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The squabble between Adobe and Dolby is pretty unfortunate. Thanks to the dispute the encoders for Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus formats were removed from Adobe's audio-video applications that could encode 5.1 or 7.1 surround audio. Now anyone creating a video project with surround sound...

How do you handle "forgot to tell you" mid project? Sometimes a stiff drink after hours helps. Or just go out back in the signs boneyard, look up to the sky and yell, "son of a *****!"

Maybe the company doubles as a kinky heavy metal S&M dungeon for swingers at night.

You need vector-based paths resident in the artwork in order to do both a print and cut operation. That artwork is something I probably would have created within Adobe Illustrator since all of the shapes and lettering have hard edges and the bowling figures are filled with straight gradients...

The sample does indeed look like it is hand-drawn. However, there are lots of OpenType fonts (script, text, display, etc) that have some or lots of alternate characters to make lettering look more custom and not like something generated from a computer font file.

Check the settings you have for your media types. Onyx has the ability to resize artwork as a way to compensate for the way some materials can literally shrink while run through printers that heat up the material to high temperatures. Window perf vinyl is particularly susceptible to shrinkage.

What exactly is the point you're trying to make? Or are you arguing with me just for the sake of arguing? I brought up an obvious long-standing issue that Flexi doesn't properly support OpenType. In response you're here brow-beating me with flurries of nit pick, line by line responses of every...

Buying and using a specific software title is not a form of charity. If that application's developers are not making the appropriate efforts to keep up with their competition those guys cannot expect me to continue being a customer. If there is a better tool out there I can use to do my job I am...

I might have sympathy for that situation if the developer was asked to incorporate a brand new, unfamiliar technology. OpenType is not brand new at all. A lot of mainstream applications are able to use the extended features in OTF files, whether it's a graphics application like CorelDRAW or even...

The RIP functions in Flexi were a later, optional add-on. Even today the RIP-equipped version of Flexi is the most expensive version. Going back to the 1990's the original functions of Flexi were originally geared for designing signs, directly controlling vinyl cutters and creating files for...

I know applications like Flexi are industry-specific niche applications. Still, being niche software is not a valid excuse in this case. Working with type is about as central to sign design as it gets. If anything, this kind of software should be as advanced as any graphics application when it...

Flexi's font tool is more than lacking. It treats advanced OpenType fonts as if they're 256 character fonts made over 25 years ago when we only had basic TrueType and Postscript Type 1 fonts. Flexi doesn't see all the advanced character sets contained in my OTF files. That's a big problem. One...

We have 3 licenses of Flexi at my workplace, but none are used for large format printing. We have licenses of Onyx Thrive for our 2 HP Latex printers and now a license of Rasterlink that came with our Mimaki flatbed printer. Our Flexi applications are mainly used for driving vinyl cutters or...

I haven't seen any serious color control issues with either of our HP Latex printers. Their output is very consistent. On the other hand I do have to wonder about claims that solvent printers don't have any problems printing color consistently, as compared to Latex printers. The Roland VersaCAMM...

Since you keep selling open source (especially with this comment) what specific open source sign making applications and open source graphics applications should the OP be using? It might not be your intention, but the comment above implies we're all foolish for using commercial software. I...

I'm not a hardcore "tree hugger" type, but I am really troubled about the amount of trash, hazardous waste and plastics in particular finding its way into our lakes and the oceans. I think climate change is a very serious issue, but this waste thing is much more dire since it has more immediate...

I mainly go to the big ISA show to see cutting edge new products. Vendors are more likely to bring out the big guns for the ISA show. I was hoping the Samsung booth would have at least one display there based on "The Wall" .84mm technology. Still there was some impressive LED boards on display...

The sales pitch on switching to open source applications is still there simply by saying the negative stuff about "closed source" software. It implies that going open source is the solution to the original poster's problem. Otherwise why even bring up the topic in the first place? Not everyone...

The joys of open source software, pertaining to graphic design: not having the tools needed to get a task completed adequately and having to accept all sorts of limitations. "Closed source proprietary software," normally called commercially developed software is an unavoidable fact of life for...

No sign company should operate as if it is a charity. Good clients understand that. If there isn't a mutually beneficial arrangement in doing a job, being able to make least some money off of the work, then we won't do it. If the client wants to take the project to a rival sign company that's...