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The Pantone +336 series is a supplemental set of colors added to the Pantone+ swatches. A new set of Pantone spot color swatches will have the normal books for coated and uncoated spot colors. The 336 series is in a smaller, separate swatch book.

Yes, that's my question I posted in Adobe's Illustrator forum. I've seen similar questions in the same forum as well as the InDesign forum. No decent answers provided. The +336 colors thing is a real monkey wrench of sorts that can be thrown into the design machinery. Even if Illustrator can...

Early last year Pantone added a "+336" supplement to the Pantone+ spot color library. I haven't really thought much of it until a couple customers started specifying colors in that range. Since then it has created some serious headaches. I assumed Adobe Illustrator CC would already have the...

If the Illustrator CC file will not open in CS6 at all I suspect the person who created the .AI CC file saved it without PDF compatibility. Regarding Creative Cloud, we use enough different Adobe applications to justify the full subscription on two computers. I use Photoshop & Illustrator the...

Lack of forward compatibility has been standard in Adobe Illustrator from one version to the next for as long as I can remember. The same thing goes for CorelDRAW. You can't open files saved in a newer version. If the person who created the .AI file saved it with PDF compatibility then there's...

This one is really bugging me, because I actually worked with the typeface in the attached sample on a project several years ago. For the life of me I just can't remember what it is. I keep thinking the typeface is perhaps something from an old version of CorelDRAW or maybe Freehand. Ugh! Oranda...

I, too, thought at first it was some variant of Times or Times New Roman with a stroke applied to it. The characters in Times are just too different. Actually, Georgia Bold is the nearest match I have found to the typeface used on that Restroom sign. There's just some very slight differences...

Adobe isn't going to abandon the Mac platform unless the executives at Apple do something stupid enough to give Adobe a very good reason to do so. Make no mistake about it, Adobe absolutely is one of the companies that made owning a Mac a must for graphics work back when the desktop publishing...

I need some help with identifying a typeface that looks very familiar, but isn't really. It looks kind of like a cross between Times and Century Schoolbook but with more of a slab serif feel. At first I thought someone merely artificially thickened Times to make it look more bold, but that's not...

Regarding the maximum art board size differences between Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW, one of the reasons why there is such a big difference has to do with how each application handles math units. Adobe is obviously more geared to smaller things. You can enter object dimensions out to four...

I absolutely will not try to open (or import/place) a CorelDRAW .CDR file into Adobe Illustrator. Not after the hassle I went through last March. I used to have few problems at all opening CorelDRAW .CDR files directly into Illustrator. The .CDR files would open just fine if saved to version 10...

I've been using both CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator together in sign work for nearly 20 years. Both applications have their own strengths, weaknesses, bugs and handy unique features not found in their rival application. Being able to use the best features of both applications gives me more...

The funny thing is some of these people who take photos of their computer screen don't want to bother using the PrtScn key and clipboard after you tell them how to do it. They're just more "comfortable" taking the more cumbersome route, often delivering extremely stupid looking results. It's...

QR Code generation isn't nearly enough to some premium subscription with Corel. Besides, if I need a QR code I can generate one for free at a number of different web sites, such as http://qrcode.kaywa.com/. Font playground feature? Meh. IMHO Corel goofed up a lot more than they fixed with the...

CorelDRAW X6 does play a little better with Adobe Illustrator than it did in previous versions. But it isn't perfect. One example: gradient fills can still go wonky going from one application to another. It doesn't matter if it's Illustrator to Corel or Corel to Illustrator. Gotta check those...

Yep. I've seen that goof committed at least a few times in recent years. The proliferation of smart phones and the mediocre cameras bundled into them could be partly to blame. The main culprit: lack of fundamental computer knowledge. You wouldn't believe how many people simply don't know how to...

I can't seem to figure out what typeface was used in the attached JPEG sample. I'm sure it's a font since the letter "O" is identical both times it is repeated in the sample. It looks like a modification of Impact.

There are other news reports taking a more positive spin about Adobe's earnings. When Adobe was primarily selling boxed software their revenue would go up and down in fits and starts. With revenue shifting to subscriptions the earnings are lower, but may run at a more consistent level -if...

Unfortunately they're not backing down from the "cloud-only" policy. At least not yet anyway. Perpetual license owners of recent creative suite generations -such as CS5, CS5.5 and CS6 who are running those suites on fairly recently purchased computing hardware have all the leverage they need to...

Bump. Photoshop CC is now available. It has some new features regarding re-sizing images. The "preserve details" option for enlargement delivers some good results. The new image sharpening tools are also greatly improved. Too bad they couldn't have delivered those features in CS6.