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  1. Monument designing fonts

    It's too bad we don't have something like the Star Trek universal translator device in real life. Trajan Pro and Trajan Sans Pro look good sand-blasted into marble.
  2. HELP WITH SIGN SOFTWARE

    In terms of screen navigation (zooming in/out and hand panning the view) Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign are FAR more intuitive than CorelDRAW. Combinations of the Ctrl, Alt and Spacebar keys toggle up zoom-in/out and hand pan functions regardless of the tool you're using at the time...
  3. Onyx VS Flexi

    We use Onyx Thrive as the RIP for our two HP Latex printers and also use it to contour cut on a large Graphtec plotter. Our new Mimaki flatbed printer came with RasterLink Pro. We have licenses of Flexi, but none have the add-on RIP.
  4. HELP WITH SIGN SOFTWARE

    That is laughably way way wrong. I've been with my sign company since 1993. Back then the overwhelming majority of sign companies used PCs running MS-DOS & Windows as well as various brands of industry specific sign making software. CorelDRAW was a common denominator between all these shops...
  5. HELP WITH SIGN SOFTWARE

    You have a notebook that is running XP? That's interesting. My personal notebook is a system that's still running decent; it originally came with Win 7 Ultimate but I updated it to Win 10 Pro. But after 8.5 years it's pretty much overdue for a replacement given the performance demands of certain...
  6. HELP WITH SIGN SOFTWARE

    Specifically what am I assuming? I don't agree with your claim CorelDRAW is "100X better than Adobe" and "Industry Standard."
  7. HELP WITH SIGN SOFTWARE

    I keenly remember using CASmate. It was always fun to get an update via a stack of floppies in the mail! Back in the 1990's I first used it running it under MS-DOS, then Windows 3.1 and Win95. Around 1999 I got a new PC with Win98 SE and CASmate wouldn't run on it. It would crash not long after...
  8. Stay CS6? Or Upgrade to CC? What am I gaining?

    Who cares? If I'm already designing the sign in CorelDRAW or Illustrator there's no reason to get Blender involved in the production process. Now, if it's a big enough project and the customer wants to see a 3D rendering of a proposed sign incorporated into an image of the business site then...
  9. Osama Bin Lauden

    I would never put printed vinyl onto the grips of any of my pistols. I mean, I try to try keep my hands clean, but dirt and hand sweat are going to muck up any image applied to pistol grips after only so many trips to the range. That is unless the gun is only going to be displayed in a case.
  10. Stay CS6? Or Upgrade to CC? What am I gaining?

    You do realize I can make 2D shapes to send to a routing table from within the application I was originally using to design the sign in the first place, yes? Usually that's going to be CorelDRAW and/or Adobe Illustrator. Or I can make the shapes within EnRoute itself. Why do I need to launch a...
  11. Stay CS6? Or Upgrade to CC? What am I gaining?

    I would expect similar features in two rival vector drawing programs to be coded differently, given they come from two different companies and two different development teams. It's the developer's job to create import/export filters that can translate between their own applications and those of...
  12. Stay CS6? Or Upgrade to CC? What am I gaining?

    The least thing a rival vendor can do is provide import accuracy between features that are duplicated between the two applications. And if there are glaring features missing then the vendor needs to update his product to keep up. If there are too many critical features missing compared to, for...
  13. Stay CS6? Or Upgrade to CC? What am I gaining?

    Most graphics applications have a slew of import and export filters. If a vendor comes along claiming he has a worthy replacement for Adobe Illustrator and wants to attract Illustrator users then the import and export filters of his "Illustrator-killer" must be on point. In order to sell to...
  14. Stay CS6? Or Upgrade to CC? What am I gaining?

    That's exactly what I expect. If some company comes along trying to sell me on abandoning the creative software I have been using for decades accurate file compatibility is an extremely important factor on making or breaking that deal. I have many thousands of files made over the past nearly 3...
  15. Setting up Illustrator

    One of the first things I do when updating Illustrator or installing it on a new computer is disabling the very annoying Double-Click to Isolate function. It's an old Flash-like behavior. But it gets in the way of the object alignment functions. If you're aligning objects to a key object you...
  16. Stay CS6? Or Upgrade to CC? What am I gaining?

    I can just as easily say being anti-Adobe or anti-paying for subscriptions or perpetual licenses for commercial software is a belief system as well. There is plenty of it on display in many forums and any Adobe-related news article with a comments section following it. Regarding "pipeline...
  17. Stay CS6? Or Upgrade to CC? What am I gaining?

    It's mostly about the user's own specific work flow and the files, assets, etc he or she has to handle in that work flow. That's going to determine if one really has to do something like subscribe to Adobe CC, buy a Mac or even switch from MacOS to Windows. For instance, the vast majority of...
  18. Here We Go Again, loop de loop

    I'm still trying to make sense of the acquisition. What exactly does this bring to Creative Cloud? I don't really care about buying a high priced Oculus headset. What I think would be good is Adobe actually having a real stand-along 3D modeling/animation app that is a whole lot more than the...
  19. Stay CS6? Or Upgrade to CC? What am I gaining?

    That's quite an over-generalized statement. By the way, there was no "CS7". You're assuming Adobe makes nothing but buggy software and implying the open source stuff doesn't have any bugs. Much of the advertising industry trades logos, assets, etc in Adobe-generated form. It's a lot easier to...
  20. Stay CS6? Or Upgrade to CC? What am I gaining?

    There has been a lot of incremental improvements and feature additions/enhancements to Illustrator since CS6. Enough features and effects have been added that I have to be careful about saving down to earlier versions. Newer effects like free-form gradients will break when saving down to...
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