Product

Pandora^® 2.5

Operating system

Mac OS^®

Symptoms

If a die has very small line segments in the lower-left corner, Pandora may generate negative bleed paths or may not be able to extract bleed paths.

Cause

This is a known problem in Pandora 2.5 and Pandora 2.5.1.

Solution

A workaround is available in Pandora 2.5.2. The bleed generation algorithm has a default tolerance of 4.5 points in the defaultuser.properties file. This can be changed to accommodates dies that exhibit this problem.

To correct a negative bleed problem, change the tolerance setting to a lower number (for example, to 0.5). To correct a failure to extract a bleed path, try changing the tolerance setting to a higher number.

To change the tolerance setting for dies:

1. With Pandora not running, use a text editor such as BBEdit^® or TextPad^® to open the defaultuser.properties file in the Pandora folder.
2. Locate the following line:
   DieExtractionSlopValue
3. Change the current tolerance setting to a lower or higher number as required.
4. Save and close the file.
   When you start Pandora, the new tolerance setting is used.

Technical contact(s)

Mat Gessel

Submitted by

Stacy Hays

Date submitted

12 Nov 2003