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I agree that the Optimize by Curve tool is a gem. So are some of the others. Unfortunately, for the reasons I previously mentioned and a number of others, Flexi's path manipulation tools basically suck when taken as an entire package and compared to other packages. Even the Optimize by Curve...

It's generally consider to be Bad Form to embed fonts into PDF's. Most every PDF output interface either allows you to convert text to paths or just does it for you without asking. As previously noted by others, you should use this capability.

Flexi is great for arranging together some text and images and sending them off to a plotter or printer. Flexi excels with it's inline/outline/contour mechanisms. Visually the very same thing can be done with other packages. Mechanically Flexi Keeps everything proper and right for cutting...

If you can't deal with the letter 'A', an oval, and a couple of primitive hockey sticks you really should consider another line of work.

You have it about right. Because the fellow who was charged with making the main model of the death star, one Colin Cantwell, was given two hemispheres of styrofoam and couldn't get them to properly join up into a passable sphere. Hence the trench to hide the mis-match. At least that's what...

Banner tape. Here and there around the perimeter has been working for me for the last four years.

When I first heard that one it featured a polar bear and an Eskimo maiden.

Flexi doesn't recognize anyone else's transparencies. You have to import the bitmap into Flexi then do Bitmaps->Make Transparent. The select the area you want to be transparent with the wand. You can select multiple areas by holding the shift key and invoking the wand. You can also use the...

Never bruised one but I did fracture one once. Damn near split that sucker right in half. The result of a cow, a horse, and myself trying to occupy the same space at the same time at about 40mph, saying to myself at the time "This is really gonna hurt." Three days in the ICU and a couple of...

Regardless of just how many buttons you might have to invoke in some other package, there is no real way to do an Adobe/Corel style faded drop shadow in Flexi. The method mentioned above produces rather unsatisfactory results. Flexi primarily deals in vector objects and provides limited and...

I fail to comprehend the mindless adoration being dealt to someone who's only claim to fame is that he puts vinyl on things. He's not healing the sick, raising the dead, or turning water into wine. It doesn't matter a whit how much skill and grace is on display, it's remains just putting vinyl...

I assume that the problem area is a gradient and you're going from Flexi through the RIP and Print to Production manager. Make sure the gradient is specified to be in CMYK and not RGB. This is the only time you really want to use CMYK. To what are your rendering intents set? Make sure that...

I've used high pressure laminate flooring, Pergo, Wilson, etc. to good effect in this sort of application. It's relatively cheap, thin, lightweight, comes in a bewildering variety of woods, finishes, and colors, and is relatively easy to assemble into a seamless substrate of most any size...

All of those samples are signs, not logos. A logotype is something that is easily recognizable and is symbolic, sometimes in an obscure abstract manner, of the thing being represented. It does not necessarily even have any text to it but it can. All you have done is express the name, and as...

To keep the roll on the rollers stick a length of 1" PVC pipe through the roll and overlapping the roller supports. Then bungee the PCV to the roller supports with a couple of mini-bungees. Works for me every time. I even notched the PVC pipe so it fits solidly on the roll supports. It adds...

The blue holder is for the .09mm blade and the red holder is for the .15mm blade. Both blade sizes come in 45 and 60 degrees.

There is only one thing you need to know about enlarging bit maps. When you enlarge a bit map, pixels which did not exist must be created. Information which did not previously exist must be conjured up out of whole cloth. The only reasonable way to do this is to extrapolate the value of a new...

Depends on which spring mechanism you're talking about. Do not lubricate the blade up/down mechanism, all you'll do is make a dust collector out of it. It should be dry of all lubricants. If the blade is dragging try removing the dust cover form the tool carriage and blowing the dust and crud...

When I need words put into my mouth I and I alone will put them there. I said "ill-conceived" I did not say "horrible product". Any system capable of mindlessly executing messages deserves everything that happens to it. You don't see any of this nonsense happening anywhere but on Microsoft...

Microsoft puts out an operating system that is sufficiently ill conceived that it is at risk for all manner of mischief. Then that very same Microsoft publishes another package that is supposed to deliver you from all of the possible malfeasance that they themselves made possible. Sounds a...