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They only used Trajan because the Tahoma font failed to load.

I thought sign people were supposed to use Arial for everything. Arial, aka "block." Also be sure to squeeze and stretch the hell out of it to fit any space.

I think Corel was doing better when they had CorelDRAW on a 2 year cycle between full version releases. That cycle provided more time for the development team to build up enough improvements to make full version upgrades somewhat substantial (not to mention have more time to fix bugs). The once...

That may come at the cost of having to sign up for the $16.50 per month subscription, $198 per year. That is if Corel's head honchos stick to their guns and kill the ability of perpetual license owners to upgrade. Only those who bought the buggy 2019 release and paid $99 extra for "upgrade...

Optima was also used on the 9/11 Memorial wall in Lower Manhattan. Actually it was the newer Optima Nova family, which contains far more weights, including ones with true small capitals character sets. The type family is freaking expensive to buy though, around $1400 for the full 60 font family...

I seem to recall Apple getting into a lot of bad publicity hot water recently regarding them deliberately slowing down older generation devices. It's a real thing. Apple's excuse: they've been doing it to protect the devices. An older, aging battery apparently has a greater risk of catching fire...

It's too bad we don't have something like the Star Trek universal translator device in real life. Trajan Pro and Trajan Sans Pro look good sand-blasted into marble.

In terms of screen navigation (zooming in/out and hand panning the view) Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign are FAR more intuitive than CorelDRAW. Combinations of the Ctrl, Alt and Spacebar keys toggle up zoom-in/out and hand pan functions regardless of the tool you're using at the time...

We use Onyx Thrive as the RIP for our two HP Latex printers and also use it to contour cut on a large Graphtec plotter. Our new Mimaki flatbed printer came with RasterLink Pro. We have licenses of Flexi, but none have the add-on RIP.

That is laughably way way wrong. I've been with my sign company since 1993. Back then the overwhelming majority of sign companies used PCs running MS-DOS & Windows as well as various brands of industry specific sign making software. CorelDRAW was a common denominator between all these shops...

You have a notebook that is running XP? That's interesting. My personal notebook is a system that's still running decent; it originally came with Win 7 Ultimate but I updated it to Win 10 Pro. But after 8.5 years it's pretty much overdue for a replacement given the performance demands of certain...

Specifically what am I assuming? I don't agree with your claim CorelDRAW is "100X better than Adobe" and "Industry Standard."

I keenly remember using CASmate. It was always fun to get an update via a stack of floppies in the mail! Back in the 1990's I first used it running it under MS-DOS, then Windows 3.1 and Win95. Around 1999 I got a new PC with Win98 SE and CASmate wouldn't run on it. It would crash not long after...

Who cares? If I'm already designing the sign in CorelDRAW or Illustrator there's no reason to get Blender involved in the production process. Now, if it's a big enough project and the customer wants to see a 3D rendering of a proposed sign incorporated into an image of the business site then...

I would never put printed vinyl onto the grips of any of my pistols. I mean, I try to try keep my hands clean, but dirt and hand sweat are going to muck up any image applied to pistol grips after only so many trips to the range. That is unless the gun is only going to be displayed in a case.

You do realize I can make 2D shapes to send to a routing table from within the application I was originally using to design the sign in the first place, yes? Usually that's going to be CorelDRAW and/or Adobe Illustrator. Or I can make the shapes within EnRoute itself. Why do I need to launch a...

I would expect similar features in two rival vector drawing programs to be coded differently, given they come from two different companies and two different development teams. It's the developer's job to create import/export filters that can translate between their own applications and those of...

The least thing a rival vendor can do is provide import accuracy between features that are duplicated between the two applications. And if there are glaring features missing then the vendor needs to update his product to keep up. If there are too many critical features missing compared to, for...

Most graphics applications have a slew of import and export filters. If a vendor comes along claiming he has a worthy replacement for Adobe Illustrator and wants to attract Illustrator users then the import and export filters of his "Illustrator-killer" must be on point. In order to sell to...

That's exactly what I expect. If some company comes along trying to sell me on abandoning the creative software I have been using for decades accurate file compatibility is an extremely important factor on making or breaking that deal. I have many thousands of files made over the past nearly 3...