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Normally any vector-based artwork in an Adobe Illustrator file would remain as vector-based artwork in export to EPS format. Usually you'll get elements in raster/pixel form if those elements were placed into Illustrator like that (such as a photograph). But you can rasterize vector-based...

Here's another typeface that looks very familiar, but I can't quite place what it is. What the Font at MyFonts site claims it's the Charm typeface, but that's wrong. Thanks in advance for any help.

I think the gradients on line strokes feature was introduced in version CS6. It has been almost 7 years since that release. But the feature still seems kind of new to me. Regarding brushes, most of those effects can be expanded into editable paths (which can be safely exported).

Larger companies tend to stick with Adobe's file formats for traditional graphics purposes. Smaller businesses tend to fall victim to people who insist on using Photoshop for designing logos and other brand assets. That's where a bunch of the JPEGs tend to originate. SVG could be a more viable...

Horrible kerning on the word "W ay".

We do a lot of work for the US Army and Air Force. The military in general is really bad about sending PPT files. Somebody needs a sign made out of a unit crest; they almost always provide a PPT file with a BMP image embedded for the initial try. We tell them there's going to be a service charge...

You're spinning that in a manner suggesting there is no dominant graphics standard for anything. That's wrong. Adobe's software dominates in all of the mass communication forms of advertising. Print, Internet, Video and even quite a bit of the sign design space too. They're almost enough of a...

Which software would that be? Which file format? Please name an alternative to Adobe Illustrator that isn't going to break a bunch of the graphics effects generated in Adobe Illustrator. Major companies, advertising agencies, design houses, etc don't really care if some sign shop can't handle...

Adobe's software is the standard for the advertising industry. Most professional branding work, graphic design work and page layout work is all done in Adobe's applications. Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop are very commonly used. Most of the production-ready artwork I...

You're using the term "universal" in a very subjective manner. Universal to what? For the vast majority of people out there a PDF only needs to be able to open and print accurately from Adobe Reader to be work-able. Professional level RIPs have compatibility built into them to understand the...

Design work is not an assembly line process like turning bolts on a car manufacturing line. It's not a sport either. Race through a design and chances are good it will look like eye-balled, thrown-together crap. Most sign projects are different. We produce our design work and bids acceptably...

The pylon signs and high rise signs are necessary next to freeways, especially the ones in Texas, because absolutely no one is going to be able to read some dinky tombstone-sized thing by the curb from several hundred feet away while driving 70mph. A bunch of these freeways have ROW widths of...

PDF is no better than AI or EPS as an exchange format for Adobe Illustrator files being sent into CorelDRAW. Actually the PDF format is much worse in some regards. If a PDF is generated without Adobe Illustrator editing capability reserved (which is the case about 99% of the time I get PDF...

Any community should have a sign code, but one that is sensible and not so restrictive that it makes it hardly worth bothering to put up any signs at all. We have a sign code in my town. It has limits on the numbers of signs a business can install on its site as well as the usual limits on...

Not directly. But hack-level sign designers sure aren't helping the situation either. Badly designed signs and poorly maintained signs both contribute to BLIGHT. Blight gets a lot of people in a community very angry and ashamed for their town's appearance. When they get mad enough they draft...

That looks like a rough, auto-traced version of this mystery source typeface.

In the case of Sears, its current owners (some idiots running a hedge fund) played all kinds of games with store personnel -literally driving away sales people who built careers there. Then they did as little as possible maintaining the stores. A couple or so years before the Sears in my town...

What is the specific error message that is coming up when you try to import the file? Depending on the nature of the artwork there may be no other choice than to involve the client or whoever created the artwork. Some fixes are pretty simple, such as getting the design to save a copy of the...

Roper Serif is close, but the points on the sides of the letters (like the letter A) are not in the right places.

A great deal of sign people out there can't even manage to create a clean design that satisfies the basics of competent graphic design. The work of past graphic design industry innovators like Paul Rand and Paula Scher are in an entirely different stratosphere. I find little offensive at all...