We have recently produced and installed digital artist canvasses to showcase high quality German handcrafted beds and natural organic latex mattresses from Dormiente.

See below the vivid colours and pictures of the bedroom settings! Some of their details are zoomed up to 10 times without compromising the resolution of visuals while taking advantage of the canvas texture to give some depth.

Love the details of the light, gold and copper colors rendering!

Make a comparison of the colours and clarity of the original Dormiente visuals vs our canvas prints.

These canvas wrapped are from our first “full workflow” batch of Canvas Prints done with our new “brought back to earth” 12 color Canon pigment printer, extended gamut inks installed and, critical part, custom set of actions in Photoshop to take full advantage of this wide color range and of our 100% cotton canvas texture…

More examples coming soon and why not yours

We are currently reviewing our Artist Canvas printing products to offer more choices for Photographers, so as to avoid cropping etc…

Coming Soon so See you Soon

Example of generated paths:

See details and files for download in this very useful forum http://forum.oberonplace.com/showthread.php?t=24647

Let us know any comments either on the forum or by email at dev@plixo.com.sg.

I finally decided to tackle this issue to optimize productivity, reduce manual errors and allow our team to do more value-added of their precious time.

Good thing with CorelDraw is you can program your own macros in VBA, quite extensive sets of objects, pethods and properties, and reasonable performance.
Looking over internet, I found I was not the only one searching for this, but only a few full commercial solution were available.

So I coded it myself. Find below my 1st attempt.
Seems to work OK for only one level of inside shapes [by design] .
Will improve it when get more free time since most of our case are one level only so should solve the issue of my operator in 95% of the cases.

Here is an example: 

The main steps are:
1st stage:
- ungroup
- convert to curves
- break apart

2nd stage:
- parse all shapes and check if they intersect with eachother. If they intersect then either their intersection is equal to one of them i.e. this one is the fully included i.e. the hole, or the opposite, or it’s a real intersect that I don’t handle for now

3rd stage:
- in my case I change the outline color since this is used by the laser cutter to determine the order. Feel free to change to your own need.

Minimal error checking, no user interface for now.

Code:
Private Function POutlineInsideCurves(rangeToParse As ShapeRange, insideColor As Color) As ShapeRange

Dim s As Shape
Dim ss As Shape
Dim si As Shape
Dim sBreak As ShapeRange

Dim sCurves As New ShapeRange
Dim results As New ShapeRange

Dim i As Integer
Dim j As Integer
Dim count As Integer

‘Ungroup all 1st
Set rangeToParse = rangeToParse.UngroupAllEx

‘ Parse all shapes, put them as curves and break them
For Each s In rangeToParse
Select Case s.Type
Case cdrCurveShape
Case cdrRectangleShape, cdrEllipseShape
s.ConvertToCurves
Case cdrTextShape
s.ConvertToCurves
Case Else
‘ Should raise an error and display error message here
End Select

Set sBreak = s.BreakApartEx
sCurves.AddRange sBreak
Next s

‘ Parse all broken shapes and find which are insides
count = sCurves.count

End Sub

Actually, I’ve started writing a few extra macros, greatly inspired by the fantastic job of Alex and James [will let you find who they are ]

The plan is to distribute these macros for free when we will have a full set of them, and work on doing improved/faster one in C/C++ for professional use and sell them for a fee + include them with a line of laser cutter we hope to design in the next years, most probably based on an opensource design greatly scaled up ;-:

Alexis Martial
Managing Director and Crazy Encoder, Plixo