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Having loaded up the latest version of Inkscape, I remembered the application didn't support spot colors. At least it didn't the last time I used it. How does one assign a custom spot color named "CutContour" to an outline stroke in Inkscape? I don't see any options in the Fill & Stroke dialog box.

We can scale artwork in the printing section. Unfortunately there are no scaling options in the cut server side. If Inkscape can support a 20' wide art board then we'll just have to use that. I haven't messed with Inkscape in several years, so I don't know its max art board size. The Onyx Cut...

Sometimes we'll use Onyx Thrive to do cut-only operations with a 48" wide plotter. The cut jobs require SVG files. Normally we generate those in Adobe Illustrator, and those SVG files work just fine. Now we have a cut job that is 20' long, which is past the max art board size limits of Adobe...

Yeah, here we go again. You, in your embroidery business, do not need any Adobe software or any other software that involves a subscription. Heard that loud and clear. Count yourself lucky that you're in the unique situation of ditching MS Windows and telling Adobe and anyone else wanting to...

Adobe, for better or worse, is wielding more and more of a monopoly hammer to pound on the heads of anyone in creative industries. I've been using Adobe software on my own for almost 30 years -even for a decent period of time when my workplace wasn't buying Adobe products. Today it is getting...

One problem with your example: you have the lettering sized according to the height of the "C" letter. Round letters like that commonly rise above the cap height line and dip below the baseline. Below are some screen shot images of glyphs in Font Lab Studio. One is a "E" from Adobe Garamond...

Okay, Johnny. Please explain in specifics just how you quickly size capital letters in a text object to a specific size without converting the text to outlines. Please explain in specifics just how you vertically align a text object to a container shape without converting the text to outlines...

The better way would be Adobe incorporating new features as I described above. Currently Illustrator users have to employ all sorts of time-wasting hacks to do basic things with editable text objects, such as vertically aligning a text object in a box or some other container. It's easy enough...

I have been bugging Adobe about this in their feature request forums for years, and also in their beta user forum. Adobe Illustrator, like PageMaker and so many other graphics applications, only sees type as objects that relate to a point-based layout grid on a printed sheet of paper. The actual...

2' X 12' is tiny cabinet for flex faces. They must be using something kind of hinky stretch and attach the faces to the frame. Meanwhile, I would even question the use of polycarbonate (aka Lexan) at that size. Is the face going to be pan-formed or flat? If the face is going to be flat then I...

My friend, I think what you're talking about is ETHICS. Personally, I'm a big fan of ethics. Being ethical is when, while no one is watching, you have the free and clear opportunity to do something that is fundamentally wrong and get away with it. But you still choose to do the right thing...

Whether one is being paid or not makes no difference. It's still unauthorized use of another firm's intellectual property. Disney has filed suit against businesses and even private individuals for painting Disney-owned characters on their property. Around 30 years ago I heard of one guy who...

Unless the artwork is larger than 227" X 227" I design it at full size and output it that way without any scaling. If the artwork has any raster-based elements in it then I choose a PPI setting that isn't going to bog down the computer, but still look good. 72ppi works pretty well for most large...

If you have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription the entire Agency FB family is available to sync via Adobe Fonts (aka Typekit).

It looks like a really bad auto trace attempt on the bold weight of Font Bureau's Agency Gothic.

Which version of Flexi are you using? It's not often that I have to open old CASmate SCV files from the 1990's, but they usually open alright. We're not running the latest version of Flexi though. The most common hiccup I encounter is missing fonts or slight kerning oddities with SCV files built...

I wouldn't want to get in the middle of that situation unless my company was the one who built the original pylon sign on which the offending tenant cabinets are installed. With that being said, I don't feel too sorry for the tenants who installed whatever they wanted to a shopping center sign...

Actually the only lettering on that sign that isn't squeezed or stretched it the "VitalPet" word mark running vertically on the left end of the face. All of the Arial (spit) lettering on that sign face is distorted to some degree. "Frisco" is Arial Black squeezed slightly. "Veterinary Center"...

Helvetica was created in the 1950's. Max Miedinger designed Helvetica (originally called New Haas Grotesk) with input from Eduard Hoffman for the Haas type foundry. The first release was in 1957. Linotype released Helvetica Neue in 1983. Earlier this year Helvetica Now was released by Monotype...

How many beers or shots of liquor did you drink before writing that disjointed gibberish? But, to humor your comment, the OP was complaining about a co-worker (a managing sales droid no less) who insists on type being warped out of its native proportions because somehow the fun house mirror...