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I'm pretty disgusted about this topic since two friends of mine have died of heart attacks recently. One died a couple weeks ago and the other died just last night (after suffering a stroke a month earlier). Both friends were in their 50's. The health care system in the United States is an...

This rules list applies more to setting type for the printed page. There are exceptions to those rules in sign design. And then there are other rules in sign design that don't come up with design for the printed page. Someone doing sign design work should at least have some demonstrable level of...

That nudge feature, varying degrees of nudge based on different letter sizes in the same text string, is probably something I would never use. I'm not a big fan at all of faux large-cap/small-cap type treatments where the first letter is merely enlarged versus the other capital letters. The end...

We used to do solvent (or "eco-solvent) printing. Four years ago we bought a big HP latex printer and then two years ago set up a second one alongside it. When the second printer arrived we retired our old VersaCAMM. Both printers stay pretty busy. To add another variable, we recently...

Binge watch all the content distributed by Disney's studios that you can while you can still do so. Disney is launching their own "Disney+" streaming service around the end of the year or early next year. Once that happens all Disney-related content is moving over to that service. Some...

I'm still not seeing that "M" in the BrokerLogo.jpeg file in the ITC Edwardian Script Pro glyph table. I've scanned through all 600+ glyphs on that page and only see two capital "M" characters. I attached a screen shot of that part of the table. I also attached a comparison of the "M" glyphs in...

I used to have that attitude a long time ago. I still prefer to use a desktop PC for my office workstation during the day. If I'm going to do creative work at home I use either a notebook PC or an iPad Pro now. I haven't purchased a desktop PC to use at home in 20 years. My reasons for...

The "M" in the "WM" part of the BrokerLogo.jpeg image is definitely not in any version of ITC Edwardian Script. It's not one of the alternatives of the "pro" OpenType version. That particular "M" was indeed grabbed from a variant of Kunstler Script. The funny thing is there are multiple flavors...

It merely looks like someone took Futura Extra Bold and stretched it horizontally out of its normal proportions.

It's a heavy weight of Albertus. CorelDRAW has Bitstream's "Flareserif 821" knock off of it.

At least the tanning salons give customers protective goggles to wear in the tanning beds. Or at least they're supposed to do that. I never did get into using tanning beds or just even laying out in the sun as an adult. Got sunburned plenty as a kid (especially when we were stationed in Yuma...

It is never good to look directly at UV lamps. They can damage eyesight. The really bright curing lamps in these UV printers can potentially burn and scar the retina. Removing the covers that block out a lot of light is a bad idea. The print head and its covers run very close to the material. I...

When it comes to manually tracing "organic" objects, such as a tree, I prefer using the pen tool within Adobe Photoshop. The tool works faster and is more responsive than the similar tools in traditional vector drawing programs like Illustrator and CorelDRAW. Vector placement over pixels is...

What is your point with this anecdote? Are you trying to say I have zero right to complain about what Corel is doing to change its upgrade policy for CorelDRAW? That I should just pay whatever the hell they want and be quiet? The story you tell above sure sounds 100% like that. This example...

Any company charging that kind of money is not selling to any casual, individual users, unlike Corel. CorelDRAW is more of a mainstream software application. It isn't just for businesses. The vendors selling very high priced niche software are selling to companies who can write off that cost...

Does ambient temperature and relative humidity in the room where the printer is running affect color output? I wouldn't think temperature would make too much of a different considering how hot the printer heats up the inks and media running through it. In one respect I kind of like the heat...

I don't think it's going to cost $300 per year to be able to update a perpetual license of CorelDRAW to its newest version. But it's not completely clear if it will cost $198 per year or $99 per year just to be able to update that perpetual license. Other users here have suggested once you sign...

X5 is missing some features that are deal breakers for me. Lack of full OpenType support is a major shortcoming. For years I had been hopping over to Adobe Illustrator for OTF-centric type features to use in designs. Full OTF support in X6 was very long overdue. Transparency effects among other...

“Pretty soon” customers will only be able to buy CorelDRAW via online download. That will make the activation thing a moot point since there won’t be a way around it. IMHO it just needs to go to a user account based setup just like Adobe Creative Cloud. You just log in and manage activations...

We’ve had some issues printing onto window perf vinyl. The prints would shrink a little bit. That can throw off registration of a store front window wrap design. Onyx Thrive has a setting where you can compensate for shrinkage. I haven’t noticed any problems with color. Just have to use the...