identity" and the website of the project.
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nice, isnt it?
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Last edited by funkyou (2008-06-16 18:02:35)

arch0r wrote:
i think it should be much more visible, that "chakra" consists of the K for kde and the letters for "arch"
"A chakra is a center of activity that receives, assimilates, and expresses life force energy. The word chakra literally translates as wheel or disk and refers to a spinning sphere of bioenergetic activity emanating from the major nerve ganglia branching forward from the spinal column. There are six of these wheels stacked in a column of energy that spans from the base of the spine to the middle of the forehead. And the seventh which is beyond the physical region. It is the six major chakras that correlate with basic states of consciousness..."
by the way, arch live project with kdemod4 sounds kinda nice (hope it doesn't have a gui installer )!
Oh yeah, I forgot about that meaning for chakra.....

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