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I just uploaded another video. No sound or commentary. Nothing terribly difficult. Keeping nice smooth curves requires proper placement and control of nodes. Anyone can draw curves but keeping everything smooth can be tricky. I think Illustrator's node controls are quite good once you undertand...

It is a fact that the person behind the keyboard/mouse is the difference. Just look at youtube videos and there are artists who can create a masterpiece with MS Paint. I believe the Corel Master at Signs101 is without a doubt Joe Diaz

Segoe Print.

All Adobe files? I did not think corel could open newer ones. Will x5 open cs 5 files? I always thought it was a few steps behind in import The big issue with opening AI files in corel is that some effects may get lost in the transition. Better to have both if you can afford it

Oh oh. Here we go again. #2 to Mac vs pc threads

Ugh, so glad I don't do embroidery work

Mass produced, no comparison

castellar

I like having the option of turning it on/off with ease. I scale graphics many times and don't want the stroke to change. If you watched over my shoulder or saw some of the work I received you would understand why There are times when a design has a certain stroke on multiple objects. I trace...

I think the twinkies were in there because of the myth that twinkies never go bad- they could survive an apocalypse. Not sure about why there was a big boy with the flaming burger

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fontbook-original-typeface/id448250130?mt=8 Cool ipad app and great price for this reference book. The original printed book was so expensive Had to laugh at the ratings. Someone thought they were getting all the fonts for $5.99 to use for graphic design...

See #16.

A footnote, some of the above are excusable for those that are not in the business but none of my examples were pointed towards the general public. All examples are from actual customers who are supposedly in the business as they gave me graphic/sign related company names. I provide both...

By having a pdf, I at least can have them look at the pdf and make sure the pdf and their word doc are the same that way I know I am converting the file correctly. With a word doc, you don't have that guarantee because word is so unreliable

Some of your suggestions are helpful, but I am trying to make this as simple as possible. For example, at least once a week I get people who tell me that they either don't know what a zip file is or how to deal with them. I have had some try to open zips with Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat...

What about neighbors? If you are connected, which most townhomes are you likely could bother them too. And venting outside, same possible issue.

That still does not insure the file opens up correctly. Word does not warn of missing fonts for instance. What I am trying to achieve is making sure that what the customer sees and what I see are the same thing. You get fewer issues with a pdf.

Thanks, then there is no excuse on their part. I am going to start asking, politely demanding ;)

I would prefer my customers send pdf rather than docx so if they can do this themselves that would ensure that we are both looking at the same layout/design (ugh. I hate to use the term design and word files in the same sentence)

Does anyone know if the most recent versions of MS Word can save/export pages as pdf? I have an old version of MSWord that won't open docx files. So when I open newer docx files I use Open Office. OO has the capability of exporting the page to pdf but I need to know if MSWord also has this...