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How about trying to practice what you preach?

I'm 99% certain the changes to CorelDRAW from a 2 year product cycle to annual and then later on to effectively a subscription-only arrangement was done as a cash grab. I think Corel has long seen itself as an equal to Adobe, despite what Adobe has done (and acquired) over the past 20 years...

Photoshop has its own internal strengths -things I believe it does much better than other rival applications. I like the user interface far more. The keyboard short cuts for many operations are vastly superior. Take for instance the Ctrl-Alt-Spacebar arrangement. I can zoom in/out and hand pan...

I bought Windows and iPad versions of Affinity Designer a couple or so months ago when they had their 50% off pandemic pricing special in effect. Affinity Designer has a fairly impressive set of features and capabilities for a lower-cost application. The .afdesign files work pretty seamlessly...

That contraption is really no different in fundamental principal than a digital printer. All it is doing is reproducing an existing image. It isn't creating anything new from scratch. And, yes, I would be able to tell quite easily that a machine "painted" the image rather than a human being.

There is a giant difference between painting an image by hand versus applying a cheezy oil paint filter to a photograph. I've seen professional landscape photographers do gallery shows where prints were output to types of canvas and either framed or just pulled and stapled over wood stretcher...

Those fatality rates are really apples to oranges comparisons since a bunch of variables are influencing the case fatality rates or overall fatality rates. It's very misleading to look at them in static terms. Also a bunch of these diagrams floating around on the Internet don't all show the same...

Corel seems to be changing and re-arranging existing features in the program just to make it look like they're doing more with each upgrade cycle. The changes they made to the Object Manager palette are no exception. The new default behavior of keeping desktop objects on layer and page is...

I remember some people tossing out charges of racism and xenophobia. But most of the criticism about Trump's so-called travel ban was that it was pointless. The virus was already here. Plus it was a selective ban only directed at Chinese nationals. That's actually what made a bunch of people...

Which is why I brought up my local county as an isolated example. Comanche County isn't a dense, high population center. It's not a tourist mecca (although the Wichita Mountains area has some interesting attractions). The most mobile group of people moving in and out of the area is the US Army...

New Zealand has some spectacular scenery, but it's not a huge country. With 104,483 square miles it ranks 75th in land mass. Japan has 40,000 more square miles of land. New Zealand is far more sparsely populated than Japan, but it has has a few reasonably large cities. Auckland has 1.6 million...

SARS-CoV-2 is prevalent in far more American places than just big cities with "blue" governments and black lives matter protesters. We don't have any protesting going on here in Comanche County, OK. Yet this county of only 120,000 people has 50% the number of total covid cases and deaths as New...

That ridiculous example does nothing to get away from the per capita facts of the matter. Cases per 100,000 people is a 100% relevant metric. And in that regard New Zealand is blowing us away. The US is the pathetic, puny moth flying into the turbines of a cargo jet.

Industry Ultra-Italic is close. But the apostrophe is different. I thought Forza Black Italic also looked similar. But it has the same problem.

First, Trump is throwing out plenty of stupid insults towards the Kiwis at the "terrible surge" of new cases in New Zealand. The criticism going on is not happening in a one way matter. I don't think anyone in the US has any place whatsoever to spout criticism at the Kiwis over their response to...

I'm not a big fan of the Text on Path effect in CorelDRAW. The effect often yields wacky looking character placement. The spacing is almost always off kilter and the same goes for rotation. Whenever I have to make one of those seal style logos with lettering wrapping around a circle I always...

Like I said in the original post, Helvetica Ultra Compressed is close, but not quite it. If you line up that typeface over the sample lettering you'll see various features in the lettering not lining up. I've looked at a bunch of other typefaces, including all through Adobe Fonts' collection...

I have CorelDRAW 2020 installed, but rarely use it. I kept CorelDRAW 2018 on my work desktop and X8 on my notebook at home. Versions CDR X8 and CDR 2018 are pretty stable. CorelDRAW 2020 is a slight improvement over the bug-ridden disaster that was version 2019. Some of the bugs are gone, but...

Swiss 911 is almost a carbon copy of Helvetica Ultra Compressed (very slight differences). The capital "B" doesn't line up with features of the "B' in the sample lettering, even when distorted to the proportions of the letter. Not even close.

I'm trying to figure out what typeface was used in the attached sample. At first glance it looks like Helvetica Ultra Compressed, but artificially squeezed a little more. But the "B" is different in the upper area and there's all sorts of other differences. Compacta looked slightly similar...