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I've run into a hassle with CorelDRAW X8 today. It won't see any of the Typekit fonts I have synced to my PC via Adobe Creative Cloud. The other applications see the Typekit fonts just fine, even a copy of CorelDRAW X6 still installed on the same PC. I've tried messing around with the filtering...

I wouldn't complain about if it only involved one click. If you do not click the "update text" button the pop-up will continually re-appear over and over again while you are editing legacy text in an older CorelDRAW file. The pop-up will keep butting in until you click "update text" or close the...

Is there any way to get rid of that really annoying "Update Text" pop-up bar when you open an older CorelDRAW file with text not generated by the very latest CorelDRAW text engine? That pop-up is even more annoying than the Windows 10 notification thing that constantly tries to sell you MS...

That tutorial is okay, but it doesn't explain the most important part of the effect that has to be drawn: the center line running through the middle of the letter stroke. That's where CorelDRAW's blend tool can come in very handy. For instance on a cap letter "I" you would use the node tool to...

Our company will give a long time repeat customer a good amount of leeway in drawing up logos, making numerous design changes, etc. It's part of maintaining a good relationship with the customer. But for new people (who are often shopping around for the cheapest price), we don't cut them many...

No software exists that can make a properly chiseled "prismatic" bevel effect. It doesn't matter if the software is vector-based or raster-based. They all fail at the points where letter strokes join, such as the stem and cross bar on a letter "T". The filters all deliver a dopey bowled out...

I'm running the latest version of X8. That patch has not addressed any of the performance issues I described. There are big differences from one Windows-based PC to the next. However the Dell XPS desktop system I'm using is a pretty common system, and mine is pretty well configured. I still have...

I haven't had the same problems with X7. Although I really dislike some of X7's behavior when saving .CDR files down to earlier versions. For one thing it can do unpredictable things to text objects that need to remain editable. Version X8 isn't as great an upgrade as I was hoping it would be...

Sorry for the small sample image attached. I've been pouring through different font libraries and can't seem to match the one matching the "heritage" letters in the sample image. Any help is appreciated. I know I've seen the typeface before.

Illustrator's default is to not apply lossy compression to placed images since it is destructive to the quality of the image. Placing a JPEG image (which was already compressed when it was first encoded as a JPEG file) and re-compressing it when creating a PDF basically does the same thing as...

The performance of CorelDRAW X8 can be affected greatly by the amount of fonts being filtered or not by Corel's new font manager. I have a pretty big font collection. If I let Corel Font Manager X8 see the entire master folder and let CorelDRAW X8 see fonts of all types, installed and not...

I'd be perfectly happy with this rationale if America's hospitals, clinics, drug companies, biotech companies, etc. didn't get any taxpayer money at all. Not one cent. If those businesses really want to claim to be "free market" they should be forced to survive only on what they can get patients...

You just have to design in scale. I think there is a math issue relating to the differences in max art board size between CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator (1800" X 1800" max for Corel; 227" X 227" for Illustrator). Illustrator can numerically size and position objects to 4 decimals points whereas...

If it was just poor brown people mooching off the system our health care costs wouldn't be nearly so high. The main group of people driving up costs is older Americans getting older and dying long, drawn out and very expensive deaths. Poor brown people are an easy target. Good luck to a...

Wanna try refuting any of those CDC numbers with some reliable sources, rather than just Internet heresay? The Centers of Disease Control is a non-partisan entity. And I've seen those same cause of death numbers backed up by other sources. Suicide is a particular stand-out. Us American Idiots...

Regardless of anyone's political bias, the United States' current health care system is operating under a mathematically unsustainable model. The math is getting worse year after year. That is an absolute undeniable fact. The United States currently spends 17.5% of its GDP on health care. Over...

I continue to be amazed at all the working class people who defend the United States' "free market" health care system. There's really nothing "free market" about it. We have lots of localized monopolies with no standards or controls on how treatment is priced. Medical patients don't have the...

Duplicate objects (one object sitting on top of another identical object) can be caused a few different things. I see it a lot in customer provided artwork generated in Adobe Illustrator. The Outline Pen effect is the biggest culprit. I always "finalize" my artwork. If there are any outline...

There is good and bad with X8. I like the improved transparency effects, such as varying levels of transparency on gradient fills. That makes it slightly easier to deal with Adobe Illustrator generated artwork. PDF and SVG import functions have been improved (but are still not 100% perfect)...

I had no difficulty installing any of the Adobe CC 2017 applications, including Illustrator, on my slightly aging Windows PC. I'm running the latest Win 10 Pro build. However, I've been dealing with an annoying bug in Illustrator. A dialog box constantly pops up with the message: "The operation...