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I’m not going to 3D print a home-made notebook computer. The practical choice appears to be buying something like a Dell XPS 17 with a far less power-hungry graphics card and maybe even a lower resolution, less color-accurate screen OR a more powerful notebook with a proper collection of ports...

I've been in the market for a new notebook computer for a couple years, just waiting til the right balance of power and portability was finally built into the product. The new Dell XPS 17 notebook looked like a winner. And it can be upgraded too; the RAM and other stuff isn't soldered into the...

Bumping the thread to add a couple comments (since I didn't a couple months earlier when this thread first got going). In regards to launching multiple instances of CorelDRAW to drag elements from one document to another, that is definitely not necessary with later versions of CorelDRAW. A...

Magento is the source typeface. It does look significantly altered though.

Phone numbers can be useful on temporary signs (yard signs, banners, etc) and can work on vehicle graphics or wraps. They're best on ads people will encounter while walking. I absolutely do not like phone numbers displayed on street signs or building signs, particularly when they're stuffed...

Your comment was pretty clear. And pretty absurd, IMHO. My response to you earlier did address your comment plus explain why we get art files not ready for prime time so frequently. We have this giant number of talent-lacking, self-taught, wannabe "graphic designers" out there pumping out all...

The "Massage Therapist" one reminded me of a "Celebrity Jeopardy" skit in SNL where the comedian playing Sean Connery picked the category "therapists," calling it "the rapists." Some of us here have formal training in illustration, graphic design, etc. I learned the very old school methods of...

How does someone manage to get a job doing sign design work without knowing what "kerning" means? That's pretty basic stuff there. I guess that just shows how low the standards bar for entry has fallen in the field of sign design (or graphic design in general). Do you have a pulse and working...

Um, it’s not that simple. First, I sure will never buy this popular American mindset that anyone can be a graphic designer or artist. That’s part of where this scourge of DIY design originates. They figure since computers are involved and you supposedly don’t have to do any manual drawing or...

Too many people simply roll with whatever default kerning is built into the typeface. They type out the text string and don't adjust anything (other than squeezing or stretching it, of course). I don't mind someone using a new, commercial typeface on a project, as long as it works with the...

I'll bet she probably didn't have a good grasp on the concept of negative space and its importance to a design layout. Lots of upper middle class and upper class business districts have enacted very restrictive sign ordinances. Some even ban street signs entirely, confining businesses only to...

One MAJOR GIGANTIC ISSUE is missing from that list of choices above: People stretching or squeezing the $#1T out of type to make it fit a given space. It's very common to see default f***-off Arial treated in this manner. It's a hallmark of gutter trash sign design. Arial is at the top of the...

Yeah the "R" in Letraset Revue does extend a good bit below the baseline.

It's fairly easy to understand why Apple will transition to their own ARM-based CPUs. Multiple factors are involved. I think the chief factor is Intel has been moving way too slow and stubbornly conservative with its own CPU development. The company acts almost like a cartel of sorts...

The spike in new cases cannot be dismissed as evidence of just more testing, even though some people are doing just that for political reasons. Here in Oklahoma the rate of COVID-19 hospitalizations is increasing. The percentages of positive versus negative tests are up. The Tulsa metro has seen...

They sure stretched the crud out of that.

I'm pretty sure that's a custom logo-style thing. Not a font. OTOH, it would be pretty easy to re-create.

Normally the CASmate SCF fonts are volumes containing many fonts. But CASmate's old font converter tool could take one or more TrueType fonts and convert them into a custom SCF volume. I can't remember if the conversion tool worked on Postscript Type 1 fonts. Back when we first switched from...

Astute Graphics' plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator have been updated for 24.2 compatibility. However, they recommend customers follow a procedure on this page to get the best results. It involves uninstalling the existing plug-ins, doing a reset of settings in Astute Manager and then re-installing...

We're not making masks mandatory...for now. That could change. The daily number of new confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases here in Oklahoma has really jumped over the past week, including a new record high number of new cases reported yesterday. We could end up going back to our previous policy of not...