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PDFs with embedded fonts aren't so bad, particularly if you only have to print it. It can be a bigger pain if you have to import the artwork for further editing. That really depends on the app used to create the PDF and the choices the user made when creating the PDF. Embedded fonts are a minor...

Employers in various fields of the graphics/advertising industry have always been pretty snobby over what they expect to see on a candidate's resume. This goes back 30 years. Adobe's applications have often been included in the must-have apps on the list, specifically Photoshop. In the 1990's...

I was in college 30 years ago; computer-based design was still in its infancy then. Many of the analog methods of illustration and graphic design were still very much in use. I've watched what the art school I attended has offered over the years. None of the course load revolved around learning...

That's not what I see taking place in the college I attended or even locally at the in-town university and vo-tech. The classes are more project-oriented rather than centered around pointing and clicking a certain recipe of steps to complete a mundane task. There is no need in wasting valuable...

You can make that claim with any piece of graphics software. The fact remains Adobe's software is far more common across the entire graphic design industry. Any universities, art schools or even trade schools teaching courses in graphic design are going to use the tools most commonly used in the...

A computer hardware or software company can get its ego pumped up by fanboys. Obviously there are hazards to feeding fanboy bluster in an echo chamber. It's far better for the company to have a sane, realistic idea of how they actually stand on their own and in relation to rivals, such as...

How about trying to practice what you preach?

I'm 99% certain the changes to CorelDRAW from a 2 year product cycle to annual and then later on to effectively a subscription-only arrangement was done as a cash grab. I think Corel has long seen itself as an equal to Adobe, despite what Adobe has done (and acquired) over the past 20 years...

Photoshop has its own internal strengths -things I believe it does much better than other rival applications. I like the user interface far more. The keyboard short cuts for many operations are vastly superior. Take for instance the Ctrl-Alt-Spacebar arrangement. I can zoom in/out and hand pan...

I bought Windows and iPad versions of Affinity Designer a couple or so months ago when they had their 50% off pandemic pricing special in effect. Affinity Designer has a fairly impressive set of features and capabilities for a lower-cost application. The .afdesign files work pretty seamlessly...

That contraption is really no different in fundamental principal than a digital printer. All it is doing is reproducing an existing image. It isn't creating anything new from scratch. And, yes, I would be able to tell quite easily that a machine "painted" the image rather than a human being.

There is a giant difference between painting an image by hand versus applying a cheezy oil paint filter to a photograph. I've seen professional landscape photographers do gallery shows where prints were output to types of canvas and either framed or just pulled and stapled over wood stretcher...

Those fatality rates are really apples to oranges comparisons since a bunch of variables are influencing the case fatality rates or overall fatality rates. It's very misleading to look at them in static terms. Also a bunch of these diagrams floating around on the Internet don't all show the same...

Corel seems to be changing and re-arranging existing features in the program just to make it look like they're doing more with each upgrade cycle. The changes they made to the Object Manager palette are no exception. The new default behavior of keeping desktop objects on layer and page is...

I remember some people tossing out charges of racism and xenophobia. But most of the criticism about Trump's so-called travel ban was that it was pointless. The virus was already here. Plus it was a selective ban only directed at Chinese nationals. That's actually what made a bunch of people...

Which is why I brought up my local county as an isolated example. Comanche County isn't a dense, high population center. It's not a tourist mecca (although the Wichita Mountains area has some interesting attractions). The most mobile group of people moving in and out of the area is the US Army...

New Zealand has some spectacular scenery, but it's not a huge country. With 104,483 square miles it ranks 75th in land mass. Japan has 40,000 more square miles of land. New Zealand is far more sparsely populated than Japan, but it has has a few reasonably large cities. Auckland has 1.6 million...

SARS-CoV-2 is prevalent in far more American places than just big cities with "blue" governments and black lives matter protesters. We don't have any protesting going on here in Comanche County, OK. Yet this county of only 120,000 people has 50% the number of total covid cases and deaths as New...

That ridiculous example does nothing to get away from the per capita facts of the matter. Cases per 100,000 people is a 100% relevant metric. And in that regard New Zealand is blowing us away. The US is the pathetic, puny moth flying into the turbines of a cargo jet.

Industry Ultra-Italic is close. But the apostrophe is different. I thought Forza Black Italic also looked similar. But it has the same problem.