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I agree that some large percentage of fonts are either useless, redundant, or are just not my style. These I simply discard into their own special coventry. Of the faces remaining that I might find useful I find that I can never predict exactly just what type face might be suitable for some...

Do Start->Settings->Control Panel Fonts->Tools->Folder Options->True Type Fonts And uncheck the "Show only True Type fonts..." selection box. The Open Type fonts will, as if by magic, appear in the windows fonts folder.

Not quite. I do believe that they sit there in your windows font directory just like the rest of them. If they didn't, they would be inaccessible by anything. It's true that font management software doesn't recognized them. Since most if not all font management software is as useless as tits...

On your plotter bring up the background settings and then, I think, 'Condition Priority'. Set it to 'Program' to have the plotter listen to setup commands from the software or to 'Manual' where the plotter will ignore software set up commands and it's own control panel settings will prevail...

Wrong but thanks for playing... The banding/streaking in question is in the feed direction, not in the direction of head movement. The wiper is not a player in this situation. It could be covered with boogers and growing hair and it wouldn't be generating streaking in this direction.

As everyone else has noted it's primarily heat but also infeed tension. You need a modest level of tension on the media supply. This bit of tension keeps the media from buckling which is the culprit in as many cases of banding in the feed direction as heat might be. The buckling you're...

I don't walk away but the client is invited to do so. My lack of interest in selling someone on something is total. In my shop the client gets to say what it says, I get to say how it says it. If some patron or another can't live with that, they're welcome to seek out the help of the nest of...

That's a notion the incompetent often use to rationalize their own mediocrity. One should strive to give the client what it needs, not what it might think that it wants. These are two very different things and if there is a correlation, it's only coincidental. Vis-a-vis this business, to give...

This isn't Western Union where you pay by the word. Words here are free so try to use as many of them as necessary to precisely describe what you're doing and what you're getting... What, exactly are you doing in Flexi to set up this job? Do you have some path on your image that's known to...

Not even close to enough information... How are you setting up the contour cut? In Flexi? In the Production Manager? How are you registering the image in the plotter? ARMS? Light point? Manually? 1" off means what, exactly? An inch too large, too small, to the left, to the right, up...

Somewhere in the dim past I seem to recall having seen a font intended to simulate print as in a newspaper or, in this case, a faux blueprint. It looks like it says something if only you could squint at it just right but it's just a bunch of shapes that look like type. I find myself in need...

Load them at the most primitive level: Start->Settings->Control Panel->Fonts->File->Install New Font... Do this and then you will know that they're installed. With any other method you can only infer that they are correctly installed. The truth is the Windows font directory. All else is...

The only way it could not show up in the font list for any application would be that it's packing a different name, perhaps something like 'MD Bengal' or you're still using the old-style .csm font file. Does the font file exist in your Windows font directory? If it does, then it damn well...

I'm running Flexi 7.6 so we should be in the same series and that particular file is listed as "Bengal MD Condensed Italic" in the Windows\Fonts directory but the actual file name is "bengel mdcondensed italic.ttf". If the name of a font and the name of the file that contains it are the same...

What version LXi? If memory serves, Flexi/LXi versions prior to 7.something had all of the fonts issued with the package in one large file in proprietary format. Something with a .CSM, or something like that, suffix. While the software could access fonts installed in the orthodox Windows...

While Flexi might be more accommodating to a TIF file, unfortunately TIF is a bitmap format file. PDF is a standard for packaging bitmap and vector information, among other things. That being the case, when to use TIF you loose acuity of vector objects, This information would be preserved in a...

Flexi, at least 7.6, seems to be somewhat less than graceful when dealing with layers. This is especially true if you bring in a large PDF and then rotate it in the production manager. More often than not, a large rotated PDF will take forever to process and rip and finally end up giving you a...

Try as I might I fail to see any reason for the frenzy of adoration for Juice Drops. As near as I can tell they're something that anyone with Adobe or Corel Photoxxxxx can slap together out of layers of random images, varying transparencies and farkeling around with color channels. I do it all...

There isn't a friction feed device on the planet that will feed material without some deviation. I'm not sure how packages other than Flexi accommodate this but I'd bet the rent that they do. In Flexi all you have to do is, in the Production Manager, select the setup that you want to correct...

Unfortunately installed fonts go in one single level directory. You can use lots of font manager packages to create collections of fonts based on whatever your prejudices might be and show you these collections as if they actually meant something. They only have meaning to the particualr font...