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False dilemma? It's very much a for real problem. Corel at some point a few years ago decided it was going to cut off file open/import support for files made in version 5 and earlier. This is very different from Adobe Illustrator having problems opening old archive files due to missing plug-ins...

The obvious planned obsolescence cycle is annoying. But I get it. The computer industry is a business. They're not going to survive by selling a customer one piece of computer hardware or a box of software and making those products last where the customer never has to re-buy any of it ever...

Microsoft needs to stop it with the forced updates for Windows 10. I can understand their reasoning for pushing these updates. Many computer users are very lazy and simply will not install updates on their own even if the update eliminates a very critical security hole or fixes a really...

Generally I just don't trust computers for storing any important data, regardless if the computer is connected to the Internet or not. I'm pretty anal retentive about backing up data I want to protect/keep on 2 or more external hard disc drives. If you don't have the data stored safely in 2 or...

The problem with Corel Font Manager is it can really slow down certain operations of CorelDRAW if the folders it watches have thousands or even tens of thousands of font files. It takes more time for the program to launch. CDR files with editable text objects take significantly longer to open...

Apple's OSX has already been a "boutique" OS for many years. The problem is, lately, the OS and computer product line is getting very murky at telling customers what industry niche it serves better than anyone else. And Apple under-cuts itself in the casual computing market with the iPad product...

The companies who make the highest end graphics boards still have to create drivers that would work under OSX. They're not doing that with any of these large, high wattage graphics boards. They're only making drivers for Windows and certain builds of Linux. I don't see that changing as long as...

Regarding art board size limits, I'm convinced if Adobe does offer a larger maximum art board size in an upcoming version of Adobe Illustrator the feature will come with a serious drawback: backward compatibility. The current 227" X 227" max art board size is supported back only so many previous...

We'll only get rid of customer provided files if they're basically junk files used to create something better. For example, a client provides a crude JPEG image of his logo. We spend time re-creating it in vector format. Once the new version is finalized the old junk file can be discarded. We...

We have a Spike setup at our shop. Our sales manager uses it to get "quick and dirty" measurements, particularly if it's something like a cabinet well out of reach. It tends to work best with something like a large iPad rather than a tiny phone screen. The person taking the photo still has to...

Are you going to be taking the photos of the finished signs already installed at the site? Or will the images be product displays? The latter might require some studio lighting for the best results. Even some photos of signs taken on site can require a camera flash (preferably an off camera...

What kinds of sign photos will you be taking? That will dictate a lot in the cost area. $200-$300 won't get you above smart phone image quality, other than gaining an optical zoom lens. The fake "digital" zoom in smart phones is absolutely lousy. There are various one-piece "point and shoot"...

Photographs are never going to be fully accurate as a source for laying out signs, vehicle graphics, etc. At best, when all the appropriate steps are taken shooting the photograph and adjusting in Photoshop, the image is only going to be close to survey measurements, not perfect. If you...

I see thin skinned people on both sides of this OFF TOPIC argument, with each side trying to ram-rod their view. This was originally a discussion about trying to maintain a sense of professionalism in sign design rather than just giving up -barfing whatever garbage assets the customers bring...

This reminds me why topics involving politics and religion are banned in a lot of moderated forums.

In October I'm going to reach my 25th anniversary at my workplace, this large-ish sign company in Lawton. Business has been pretty good the past couple of years. It got an additional boost when a couple rival sign guys in our community came to work for us after having a falling out with their...

I'm not sure what to think about the SVG format. It's great for web page graphics. But as a general file exchange format for graphics purposes it has some serious hang-ups. The SVG format was initially released by the W3C in September of 2001, nearly 17 years ago. It took roughly a decade for...

My point is the computer graphics industry really has no singular "industry standard" of software or hardware. The nearest thing we have to that is Adobe Photoshop (not Illustrator). There are dozens of niche industries that fall into the computer graphics field, each with its own...

That's still sounds a lot like, "real professionals use Adobe Illustrator." And it reminds me of the worn out stereotype, "real professionals use Apple computers." If someone is using computer graphics software/hardware not approved by the fashion police that worker is seen as not being a legit...

Whether a CorelDRAW user gets the pop-up message or not the application is still herky-jerky viewing the whole page/art board when the zoom gets out to around the 100' level. Keeping the focus on the original topic of this thread, this point is kind of important since at least some people seem...