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I'm thankful I've never had a computer hit with ransomware, but I do know others who have. It's just another reason to back up data regularly and save it in more than one place. Various "analog" problems can take your data too. Hard discs can fail without warning. A thief could break in your...

It almost looks like an auto-tracing attempt to re-create something set in Bookmania. Of course the results are pretty terrible. The swash N and swatch P characters are definitely in the extended character set of Bookmania.

The lettering looks a little customized, such as the lowercase "u". Bookmania has just about every imaginable swash in Bookman covered, even in the small caps character set. It really shows off the capabilities of Open Type. Bookmania can be synced via Adobe's Typekit service.

Adobe, Aldus, Apple and a few other companies let it happen 25 years ago. The sign industry has never been dominated by the Mac platform. The earliest vinyl cutters and computerized routing tables used software that ran on MS-DOS and then Windows. Complicating the issue further, the Mac...

There hasn't been any real mind-blowing new features in the past few version upgrades, but there has been a lot of subtle changes over the years that cumulatively would make an upgrade worthwhile if you're using an old version of CorelDRAW. CorelDRAW X6 is the first version to properly support...

Well, I'm still planning to check out the CorelDRAW webinar tomorrow morning. But it looks like CorelDRAW X8 is now already available (download version; the boxed version ships on April 5). From what I can tell there's not a whole lot of new must-have creative tools in this release. A bunch of...

I'll second the round-tripping approach via Photoshop. The only alternative is doing a bunch of welding and cutting work within Illustrator (and then re-doing a lot of the fill work). That's a lot of work to do just to maintain the vector artwork. It's easier to just paste the Illustrator...

It sounds more like you need to be using the Blend tool in CorelDRAW for this kind of thing. Create an oval shape. Then create a slightly S-shaped line for the lines in the rope pattern. Make two copies of that little s-shaped line segment. Create a blend between those two line segments. Attach...

We're using X6 at my workplace and I have X7 on my computer at home. Both have featured worthwhile improvements, some things subtle but still worthwhile. CorelDRAW was very late to the game with supporting all the features of OpenType. I have a lot of different "pro" OTF fonts whose extra...

I received an email from Corel about a webinar they're broadcasting Tuesday, March 15. The guy running the presentation is Gérard Métrailler, VP Products, Graphics & Productivity. The tagline in the email said: Join us for a FREE 1-hour webinar and discover unparalleled power and versatility...

A little add-on to my first post: my comment about the re-generated fonts working properly only applies in the basic character table sense. Some of the OpenType functions didn't carry over properly. I did a little additional research about this typeface. It turns out the OTF files are pretty...

The open source type family Cooper Hewitt has earned some praise from type critics. It's a clean and attractive alternative to some other sans serif typefaces that have been used to death. As good a design as it might be, I ran into an annoying technical problem with its font files this morning...

I create my actual neon tube path designs for things like open face channel letters and other stuff within CorelDRAW. Creating a good single-stroke center line is critical. I typically work in full size, so I'll assign a pen stroke to the center line the same width as my desired neon tube width...

A friend of mine asked me what typeface was used in the attached sample, a frame grab from the opening title of a b-movie from the late 1950's. The typeface looks familiar, but I just can't put my finger on what it is. The sample is too small and rough for the What The Font tool at MyFonts to do...

Modern Adobe Illustrator files should not have objects with "expanded" gradient fills like the example in the top post of this thread. Illustrator files made correctly will not have clipping masked groups of many hundreds of slivers of solid filled objects pretending to be a gradient fill...

I have a better idea, one that will give you precise results. Make two rectangles. Make one of them 8" wide and the other one 15" wide. Spread both along the height you need. Make a third rectangle the desired height you want and align the first two rectangles to the top and bottom of that 3rd...

This was a fresh install of X5 on a new Dell PC with Windows 8 loaded. The installer wouldn't even run. It would get blocked with a dialog box saying that version of CorelDRAW was incompatible and that a newer version (X6) was available that would work. So I had to buy an upgrade. We had older...

I did a quick search and found Soundbooth was in CS5, but that's where it ended. Audition returned in the CS5.5 suite and has been there ever since. Audition had been in the CS1 and CS2 suites. Soundbooth was in CS3, CS4 and CS5. Old CS software often doesn't work well with new operating...

Tim99, are you running Creative Suite 4 version applications? I ask that because of the mention of Soundbooth. Years ago I ran a CS4 Production Premium suite license on my work computer; it came with Soundbooth. When I upgraded my personal CS license to Master Collection CS5.5 that had Audition...

We have a Roland 54" printer. You can get the IP address of the printer directly from its command menu on the front of the printer. Scroll down to the System Info category, choose Network and it should list the IP address in there.