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What large format RIP application is your shop using? If the RIP has an Adobe PDF print engine it should be able to output PDF files generated by Adobe Illustrator or InDesign without any problem. The PNG format is not a good fall-back option, especially for printing. Yep. One of the reasons...

That doesn't let the city government off the hook. Forcing a company to change its logo colors on a sign would still violate that 1990's legal precedent. Many signs only depict the company's brand.

Yes. Any vector objects containing gradient fills will have those vector fills preserved when exported in PDF format, including fills that contain varying levels of transparency. The default settings in Illustrator also append Illustrator data to PDF files (the "preserve Illustrator editing...

I thought it was illegal for city governments to force color schemes on company branding. There was a law suit in the 1990's involving Blockbuster Video and another video store chain versus the city of Tempe, AZ. The city was trying to force Blockbuster to change the familiar blue and yellow...

PDF files exported from CorelDRAW don't tend to work so well. I have the best luck saving CorelDRAW artwork as Adobe Illustrator CS6 AI files. Still, some objects may import with errors and need to be corrected. Blocks of paragraph text or artist text will often have line spacing all screwed up...

I didn't know that about their clip art. The times I've been forced to mess around with Canva usually involved creating some type objects or creating/editing other non-stock objects and then generating a PDF of the results. Some of the fonts people use in Canva are unique to that application...

Actually it is possible to save a vector-based version of Canva documents using the free version. You have to export the document as a "PDF for Print."

I can't recall seeing the script in the attached image before. Anyone have any ideas? TIA for any help.

It's not difficult to make your own "section detail" drawings of channel letters. Plus, those kinds of things need to be able to be customized easily so the dimensions and specs can change. That's not easy to get from a piece of stock clip-art (especially something in a PDF). Every sign shop has...

For that kind of irregular surface, if the lettering is meant to hold up for many years I wouldn't use any sort of vinyl directly on the concrete at all. Masking and painting is one possible solution. But I would try to get them to consider using flat, routed letters and stud mount them to the...

I swear I've seen this typeface before; I think it's something that has been around a long time too. At first glance I thought it was Stone Sans, but that's not quite it. Cronos Pro also has a similar looking "P" but is even farther off the mark. The various online font matching services are...

It's a bit different than Coolvetica.

It looks like one of the Brainreactor fonts. Neutronica-Geometric.

I'm surprised companies like Toyo and Trumatch haven't been able to put much of a dent in Pantone's dominance of color libraries for print. Pantone has been around for a long time though. Back when graphics production work was done using analog methods it was common for employers to require...

Matching Pantone colors (or getting as close as possible) is very critical when handling a major company's brand assets. Some of these clients will do sign companies a favor by also having other material specs in addition to the Pantone colors. Those could be opaque and translucent vinyl colors...

So far I have avoided signing up for Pantone Connect. I think it's a rip-off. They want $180 per year for some digital swatch books? On top of the $200 or so it costs to buy a physical set of Pantone Color Formula Guide swatches? No thanks. Aside from that I've seen all sorts of complaints...

GPL palettes are a GIMP and Inkscape thing. I suppose various fanboys can craft their own custom palettes of Pantone spot colors. But it's going to be their own judgments (or guesses) on RGB-CMYK-L*a*b values with how those palettes work rather than getting the legit values from people at...

I think which ever "decider guy" at Pantone dreamed up this business strategy must have been spending a few nights sleeping in air-tight plastic cleaners bags before fever-dreaming up that ploy. Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator are all very dominant in the specific graphics industry...

All the mergers, buy-outs and monopolization will lead to ever more financial squeezing of end users, customers, etc until we end up in our next great depression. This private equity mindset or ideology that has infected much of the business world knows no sense of balance. These greedy idiots...

Regarding the original first post, the designer who chewed out JBurton should have known better about the Pantone thing a couple of years ago when the first warnings were issued. I made backups of the Pantone ACB files from Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Many other Adobe software users did...