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File exchange is of little interest to me but there is one thing that would cause me to upgrade from X3 to X5 immediately. In X3 when using the Drop Shadow tool, most often on larger images and/or when manipulating a drop shadow, the drop shadow suddenly displays as the drop shadow's bounding...

Singular possessive as in 'Family's'. With this sort of thing you're addressing an individual and its family not a collective and their families.

That would depend, wouldn't it. If it were more important to you that the this was created by some favorite being of yours rather than what it looked like. Or some combination of those factors. There are legions of people to whom provenance is more important than what the thing is. Hence the...

Your deliciously primitive, convoluted, and tortured reasoning never ceases to entertain. In the quote you seem to find so telling I used the word 'allowed' which has nothing whatsoever to do with the word 'qualified'. The reason I feel as I do is that when a sign maker produces logos...

I should think that the original question might well be expanded to "What, exactly, makes anyone qualified to design anything?" 'Anything' being taken to mean some sort of graphic arts product. There, that plays better. The 'sign people' can be replaced with any sub-set of humanity, be it...

I'm not working around anything except perhaps egregious orthodoxy. I never said it was color management, I said it was the way I did it which has served my needs for lo these many years. But Ok sport, go ahead and explain in simple declarative sentences exactly what benefits would accrue to...

Did it ever impinge on your smooth reptilian cortex that I might feel the way I do about color management, at least your rather stilted interpretation of it, because I do understand it, not because I do not? Color management in my shop is getting what I want out of my equipment. My lack of...

I've actually had experience with this and I can state with some authority that there is no vinyl that will perform satisfactorily. The only real options are heat press thermal transfer or printing direct to the felt via whatever process gets you off. Even that will wear off sooner or later.

Different media feeds at different rates. This is compounded by the fact that different cut patterns will also end up with different overall feed rates. This is because the more times the plotter has to move the media back and forth, the more opportunity for feed error build up. It doesn't...

Sawing rolls of vinyl will always produce somewhat less than satisfactory results. This is because toothed saws, all toothed saws, cut by chipping away at the material not by slicing through it. What if one were to mount a meat slicer blade on a conventional power miter? The blade would have...

You'd be wrong, by a long shot. That would depend very much on whether or not you regard what comes out of the printer as the truth or what appears on a monitor to be the truth. If the latter then I agree, bad advice. If the former then it's been working flawlessly for me on a myriad of...

Twaddle. How could you possible know if one media or another is being properly saturated? What is the criteria for proper saturation as opposed to improper saturation? How could you detect the difference without esoteric lab instruments? If the thing looks good, it no doubt is good. If your...

You can't do a black and white image with a large format printer and a conventional profile. It will always translate into CMYK, not monochrome black and white using just K or whatever it is you're using for black. You can get away with the odd gray that really isn't gray [and it seldom is]...

Probably not the ink. I hear the peanut gallery endlessly insisting that aqueous inks are ever so superior to solvent inks. Perhaps so but I've yet to see any noticeable difference, assuming that both printers are being operated by people who know and understand the machines they're wrangling...

Yet Another typographical collision at sea. Bad type faces, smarmy spelling, too much information. All in all, a disaster of about the magnitude of the Johnstown flood.

I never said I had no passion for design, I said I had no spiritual nor passionate investment in any particular job that comes through my shop. Big difference. For example, if I should set something up that the client, for whatever reason or no reason at all, doesn't like, that's fine by me...

Bad analogy. A sign product isn't a process occurring over some interval or another, it's a singularity, an object. The process by which it came into existence is not germane. In your analogy, the product is point B, how you arrived at point B is meaningless in this context. It's pretty much the...

I might be a lot of things but cute is not one of them. By your own description your product is a commodity. Your vacuous appeals to authority notwithstanding, if everything is unique then uniqueness cannot be a factor. If you had a box of identical rubber balls where all but one ball was...

Only if you can manage to live trap a sufficient number of clients that share your delusion. You and your work are about as special as a head cold. Regardless of how you and others huff and puff, you are dealing with a commodity. Merely because your work is unique does not make it...

To which the original poster should respond "It's nice being had."