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IMHO, for serious sign work the design and production has to be done under a business model different from that of a food truck. Businesses won't take an operation working out of a mobile trailer seriously. They won't expect to get anything more than quick yet generic stuff from an operation...

If there are active fonts in the PDF and it's not password protected (meaning I can place it in Adobe Illustrator) I always can convert the type to outlines. That's one of the easier parts of the process. There are a couple items in the Flatten Transparency dialog box that have to be checked...

Intermodal containers often have large word marks on them (Maersk, China Shipping, K-Line, etc). How are those brands emblazoned onto those ribbed containers? Are they painted (sprayed through stencils)? Are they applied in vinyl? I haven't looked at one close enough to tell if the lettering is...

The flatten transparency trick with PDFs in Adobe Illustrator is handy, but I use that feature most often with PDFs from major companies. Most of the time it's pretty easy to extract useful artwork from PDF files. Major brands tend to strip away lots of superfluous details, effects, etc and go...

First of all, why are you writing the term "FONT" in all caps? Second, with me being an older Gen-X type, I think of the term "font" applying to a specific size and weight of a typeface from the old metal press days -such as 24 point Helvetica Black. That's a font. Of course with computers we're...

There really shouldn't be a standard, flat price for a wall wrap. The cost of materials is one thing. But the amount of design time can vary greatly from one project to the next. Our shop can produce wall wraps or murals that are digital printed. And we have a couple of guys who hand paint...

I currently use Corel's Font Manager application (formerly Bitstream Font Navigator). Some of its functions are built into later versions of CorelDRAW. The thing I like about it is I can access a pretty big collection of fonts without having to install them. That makes it possible to just...

Graphics and iconography are a pretty big deal in the military. And the stuff does figure in with war time functions as well as keeping the peace. I learned that growing up in the military on a series of Marine Corps and Navy bases. The stuff is an intregal element of communicating and...

I like the term "bilabial fricative," made famous by George Carlin in his bit, "Class Clown." Artificial phart noise made using your mouth, different from using the hand in the arm pit.

Soccer Taco has a pretty hilarious definition.

There is nothing wrong with them having that policy (other than perhaps turning people loose in MS Office if they don't know how to use it). Only a small percentage of the population has any natural understanding of graphics, page layout, etc and an even smaller percentage has any real training...

Unfortunately there is no one single place where authentic vector-based files of military emblems, crests, etc from the four branches of the military and Coast Guard are all collected. There is no uniform set of standards for any of this stuff. It's basically a scatter-shot mess. IMHO the...

Rather than trying to trace from photographs, the far better approach is to search online for PDF-based documents. User manuals, brochures, etc. Very often you can PDFs containing authentic vector-based logos. Sometimes those PDFs will be password protected. But sometimes they're not protected...

This same thread was posted before? That makes me wonder if the original poster is some kind of bot.

They only used Trajan because the Tahoma font failed to load.

I thought sign people were supposed to use Arial for everything. Arial, aka "block." Also be sure to squeeze and stretch the hell out of it to fit any space.

I think Corel was doing better when they had CorelDRAW on a 2 year cycle between full version releases. That cycle provided more time for the development team to build up enough improvements to make full version upgrades somewhat substantial (not to mention have more time to fix bugs). The once...

That may come at the cost of having to sign up for the $16.50 per month subscription, $198 per year. That is if Corel's head honchos stick to their guns and kill the ability of perpetual license owners to upgrade. Only those who bought the buggy 2019 release and paid $99 extra for "upgrade...

Optima was also used on the 9/11 Memorial wall in Lower Manhattan. Actually it was the newer Optima Nova family, which contains far more weights, including ones with true small capitals character sets. The type family is freaking expensive to buy though, around $1400 for the full 60 font family...

I seem to recall Apple getting into a lot of bad publicity hot water recently regarding them deliberately slowing down older generation devices. It's a real thing. Apple's excuse: they've been doing it to protect the devices. An older, aging battery apparently has a greater risk of catching fire...