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One more suggestion I don't think anyone's made yet, maybe because it's too obvious. You could take the banners to virtually any sign company and ask them to hem and grommet them, as is normally done with most prints on banner material. With the hem and grommets, you could simply hang them on...

Illustrator doesn't have built-in support for working in scale, as we've already established, but there's an easy workaround that also keeps your files nicely organized. You simply draw your drawing at 100% scale, then place it (linked, not embedded) in a new 11"x14" document and rescale it to...

True, Illustrator doesn't have built-in support for working at scale, but I don't find it very difficult to type "/25" in the Transform window and press Enter to turn my 1:1 drawing into a 1:25 drawing.

This topic comes up a lot. Work in 1:10 scale in Illustrator, because it's dead simple to just move the decimal over in your head, and then scale to 1000% in your RIP.

I don't know why you would want to export multiple sizes of PNG files for a fire truck wrap, but you do you. That screenshot looks very similar to Illustrator's Asset Export window, though. It has most of the same functions.

EPS might be fine for your setup, but it is a legacy format. PDF is the de facto standard format for printing. When you export to PDF, you get a lot more control over your final production file than you do with EPS. This includes: Add trim marks Add bleed Convert colours to CMYK (or RGB)...

You're right, I haven't used Affinity, and I'm sure it has some advantages over Illustrator. However, going back to your original example of printed panels on a fire truck, I don't see how slices in Affinity could have any significant advantage over artboards in Illustrator. If all your...

What kind of dumb-ass lawyer thinks this is a good idea? One of the core parts of trademark law is that you generally need to be using someone else's trademark in the same industry as them for it to be considered infringement.

Two possibilities here: A) Your printer's colour output changes slightly from the right to left sides. This is very common and is why VersaWorks has a setting that rotates every 2nd panel 180 degrees. Looks for Place Alternated in the Clip & Tile tab. This issue isn't limited to Roland printers...

It's possible that the behaviour of the Attributes panel in Illustrator has changed. But are you selecting the Clipping Path, or the Clip Group? A Clip Group can sometimes have overprint options available that you can change, but the way that works is it just applies the settings to any objects...

bannertime is correct. Artboards in Illustrator are basically the equivalent here. You can draw a bunch of artboards over different parts of your artwork, and then export to whatever format you like, and each artboard will become a separate page (PDF) or a separate file (JPEG, TIFF, SVG, PNG...

Designing wood textures is massive PITA, no matter what source material you have to work with. Here are some of the issues: You have to figure out the right scale to print them at in order to look realistic. Making your own tileable seamless wood grain textures is hard, because it takes a lot...

As I said, the clipping mask is still there when you save with Preserve Illustrator Editing. It's there in the body of the PDF document, but it's not there in the hidden Illustrator data in the PDF file. Illustrator reads the hidden data and ignores the actual PDF data. All other apps will see...

That's not relevant if the issue we're discussing is why the RIP is misinterpreting the PDF file. The "Preserve Illustrator Editing" option basically saves your working Illustrator file in a hidden "comments" section of the PDF file. The circle with the clipping mask is still there in the...

The design software is not the culprit, as I'm using the latest version of Adobe Illustrator. Clipping masks are not the issue here – when PDF files are generated they get filled with all sorts of extra clipping masks for various reasons. I drew a circle in Illustrator and applied a gradient to...

A lot of good arguments here, but sometimes we forget how complicated things really are. Virtually every argument made in this thread can be knocked down in one way or another. For instance, not all countries have the same rules on copyrights, and not everyone contributing to this thread is...

OK so it looks like the issue is related to overprint, because if I add an overprint to the circle, presto! I get a green/black gradient on Overprint Preview. The thing is, this PDF definitely does NOT have any overprints in it. Overprint Preview in Illustrator shows the yellow/orange gradient...

Roland XC-540 on VersaWorks 5.5.1 So when I load the attached PDF file, the preview and the printed result both show the completely wrong colour on a gradient in the design. How the **** does this happen? It's not any of the usual suspects, as I have no transparencies, overprints, or spot...

That's just Bitstream's name for their version of Frutiger.

I think we can all agree that (A) is the best practice, obviously. But even if there was never a signed agreement to transfer the copyright, (B) is basically nonsense as it's never going to happen. After the logo is done and paid for, a sign company or designer isn't going to go after the client...