Depending on what you’re doing with that text, (engraving probably? cutting out?) you need to convert the text to shapes and then apply a stroke with no fill (for cuts) or a fill with no stroke (for engraves).Īlternately, you can export as pdf, and the UI will read your text OK (according to anyway, again, not an AI guy). You may have some font installed that the GF cant get access to etc. What the glowforge deals with are shapes. (and even then you will maybe want to expand that stroke (AI term that I have absorbed) to convert the little line segments to outlined shapes so you can cut them out.

I’m not an AI guy so I can’t tell you exactly how to do that, but the gist is that you will take your line, and then apply some command to break all the dashes up into their own little lines. The solution is to change the dashes to actual line segments and there you go, AI. So the glowforge says “aha a line” and will just treat it like any old line. The thing with dashed lines is that they are generally solid lines with a dashed “paint”, aka a stroke style.

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