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The difference with configuring a professional workstation tower from HP, Dell and other vendors of that sort is the price balloons up based on the CPUs, graphics boards, ECC RAM and other stuff that goes inside the case. The price isn't inflated based on the styling of its outside or the...

The new Mac Pro tower is ridiculously over-priced for what's included in the tower. Let's not forget about the especially douchey $1000 computer monitor stand. I don't even know what kind of customer Apple expects to buy this polished cheese grater, other than rich, modern-day Marie Antoinette...

Avid is still popular on the high end, where their software has been entrenched for a much longer time. On the sound editing angle, Pro Tools is still the king of professional-level audio editing applications. Nevertheless, all the local TV stations in my viewing market are using Adobe software...

Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign have been ruling the roost of the print graphics and publishing world. Adobe is not dominating that market out of customer apathy either. The 3 applications have close integration with each other which is completely unmatched by anyone else. Those 3...

I can't get anything from Inkscape to work correctly. Maybe it's a bug with this latest version. But the art board in SVG files output from Inkscape come into Thrive Cut Server only showing a 12" X 24" art board and the graphics going way out of those bounds. That's confirmed by opening the...

I've been in this business even longer. It's possible for a sign shop not to use any Adobe software at all and use whatever it likes if the shop is creating all of its work from scratch. When you have to use artwork from a broad variety of clients (national brands down to mom and pop...

Having loaded up the latest version of Inkscape, I remembered the application didn't support spot colors. At least it didn't the last time I used it. How does one assign a custom spot color named "CutContour" to an outline stroke in Inkscape? I don't see any options in the Fill & Stroke dialog box.

We can scale artwork in the printing section. Unfortunately there are no scaling options in the cut server side. If Inkscape can support a 20' wide art board then we'll just have to use that. I haven't messed with Inkscape in several years, so I don't know its max art board size. The Onyx Cut...

Sometimes we'll use Onyx Thrive to do cut-only operations with a 48" wide plotter. The cut jobs require SVG files. Normally we generate those in Adobe Illustrator, and those SVG files work just fine. Now we have a cut job that is 20' long, which is past the max art board size limits of Adobe...

Yeah, here we go again. You, in your embroidery business, do not need any Adobe software or any other software that involves a subscription. Heard that loud and clear. Count yourself lucky that you're in the unique situation of ditching MS Windows and telling Adobe and anyone else wanting to...

Adobe, for better or worse, is wielding more and more of a monopoly hammer to pound on the heads of anyone in creative industries. I've been using Adobe software on my own for almost 30 years -even for a decent period of time when my workplace wasn't buying Adobe products. Today it is getting...

One problem with your example: you have the lettering sized according to the height of the "C" letter. Round letters like that commonly rise above the cap height line and dip below the baseline. Below are some screen shot images of glyphs in Font Lab Studio. One is a "E" from Adobe Garamond...

Okay, Johnny. Please explain in specifics just how you quickly size capital letters in a text object to a specific size without converting the text to outlines. Please explain in specifics just how you vertically align a text object to a container shape without converting the text to outlines...

The better way would be Adobe incorporating new features as I described above. Currently Illustrator users have to employ all sorts of time-wasting hacks to do basic things with editable text objects, such as vertically aligning a text object in a box or some other container. It's easy enough...

I have been bugging Adobe about this in their feature request forums for years, and also in their beta user forum. Adobe Illustrator, like PageMaker and so many other graphics applications, only sees type as objects that relate to a point-based layout grid on a printed sheet of paper. The actual...

2' X 12' is tiny cabinet for flex faces. They must be using something kind of hinky stretch and attach the faces to the frame. Meanwhile, I would even question the use of polycarbonate (aka Lexan) at that size. Is the face going to be pan-formed or flat? If the face is going to be flat then I...

My friend, I think what you're talking about is ETHICS. Personally, I'm a big fan of ethics. Being ethical is when, while no one is watching, you have the free and clear opportunity to do something that is fundamentally wrong and get away with it. But you still choose to do the right thing...

Whether one is being paid or not makes no difference. It's still unauthorized use of another firm's intellectual property. Disney has filed suit against businesses and even private individuals for painting Disney-owned characters on their property. Around 30 years ago I heard of one guy who...

Unless the artwork is larger than 227" X 227" I design it at full size and output it that way without any scaling. If the artwork has any raster-based elements in it then I choose a PPI setting that isn't going to bog down the computer, but still look good. 72ppi works pretty well for most large...

If you have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription the entire Agency FB family is available to sync via Adobe Fonts (aka Typekit).