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What, specifically, was the reason to never ever visit Las Vegas (aka "Lost Wages") ever again? I'm not much of a gambler myself and tend to stay away from that kind of stuff, regardless of its presence in Las Vegas or the smorgasbord of tribe-run casinos here in Oklahoma. Nevertheless there...

The Arizona printer was pretty cool. I liked some of the high resolution LED displays. Daktronics had a full 1080p 1.9mm pitch unit hanging over their exhibit. I was hoping Samsung would have a bigger booth display and have some units out their based on their Onyx cinema screen tech and the...

First of all the example you bring up is from the distant past. It doesn't really apply to what is happening now. Next, the whole "the losers have no drive; set forth and conquer" pitch seems to imply everyone has the same chance at success regardless of background. We all know that's a bunch of...

If you're born poor you're probably going to grow up to be poor too. Americans like to think this country is completely above that. And it might have been decades and centuries in the past. The mechanisms of our society today are devolving it into an old-world caste system. All we need left is...

As usual in discussions on topics like this certain misconceptions get dragged out and repeated. That wouldn't happen without a little thought and maybe a tad bit of research. Regarding the tangent about life expectancy in the United States, here's a little news flash: life expectancy in the...

I think income inequality is a serious and worsening problem. But I think it's a symptom of much worse, structural issues in our economy/society that are unsustainable over the long term. The high costs of health care, higher education, housing and government debt all add up to something that...

What does "GOARD" mean? Is it a monster in a super hero movie? One of Godzilla's offspring? They could file down the top of the "O" and use a little touch up paint. That might fix it.:D Even though it's spelled correctly, I still can't stand how the lettering looks on that ribbon. Also, what's...

That lettering is just a modified version of Font Bureau's Agency typeface. They took the Bold Condensed weight and modified the shapes a little. If you don't already have FB Agency, but subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud you can sync FB Agency from Adobe Fonts.

There is no catch to those introductory discounts at MyFonts. They're legal and usually directed by the type foundry releasing the new type family in order to juice its popularity. Other sites like FontShop and Fonts.com do the same thing with many new foundry releases. Sometimes if the discount...

Many specialty materials, such as fabrics or flex face canvas for canopies or awnings, often have their own specific swatch books. It's no different than swatch books for brands of different kinds of colored roll vinyl to run through a vinyl cutter/plotter. At best, Pantone swatch books are...

I watch the MyFonts web site pretty closely along with a couple others. MyFonts appears to have more introductory deals on new type releases than other competing sites. It's pretty nice to snag a new, high quality OpenType family loaded with lots of OTF features at a 80% or 90% discount. It's no...

We buy a lot of fonts not bundled in graphics software. I usually buy OpenType fonts from MyFonts. I can't recall ever having a problem embedding font data with any of those purchased fonts into a PDF. Heck, most of the fonts I sync from Adobe Fonts/Typekit will embed into PDFs.

Regarding DRM features with fonts, very few of the commercial fonts I own or my workplace owns will prevent font embedding in PDFs. Nevertheless, the only fonts I keep live in any PDFs I create are the typefaces used for sign descriptions, material specifications and other info. Everything in...

I've long known about the font conversion trick with PDFs, but it does require a fairly current version of Adobe Illustrator for the trick to work. And the application generating the PDF must embed the fonts (or subsets of them) as well. On the bright side most applications do embed font data by...

I work in scale only when I have no other choice. 99% of the time I am making my artwork at full size. CorelDRAW and Flexi both provide a lot more breathing room than Illustrator. The max art board size in Illustrator is currently 227" X 227". Back before Adobe re-built Illustrator on PDF...

Whether or not to use Photoshop in the work process really depends on the intended use of the artwork and possible re-use of that artwork in other methods of display. You must think about how the artwork will be used when deciding on the final form that artwork will take, be it a pixel-based...

I think the problem is current computer graphics software just doesn't know how to render a bevel effect over letter stroke corners and the joins of letter strokes. This goes for both 2D vector software like CorelDRAW and Illustrator as well as 3D modeling software. A number of abstract...

I really don't like Photoshop's inner bevel effect when the bevel is put to the maximum all the way to the center of the letter stroke. It bowls out at any corner or join of a letter. It even does this on a letter style where all the line segments are straight (such as ITC Machine for example)...

What are the disadvantages of using RasterLink Pro to run a Mimaki flatbed printer versus using Onyx to do the same thing? I'm only asking because we have two HP Latex printers driven by Onyx Thrive. We recently installed a Mimaki flatbed printer and that (obviously) is driven by RasterLink Pro...

Our company has standard per hour fees for design time. We also charge design deposit fees for more complicated projects like vehicle wraps, window wraps, wall murals, etc. We are willing to provide more lee-way to customers who have an established relationship with us. When we do artwork...