Welcome to Steelsoldiers, dataplatesnet - Greg!
Good that you posted this, as I was thinking what to write here or not, to explain the actual situation (and your limitations)...
To all:
hopefully every company I had ever to deal with would be so quick to respond to emails...! And willing to spend so much time and effort in something bringing so little!...
I am the one who said that his prototype DP does not match the given size and proportions I had requested.
Besides font style and minor details the main thing is that in most cases we need to respect the existing hole pattern, plus overall outer dimensions and aspect ratio, of course. (see the differences, below)
After some email exchange I do understand now, that what I have done so far in BMP may look "correct" but does not help him at all. .... that we need any dataplate artwork made in CORELDRAW!
So my next step, now: see (eat) all these tutorials and hopefully learn (fast!) how to import a bitmap into CorelDRAW...!?
To Captn.Marion:
I have already done the homework for this particular dataplate, at least.
We need a volunteer to convert the original BMP file into vector graphics....!!!
G.