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I am not a big fan at all of web browser-based applications. There's too much overhead for graphics app use. Nevertheless, that reminds me Corel also has a cloud based CorelDRAW app as yet another thing to throw on an already full plate for developers. Version 2019, even with the third...

By the way, it looks like Corel's online store has jumped the gun with the January 20 upgrade deadline. The online store is only showing the full $499 retail version and $198 per year annual subscription being available. Maybe they should have been saying January 19 in all these recent CorelDRAW...

No, it's nerdy hair-splitting. I'm not writing a legal contract here. Shell, VM'ing, two cans hooked up to a string, I don't care about the semantics of it. It's besides the point. It's a totally off topic thread-drift side bar that has nothing to do with Mac users not liking the native Mac...

The term "shell" or "virtual machine" is besides the point I was making. Anyone on a Mac using a previous version of CorelDRAW had to run the Windows version of it some way. The real point is those users were accustomed to the UI layout, keyboard shortcuts, etc of the Windows version. Apparently...

A lot of the de-professionalism that took place in the graphic design industry began in the late 1980's to early 1990's when graphic design applications began proliferating on desktop computers. The mindset was, "why do we need these expensive graphic designers anymore when the computers are...

I'm on an advisory board at our city's local Vo-Tech, since they offer a kind of graphics design training program. And I also talk with some faculty members at our local university concerning the same fields of study. From a standpoint of higher education it's pretty difficult to put together a...

Looks like an odd rip-off of Gotham with a really terrible looking "J".

Some client-provided "logos" can look terrible or even unintentionally funny. But we won't act as the "Design Police" unless the artwork is going to create a problem with fabrication or will just be illegible. For example we've had customers want really modest sized channel letters yet expect...

Adobe isn't going to give away thousands of commercial fonts (quite a few of which are recent releases) for free, especially when the foundries who make those fonts are still charging quite a lot of money for them via normal channels. For most of my design work I end up converting the type to...

The fonts are "installed" through the Adobe Fonts website, which you can access directly at fonts.abobe.com/fonts or via the Creative Cloud desktop panel. The fonts do require an always on Internet connection. When Typekit was first made available to Creative Cloud there was a limit of 100...

Yeah, it's all fun and games for guys like that until someone at City Hall gets a bug in their @$$ about it and makes his operation an issue. Or someone from OSHA, DOT, EPA, etc shows up at his business wanting to inspect stuff and go over his books to see how he has been complying with...

Just to clarify, Adobe Fonts has over 1800 type families available. Most of the individual families have multiple fonts to use, some have dozens of weights available. Overall I think it adds up to several thousand font files. I have noticed some limitations though. A few families may have...

Adobe Fonts is a pretty good perk that comes with a Creative Cloud membership. Over 1800 type families are available to sync, many of which are commercial families that cost a lot to buy outright. They periodically add more commercial families to the collection from a pretty wide variety of type...

I guess it comes down to one's definition of what qualifies as a real sign company. My opinion is a real sign company is one that has an actual building/store front and is able to build, install and service permanent electrical signs of various types. Further, a real sign company will have...

Is there any attached image showing the sample typeface?

I was really surprised the Mac version of CorelDRAW 2019 turned out as bad as it did. Corel put out all of this hype that the Mac version was built from the ground up as a true OSX application and that they worked closely with Apple on the product's development. One complaint I've seen is from...

The current upgrade costs $199. To be able to upgrade that copy to the 2020 version you also have to add $99 for their "Upgrade Protection." The way it looks to me is that perpetual license owners would pay about $300 up front to be able to automatically upgrade each following year for $99...

I don't expect Corel to turn off activation servers for version X6 and later anytime soon. But I don't expect them to be kept online indefinitely. Corel could start doing like Adobe did years ago with its first versions of Creative Suite. They started by disconnecting the activation servers for...

You can buy a portable/external DVD-R/RW drive, which can connect to a notebook computer via USB, for around $20-$30. Higher end external drives that can read and write Blu-ray discs are available as well.

The past couple days I've been greeted with new CorelDRAW "upgrades are ending" pop-up ads. Now they're giving a specific deadline date when perpetual license owners must upgrade in order to be able to continue getting discounted upgrade pricing, via their "upgrade protection" program. The...