For Rich and Dave:

Thanks for the suggestions,  LC is good enough to get me started.  I have made several small 8 inch by 12 inch signs and LC pocketed and did the islands perfectly.  This big sign used a different font and was much bigger, took two hours a 20 inches per minute....I,m going to try a different font and do it again.  great fun but a darn expensive and time consuming hobby...
Maybe Vcarve will have a sale this holiday season.. I'll wait and see...

Hi gumball
though new to this forum, I've suffered chronic CNC for some years

FWIW, I've just imported your DXF into VCP (4.6) and it ran flawlessly, both as a Vcarve and relief, no open vectors
if you're interested, give me a shout and I'll send you the gcode (not yet up to speed on posting files in this forum)

Regards, Lin