| WinPCSIGN Basic v/s Apprentice (Vinyl Express) |
| Features |
Basic
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Apprentice |
| Compatible / Cut and Paste |

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| Vinyl Color Library / 32-Bit Code |

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| Animated Previews / Editable Guidelines and Grids |

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| Borders - Basic / Easy to Use Measuring Tool |
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| Unlimited Undo and Redo / Unlimited Scaling |

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| Complete Object Layering Control / Rotate |

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| Mirror Imaging / Multiple Documents Interface |

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| Online Help / Design Central / Case Conversion |

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| Interactive Cutter Control / Simultaneous Cut & Design |

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| Pen Fills / Automatic Color Separation for Cutting |

|
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| Power Weed / Automatic Registration Marks for Cutting |

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| Automatic Horizontal & Vertical Tiling |
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| Complete Text & Graphic Layout / Use TrueType or Type 1 Fonts |
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| Uses Fonts installed on your computer (Auto Font Import) |
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| 51 + Import / Export Filters (EPS, DXE, etc.) |
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| Node Edit / Duplicate / Print to Printer for Proofs |
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| Drawing Tools / Shapes: Circles & Rectangles |
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| Auto Pre-feed |
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| Dictionary |
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| Kiss cutting option |
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| Engraving functions |
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| Intelligent search of your logos |
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| Logos ready to cut and print |
500 |
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| New logos gallery, (purchase and sale logos) |
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| Italic and Rotation in visual mode |
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| Copy properties |
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| Multiply copies. circulars, lines, etc |
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| Cut shape with a straight segment |
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| Cropping image with rectangle, circle, oval |
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| Ant-aliasing display |
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| Edit and draw nodes of beziers, segments, arcs |
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| Rotation on color gradient |
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| Distortions, Outline, Contour with welding, Shadow, Gradient |
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| Draw arrows, stars, polygons, ellipses, circles, rectangles |
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| Cutters drivers installed |
511 |
1 |
| Cut & Print all TrueType and Adobe fonts |
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| Cutting by colors and objects |
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| Choice of 5 cutting and printer register marks |
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| Multiples weeding contours |
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| Verification of alignment of the cutters |
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| Zoom details in the cutting panel |
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| Edition and special effects on the images (noise,emboss, etc.) |
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| Convert object to image (BMP/JPG ) |
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| Change resolution and color of the image (bits, dithering, etc) |
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| Import / Export Bmp, Jpg, Tiff, Eps, Pcx, Wmf, Wpc, Vip |
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| Import vectorials files Eps, Ai, Dxf, Prn, Plt. Wpc, Vip, etc |
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| Import PDF vector files |
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| Visual text spacing |
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| Dimension-lines (see and print measurements) |
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| Production printing sheet |
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| Customer folder (jobs, notes, etc) |
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| Lines guides simple and magnetic |
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| WYSIWYG pasting, text layout |
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| Cut, Copy and Paste text, object and image |
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| DVD-Rom multimedia training |
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| Complete online help |
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| Color scanning & black/white. |
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| Digital cameras import |
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| Access to all True Type fonts on your computer |
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| Top quality MAX fonts |
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| Engraving options, Filled, and Fonts |
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| Separate text in characters, word, line and outline |
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| Creation slide show |
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| Creation and edition of template (business card, label) |
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| Real size of construction point selection zone |
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| Print catalogue of group of logos |
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| Convert a segment to Beziers, in Arc and Bezier with a click |
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| Save document advisor |
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| Simple interface to write any text on path and circle |
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| Different types de brushes ( Lines, squared etc) |
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| Manual vectorization |
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| Automatic clean up of vectorizing path |
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| See opened path (unsnap |
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| See direction path |
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| Automatic numbers production |
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| Lock and unlock selected object. |
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| Digital cameras |
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| Create and see images for web (html, Jpg, Bmp, etc) |
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| Creation of circles with separated arcs |
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| Design center; Outlines, Shadows |
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| And more |
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