Recent content by Bobby H

"Experience the Power of being waxed?" The phrase immediately reminds me of that scene in The 40 Year old Virgin where Steve Carell gets his chest waxed.

It's a bit difficult to say from how badly weathered the lettering is on that sign. But it does look like ITC Century. And someone artificially squeezed the living hell out of it. The "U" isn't backwards either.

Illustrator and Photoshop are must-have apps for me (along with Astute Graphics' plugins for Illustrator). I don't have to use InDesign all that often, but if a client gives me something created in InDesign and I have to do any further edits to the layout I'd very much prefer using a copy of the...

Affinity Designer can be hit or miss at opening PDF files saved by Illustrator. It all depends on what kinds of effects were baked into the artwork. The current version (2.6.3) of Affinity Designer does a better job at it than the version 1 builds. It still doesn't cover everything though...

It looks like they started with a bold-wide style of Font Bureau's Agency Gothic and then customized it a good bit (thickening it more and altering letter shapes).

Lexan (polycarbonate) is more flexible. If it isn't secured really good to the return it will be likely to blow off (just like the previous face). With the existing channel cloud shape having radius corners it might be necessary to get a face area pattern from the existing aluminum return. Or...

Our shop is kind of in the dark with the same situation. Supposedly people at Grimco are supposed to email us to tell us how to contact the appropriate techs to service the HP printers. :rolleyes:

We moved away from using VersaWorks around 12 or so years ago when we retired a VersaCAMM printer and bought our first HP Latex printer. Newer versions of VersaWorks may be better. Back then we struggled with serious limitations, like not being able to do print and cut jobs using PDF files. The...

Onyx isn't difficult to learn. But it's not an all-in-one kind of solution like Flexi tries to be. It doesn't have a design application front end. The application is great at managing print jobs. Learning how to create quick sets will speed up the work flow. Onyx has an Adobe certified PDF print...

I guess it's pronounced "Fraaaaanciiscvvvs." :oops:

Aside from the basic stuff like taking good, straight-on photos of the vehicle and getting proper measurements the actual design work requires some strategy. The actual wrap installation is a not-perfect thing. So avoid doing things like making border striping effects that follow around wheel...

Are you using a rich black for the black color in the gradient? A red color transitioning to a plain 100% K black color is more likely to have issues with banding and odd looking colors in between than a rich black color that uses all four CMYK inks. Depending on the red color values and how...

We have 3 old licenses of Flexi at my workplace; they're mainly used for things like vinyl cutting or doing minor things to artwork to bring into EnRoute. All of the actual design work is getting done in CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. We bypassed the option to add large format RIP...

Inter has a variable version. The companion static font files are derived from the variable version. I missed that discussion. I've used Illustrator for more than 30 years and I definitely see it as a potentially big problem for Illustrator to not show a wireframe of live text objects. Anyone...

That's odd. I see overlapping letters in static fonts more often from fonts downloaded from Google Fonts. I've even encountered a couple of type families that had only static fonts (no variable versions included) yet still had glyphs with overlapping parts. I think this is a side-effect of...