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CMYK/Contour File Name

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blyt76 Posted messages 199 Status Member -  
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Hello everyone,
In Illustrator CS6, I opened a file that was sent to me. This file is intended for printing on T-shirts. Basically, the letters are white and there is no background. The letters are solid (white).
I would like to know what the text in parentheses after the file name (CMYK/Outline) corresponds to. How do you obtain it, and what is its purpose...

Thank you in advance.

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    contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   6 243
     
    If it's in the file name, it was intentionally added by the graphic designer who created the file as an indication...

    Now, if they are white letters for a t-shirt, it depends on the printing method: screen printing or vinyl cutting... in one case it's a surface (regardless of the color in Illustrator) and in the other case, it's a trace for cutting with a specific name (CutContour) for the VersaWorks software, for example.
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    1. blyt76 Posted messages 199 Status Member 9
       
      I am not sure if it is the author of the file who renamed the file. Because when I open a file in Illustrator, there is in the tab corresponding to my file (just above the horizontal scale): "filename.ai @ ...% (CMYK/Preview)" and in the one I am talking about: "filename.ai @ ...% (CMYK/Stroke).
      When I open it in Illustrator, I have my artboard in which there are the letters (vectorized) which have a black outline on my screen but have no stroke if I look in the stroke palette. On the other hand, they have a white background.

      I do not know the cut contour formula and I do not know the printing mode either. I will inquire.

      Thank you for your response Contrariness.
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    2. blyt76 Posted messages 199 Status Member 9
       
      I just realized that the Ctrl+Y shortcut allowed me to switch from one to the other.
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    3. contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   6 243
       
      Ah.. it's not the file name that is found at the top of the tab, it's the viewing mode.. it toggles between "Outline" and "Preview" (menu "view/preview-traces")

      The trace visualization allows you to see surfaces that have no color or a white color. However, it does not allow you to visualize the thickness of the traces.
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