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It looks like someone grabbed Impact or Haettenschweiler and horizontally stretched the living hell out of it.

Letraset Revue is the original version of that typeface.

I'm having trouble trying to figure out the ID of this script typeface. It looks familiar, but I can't find any matches in Google Fonts among other places. TIA for any help. Edit: Never mind, I figured it out: Gistesy.

Aside from the issues in Corel Font Manager, I'm not seeing much in the way of slow-ness issues in CorelDRAW. Then again, I don't have a giant amount of fonts and an associated giant sized database for Corel Font Manager to load either. FWIW, I am running CDR 2022 on notebook and desktop PCs...

Corel Font Manager has all kinds of performance problems. So pointing Corel Font Manager to a font collection folder across a network connection to something like a NAS device is a very bad idea. The collection folder CFM "sees" needs to be on a local hard disc drive. I have a "active fonts...

Generally, I don't like doing projects for individuals that are for their own personal use. Working with businesses is easier and more profitable. Individuals wanting personal projects done very often don't value the time and effort it takes to produce the work. They may want to see lots of...

I'm not sure what the solution would be on the Mac side. If you could come across some old Mac-based installer discs you'll likely have to install FH in an old version of OSX running on a vintage Mac that still works. On the Windows side Freehand 7 probably wouldn't run on anything later than...

My guess is Don Henley. It kind of fits the narrative of some of his music (of which there is a lot that I like). That sounds like a business opportunity. Given what various materials like steel and aluminum are costing these days, there is a premium to be paid on scrap metal. If I was in that...

I'll usually make things like wall wraps or window wraps at the target full size in Photoshop. Then, via Adobe Illustrator, I'll paste any sets of AICB vector paths I need into the Paths Palette within Photoshop. That can include panel boundaries with the desired amount of overlap. If I need to...

As long as Corel is willing to sell that not-upgradeable $549 version I'll consider buying that versus paying $269 per year for a program with very little, if any, improvements offered at all. This 2022 "upgrade" of CorelDRAW is the most under-whelming I've seen in the 30-plus years I've been...

I intend to "sunset" my own personal perpetual license of CorelDRAW. At my workplace we have 3 current licenses of CorelDRAW, 2 on "upgrade protection," and 1 on subscription. We have a 4th license of CDR 2021 that I bought not upgrade-able for another workstation a few months ago. I'm...

Adobe published specifications of PDF 1.7 on their website. They're still patented, proprietary features. The PDF 2.0 spec (ISO-32000-2) does not include the proprietary things Adobe put into the 1.7 spec. Adding the issue, there are certain new graphics technologies PDF does not yet support...

The core part of PDF was indeed made open source in 2008, even published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 32000. Adobe's own flavor of PDF, such as PDF version 1.7, contains proprietary technologies from Adobe. They're not part of the ISO specification and not well...

The SVG format needs a LOT of very serious, major improvements before it could be used as any sort of "universal" vector graphics archive format. I've followed developments of the SVG format for over 20 years. In the early 2000's I was excited about it for what it might do to improve web...

Inkscape can import early CDR files, but with very mixed results from what I've seen with my own collection of files (dating back to 1993). I think it's a major failure on the part of Corel to not at least allow the application to open existing CDR files from any prior version. This seriously...

The current version of CorelDRAW (2022) and past 2 versions can save CDR files down no earlier than version X5 format. I don't remember how far back CorelDRAW 2019 could save back (that was one buggy version). CorelDRAW 2018 could save CDR files back as far as version 11. What I'm talking about...

It does take a certain amount of mental hopscotch to jump from one vector graphics application to another. The jump is more difficult if the user has worked exclusively in just one of those applications. There is a lot of big differences between Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW. I very much...

Every version of Adobe Illustrator I've used (from the current version going all the way back to the early 1990's) has been able to open AI files from any prior version format, even 35 year old files in version 1.0. The main headaches I deal with when receiving customer provided Illustrator...

One of our guys likes using Vinyl Express LXi. It is like a private label version of Flexi. What's odd is when you buy a license from Sign Warehouse you end up downloading it from SAi Inc, the same company that makes Flexi. It all depends on your specific production work-flow: what kinds of...

The Internet, social media and Google image searches have made the world a lot "smaller." It's harder for an illegal merchandizing operation to stay under the radar selling things like popular logos as vinyl graphics. The same goes for willful acts of trademark infringement. Generally, the only...