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Actually it is possible to save a vector-based version of Canva documents using the free version. You have to export the document as a "PDF for Print."

I can't recall seeing the script in the attached image before. Anyone have any ideas? TIA for any help.

It's not difficult to make your own "section detail" drawings of channel letters. Plus, those kinds of things need to be able to be customized easily so the dimensions and specs can change. That's not easy to get from a piece of stock clip-art (especially something in a PDF). Every sign shop has...

For that kind of irregular surface, if the lettering is meant to hold up for many years I wouldn't use any sort of vinyl directly on the concrete at all. Masking and painting is one possible solution. But I would try to get them to consider using flat, routed letters and stud mount them to the...

I swear I've seen this typeface before; I think it's something that has been around a long time too. At first glance I thought it was Stone Sans, but that's not quite it. Cronos Pro also has a similar looking "P" but is even farther off the mark. The various online font matching services are...

It's a bit different than Coolvetica.

It looks like one of the Brainreactor fonts. Neutronica-Geometric.

I'm surprised companies like Toyo and Trumatch haven't been able to put much of a dent in Pantone's dominance of color libraries for print. Pantone has been around for a long time though. Back when graphics production work was done using analog methods it was common for employers to require...

Matching Pantone colors (or getting as close as possible) is very critical when handling a major company's brand assets. Some of these clients will do sign companies a favor by also having other material specs in addition to the Pantone colors. Those could be opaque and translucent vinyl colors...

So far I have avoided signing up for Pantone Connect. I think it's a rip-off. They want $180 per year for some digital swatch books? On top of the $200 or so it costs to buy a physical set of Pantone Color Formula Guide swatches? No thanks. Aside from that I've seen all sorts of complaints...

GPL palettes are a GIMP and Inkscape thing. I suppose various fanboys can craft their own custom palettes of Pantone spot colors. But it's going to be their own judgments (or guesses) on RGB-CMYK-L*a*b values with how those palettes work rather than getting the legit values from people at...

I think which ever "decider guy" at Pantone dreamed up this business strategy must have been spending a few nights sleeping in air-tight plastic cleaners bags before fever-dreaming up that ploy. Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator are all very dominant in the specific graphics industry...

All the mergers, buy-outs and monopolization will lead to ever more financial squeezing of end users, customers, etc until we end up in our next great depression. This private equity mindset or ideology that has infected much of the business world knows no sense of balance. These greedy idiots...

Regarding the original first post, the designer who chewed out JBurton should have known better about the Pantone thing a couple of years ago when the first warnings were issued. I made backups of the Pantone ACB files from Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Many other Adobe software users did...

Oh yeah. For something that hits closer to home, look at what has been happening to the type industry in recent years. Monotype has been buying up other type foundries for the past 20 years, but their rate of buy-outs has increased noticeably in the past few years. Monotype also bought up the...

Fair comment versus money-making enterprise seems like a pretty clear difference. If you want to create some "fan art" and paint it on the side of your car or house you should be able to do that as long as you're doing that work yourself and not paying someone else to do it. I've heard stories...

No, it's not really all that different of a scenario. If you're selling a decal of a big company logo to a random customer you're the one selling the logo merchandise. Our shop has people coming in from time to time wanting a Harley Davidson logo graphic to stick on something. Or they want some...

Web searches via Google Images is helping get trademark offenders busted. Now these big companies can even use software bots to automatically sniff across the Internet doing image-based searches and compiling hits for possible violations. Visibility on the Internet is how a couple of companies...

Some performance issues with Illustrator can be solved by resetting the AI Preferences file when launching Illustrator. Use these keyboard shortcuts when launching the application, Windows: press and hold Ctrl+Alt-Shift; OSX: press and hold Option+Command+Shift. Doing this will reset the...

A year ago Wacom's tablet driver was really bad about making Illustrator disappear soon after launch. I had to roll back to an older Fall 2022 driver to get the crashes to stop. It took Wacom until around May of 2023 to release a Windows driver that wouldn't crash Illustrator. Graphics card...