I see lots of issues on that autotraced file attached here. I am curious, how many of you would consider this acceptable and just use the file as is?
The OP said it was going on a banner he was either donating or discounting the price of.
I didn't do it to deprive anybody of anything. It was to illustrate just how easy it can be to do something that any self-respecting signmaker with even a few years of experience should have in their grasp. To pay anybody, Merchant Member or not for such a fundamentally simple task that EVERYBODY should have the software and ability to do for a donated banner seems like a reach. Its not a set of $10,000 channel letters that a Merchant Member didn't get. Context does count a little.
If the site overlord who apparently monitors every single thread was concerned about the integrity of the site nearly 24 hours per day, why wasn't the second post in the thread from him, recommending that a Member Merchant be used?
If it was me, I'd only have used the flame and book graphic as a guide, redrawn them cleanly and then recreated the text. All in a matter of minutes.