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I'm holding off with the Win11 upgrade for the time being. I have a fairly new 17" Alienware notebook and occasionally get notices I can install Win11 on it. I've been waiting several weeks for a new desktop system I have on order for work. That one has Win10 Pro pre-loaded. I don't want to get...

Inkscape has pretty decent capabilities. As far as I can tell, it's the only free/low-cost vector drawing application with full support of OpenType Variable fonts. I just don't like the user interface. It is very clunky. Every time I use Inkscape it feels like stepping into a time machine back...

For a brief time several years ago Adobe Illustrator was able to open/import CDR files, but Adobe removed the capability due to technical problems. One experience I had was Illustrator completely locked up when I tried opening a CDR file. Then it refused to launch after that. Worse yet, none of...

I'm a little foggy on how Adobe pushes users to stay relatively current with running Adobe applications. If someone is running Adobe CC applications that are more than a couple years old I don't know if Adobe forces the users to update to newer versions. It is a little surprising Astute Manager...

The email from Astute Graphics yesterday was more to do about compatibility with MacOS Monterey and Windows 11, plus a warning they will deprecate compatibility for macOS 10.10 and 10.11, Windows 7 and 8.1 "in the near future." Adobe's CC applications aren't compatible with those OSes anymore...

For some odd reason Graphtec chose first to update the Mac version of Cutting Master 4 to support Illustrator 26 (CC 2022) before taking care of its Windows version. Aren't these guys aware the vast majority of sign companies are running Windows systems? Quite a few industry specific sign...

I'm not familiar with Vectorworks. But reading through some of the knowledge base articles the application appears to be primarily designed for viewing certain 3D modeling files. It shows support for viewing EPS and PDF files, but details are not very clear on that. It does not appear to support...

My profile is now saying I'm a "new member." How can I be a new member when I've been participating here since 2005? I think an admin messed up something.

Currently there is no really good one-stop solution for browsing graphics files, particularly vector-based graphic files. I use Adobe Bridge to visually preview Adobe Illustrator AI, EPS and PDF files. I installed CorelDRAW with the thumbnails extension so CDR-based content will show up...

You could try using a cone-shaped gradient. That's actually something unique to CorelDRAW and not found in Adobe Illustrator. Just be careful how the gradient is output/exported.

Astute Graphics' Vector First Aid plugin for Adobe Illustrator is pretty good at spotting (and eliminating) duplicate paths. Often it's a side effect of imported PDF artwork. Duplicate paths and other paths that have no fill or stroke are common in that scenario.

I've seen this script before (and even used it, I think) but I can't jog my brain well enough to remember the typeface. Any help is appreciated.

Impress was used on the hours. "No Smoking" looks like Frutiger. "Pappy's" is Goudy Old Style. "Burgers Sandwiches Salads" looks like Souvenir.

Anyone have any ideas of the typeface ID for the attached sample? Dafont has a jillion pages of sci fi fonts. Thanks in advance for any help.

At first glance I thought it was Lucida Bright or Linotype Linoletter. But neither of those is right. I know I've seen it before but it's not coming to me yet.

Thanks Fred. I looked at Exo 2, but failed to select the original Exo. I even have the commercial version of Exo Slab Pro. Yeah I feel dense now.

Bumping this thread again for Fall 2021 on the occasion of Microsoft rolling out Windows 11. While I've heard some decent things about the Windows 11 update I'm wondering what Windows 11 could take away from PC users. In the context of this thread I'm wondering about fonts, specifically OS...

Ok, this one is kind of driving me nuts. I swear I've seen the typeface used in the attached sample somewhere at a free fonts site like Google Fonts or Font Squirrel. I just can't seem to remember the typeface name. TIA for any help!

I'll second the recommendation of shopping at the MyFonts web site, as well as other legit commercial fonts sales sites (fonts.com, fontshop, letterhead fonts, etc). I check the MyFonts site at least a couple or so times per week to see what is newly released, new fonts that are selling best and...

Not only could the newer plotters cut faster, they could cut smaller details too without chewing up the vinyl. I remember around the end of 1993 I made a vector re-creation of the "Jurassic Park" movie logo and cut it out of vinyl. It took what seemed like at least several minutes for the 4B cut...