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No. It's a de facto standard because Apple and Adobe essentially give their products to schools.Young heads-full-of-nothing emerge from these institutions knowing only these products and are not in possession of a clue as to the existence of other just as powerful and efficient products...

What are you doing that would require such accuracy? You're cutting vinyl, not doing neurosurgery or splitting atoms. There is one time you have to accommodate the perfectly acceptable cutting tolerances if you're contour cutting a full bleed. You always extend the image ~1/10" +- outside the...

Once you do it, you assume responsibility for it. As a sign maker I assume responsibility for how a message is displayed, not what it says. Most of the time it's harmless, but the future is unpredictable. There is a very real possibility of someone taking exception to what is said and, in this...

While this situation seemed to have turned out well, as a general rule a sign maker should never, as in ever, get trapped into writing copy. For any reason. For anyone. Ever.

There is no command to enlarge a bitmap using the proprietary engine. It's supposed to be built in. If the enlargement engine is indeed installed in X5 then all you should have to do is resample the bitmap with the new parameters. It's supposed to be in PhotoPaint and one would assume in Draw as...

There's lots of packages available to increase/decrease bitmap size without pixelization. For myself I use PhotoZoom Pro but I believe that this very same spline fit engine comes built-in in Corel X6. I went from X3 to X6 so I can't speak for X4 & X5. Whichever package you chose, they all use...

Twaddle. The value of a piece of real estate is not determined by the credentials, or lack thereof, of any real estate weenie that might be involved in the sale. The best that someone could do is try, that's try, for a higher commission based on whatever credentials they might be packing. Good...

I am. It is not the proper business of government to provide, or force to be provided, heath care for anyone. Far from it. Moreover, witness the spectacular collision at sea that is obamacare thus far. Then, after the debris of the failed marketing system is swept aside, observe the far less...

A licensing apparatus? Are you insane? Why would anyone want to labor under Yet Another regulatory agency unless forced to do so at gunpoint? Why should anyone be a member of any club before they can make a sign? Because their work might not meet your standards? Oh the humanity. Who gives a...

Why all the layers? Is it some sort of fetish or something? Do this... Lay the entire thing out on one layer. Car, text, border, everything. Then select everything you want to cut, the text, the border, etc. and do Arrange->Contour Cut->Make Contour Cut. You may or may not have to...

Close but not a match. It's 'No L' and in "Noel".

Change the plotter to GPGL from HPGL. Or vice versa, I can never remember which software uses which language. Whichever one it's set to, change it to the other.

No. Was there something about the picture that confused you? I try never to run vinyl right to the edge of the substrate. If at all possible, I make the print 1/4", or so, smaller than the substrate. This leaves plenty of room to cut off the corners for quick alignment. If I absolutely have...

Why do you people want to work harder than is necessary? Just cut the rectangle that represents the substrate right along with the image. Lop the corners off at something resembling 45 degrees, and drop the whole thing on the substrate. Where the corners are cut you have eight points to align...

The point, which seems to scoot right by you, is that they are being paid what they are worth. It's the exclusive province of the employer to determine what any particular employee is worth. It has absolutely nothing to do with what the employee thinks they're worth. The decision for the...

Probably because the market will only bear $X for a gallon of milk [not only set by market forces but to some extent by the US Department of Agriculture as well] and if it takes $X+$Y to produce that gallon you have a worthless reason for being in business. Your level of acumen as applied to...

I have no idea where they might have gone, nor do I care all that much. Time marches on. Only as it marches by do you know if it screwed you in passing or not. Regardless of what might have become of them, they should have absolutely no expectation of any potential employer paying them a living...

"we've shipped all the better paying jobs to China"? Really? All of them? And that "we've" includes whom exactly? "nothing wrong with paying people a wage they can support a family on." Dreadful grammar notwithstanding, whether or not someone can support a family has absolutely nothing to...

No one is entitled to a living wage. Better yet, no one is entitled to anything whatsoever. If one's goal is to make sufficient money to support a family of four or how many, one does not accept an entry level position and then demand that the employer increase wages in order to provide for...

Nonsense. There will never be enough jobs to go around, regardless of circumstances. The unemployment rate is never zero. Ever. All anyone can do is deal themselves the best hand they can. By definition, those with marketable skills can usually avail themselves of employment. Those without may...