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Laminates do only so much to protect printed inks from UV radiation. Plus the effects of weather take their toll over time. The stuff is not as durable as the stock colored high intensity retro-reflective vinyls. But the digital printed approach can be less expensive. Ultimately it's a trade-off...

What I mean is that you can't simply print flat colors onto any kind of standard vinyl and expect that to pass for highway sign standards. The only kinds of printing that can be done is various degrees of transparent/translucent printing onto clear vinyl as an overlay on white Type III high...

I'm still seeing the same font handling issues that were present in CDR 2020. Some font files don't show up in the font menu. I think the root cause is how CorelDRAW and its font manager treat upright versus italic fonts. Some fonts can be accessed by clicking the Italic button on the toolbar...

Because creating alternate characters is a better approach for most kinds of typefaces. OpenType technology allows for that and many other bonuses which enable superior quality typography. Plenty of contemporary fonts made over the past 20 years have taken advantage of the extended features of...

I can't help with the font ID. But it's possible that script lettering may be from a stock typeface rather than hand drawn. Quite a few newer script typefaces with extended OpenType character sets will contain various alternates for the same letter to appear more like a natural hand-drawn script.

Someone probably told the "designer" the artwork had to be 300dpi. So what do they do? Artificially up-rez it to 300dpi.

The Federal Highway Administration has Pantone spot color standards for publishing illustrations of traffic signs in paper-based documents: https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/kno-colorspec.htm You can develop L*a*b approximations from those Pantone specs. For actual traffic signs that will be installed...

I use the re-sampling (aka down-rezzing) option in the CorelDRAW "Publish to PDF" dialog box all the time. You can automatically reduce high res images to more e-mail friendly file sizes. You can adjust the levels of JPEG compression. You also have the option to use LZW compression if you don't...

In our shop's case our licenses of Flexi are mainly used to drive vinyl cutters or set things up to port over to EnRoute. We have Onyx and Rasterlink Pro driving our printers. Obviously we don't have the RIP functions turned on in our (aging) copies of Flexi. Setting something up just for...

Are you trying to claim you can't use XML-based scripts in Adobe Illustrator? Regarding plugins, it sounds like you're falling back on the whole "open source" excuse with repeating the "Open API" deal. Illustrator has allowed plugins since the early 1990's a full decade before Inkscape's initial...

Affinity Designer doesn't have any built-in vinyl cutting/plotting capability. AFAIK no one has made any vinyl cutting/plotting add-ons for Affinity Designer. With that being said, I'd rather do design work in Affinity Designer than I would in Flexi. With an appropriate document PPI setting the...

In other words you don't have an answer. You can't name any examples of truly innovative features in much younger vector drawing programs. It's easy for you (or anyone else) to dismiss anything new Adobe or even Corel offers as not being "innovative" or at best "iterative." Anyone can $#!+ on a...

What specifically are any newer vector drawing programs doing that qualifies as being "innovative?" What are they doing that is any different or even better than what is offered in Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW? Those 30 year old applications may be "long in the tooth," but I have yet to see...

What version of CorelDRAW are you using? If you're on a recent build then the Contour function would be found on the left tool bar in the drop-down menu underneath the Shadow tool icon. Not difficult to find. BTW, the typeface in question in your attached image sample is Monotype Script MT. Just...

The "layers level of excitement" 25-30 years ago was rooted in the fact early vector drawing programs largely sucked. The same was true for pixel-based image editors. They were extremely limited in what they could do. When some ground-breaking new feature (such as layers) was introduced it meant...

I don't agree with that. Any lack of innovation really comes down to individual companies. It's not an across-the-board thing. Also, let's not forget when old stalwart applications like Illustrator were "young" they were very basic. New features, like being able to edit objects in preview mode...

I have the latest versions of Affinity Designer installed on my work PC, home laptop and iPad Pro. But I haven't switched from primarily using CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator as my applications of choice for vector design work. Still, I think it's important to try out new tools. There are...

Thread bump. Earlier today Serif Ltd released the version 1.9.2 update for Affinity Designer, for Windows, MacOS and iPadOS. They also released similar updates for their Publisher and Photo applications. The updates are mainly a collection of bug fixes and performance improvements. More info is...

The one we have is fairly old; we purchased it used from a sign shop that was closing. I would suggest getting in touch with Computerized Cutters, Inc for help with installation.

There are rumblings Microsoft may remove support for Postscript Type 1 fonts in Windows. I remember a previous Windows update a couple or so years ago disabling all the T1 fonts I had installed in the Fonts folder. Another update allowed T1 fonts to be installed again. I don't use Microsoft...