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Since you keep selling open source (especially with this comment) what specific open source sign making applications and open source graphics applications should the OP be using? It might not be your intention, but the comment above implies we're all foolish for using commercial software. I...

I'm not a hardcore "tree hugger" type, but I am really troubled about the amount of trash, hazardous waste and plastics in particular finding its way into our lakes and the oceans. I think climate change is a very serious issue, but this waste thing is much more dire since it has more immediate...

I mainly go to the big ISA show to see cutting edge new products. Vendors are more likely to bring out the big guns for the ISA show. I was hoping the Samsung booth would have at least one display there based on "The Wall" .84mm technology. Still there was some impressive LED boards on display...

The sales pitch on switching to open source applications is still there simply by saying the negative stuff about "closed source" software. It implies that going open source is the solution to the original poster's problem. Otherwise why even bring up the topic in the first place? Not everyone...

The joys of open source software, pertaining to graphic design: not having the tools needed to get a task completed adequately and having to accept all sorts of limitations. "Closed source proprietary software," normally called commercially developed software is an unavoidable fact of life for...

No sign company should operate as if it is a charity. Good clients understand that. If there isn't a mutually beneficial arrangement in doing a job, being able to make least some money off of the work, then we won't do it. If the client wants to take the project to a rival sign company that's...

What, specifically, was the reason to never ever visit Las Vegas (aka "Lost Wages") ever again? I'm not much of a gambler myself and tend to stay away from that kind of stuff, regardless of its presence in Las Vegas or the smorgasbord of tribe-run casinos here in Oklahoma. Nevertheless there...

The Arizona printer was pretty cool. I liked some of the high resolution LED displays. Daktronics had a full 1080p 1.9mm pitch unit hanging over their exhibit. I was hoping Samsung would have a bigger booth display and have some units out their based on their Onyx cinema screen tech and the...

First of all the example you bring up is from the distant past. It doesn't really apply to what is happening now. Next, the whole "the losers have no drive; set forth and conquer" pitch seems to imply everyone has the same chance at success regardless of background. We all know that's a bunch of...

If you're born poor you're probably going to grow up to be poor too. Americans like to think this country is completely above that. And it might have been decades and centuries in the past. The mechanisms of our society today are devolving it into an old-world caste system. All we need left is...

As usual in discussions on topics like this certain misconceptions get dragged out and repeated. That wouldn't happen without a little thought and maybe a tad bit of research. Regarding the tangent about life expectancy in the United States, here's a little news flash: life expectancy in the...

I think income inequality is a serious and worsening problem. But I think it's a symptom of much worse, structural issues in our economy/society that are unsustainable over the long term. The high costs of health care, higher education, housing and government debt all add up to something that...

What does "GOARD" mean? Is it a monster in a super hero movie? One of Godzilla's offspring? They could file down the top of the "O" and use a little touch up paint. That might fix it.:D Even though it's spelled correctly, I still can't stand how the lettering looks on that ribbon. Also, what's...

That lettering is just a modified version of Font Bureau's Agency typeface. They took the Bold Condensed weight and modified the shapes a little. If you don't already have FB Agency, but subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud you can sync FB Agency from Adobe Fonts.

There is no catch to those introductory discounts at MyFonts. They're legal and usually directed by the type foundry releasing the new type family in order to juice its popularity. Other sites like FontShop and Fonts.com do the same thing with many new foundry releases. Sometimes if the discount...

Many specialty materials, such as fabrics or flex face canvas for canopies or awnings, often have their own specific swatch books. It's no different than swatch books for brands of different kinds of colored roll vinyl to run through a vinyl cutter/plotter. At best, Pantone swatch books are...

I watch the MyFonts web site pretty closely along with a couple others. MyFonts appears to have more introductory deals on new type releases than other competing sites. It's pretty nice to snag a new, high quality OpenType family loaded with lots of OTF features at a 80% or 90% discount. It's no...

We buy a lot of fonts not bundled in graphics software. I usually buy OpenType fonts from MyFonts. I can't recall ever having a problem embedding font data with any of those purchased fonts into a PDF. Heck, most of the fonts I sync from Adobe Fonts/Typekit will embed into PDFs.

Regarding DRM features with fonts, very few of the commercial fonts I own or my workplace owns will prevent font embedding in PDFs. Nevertheless, the only fonts I keep live in any PDFs I create are the typefaces used for sign descriptions, material specifications and other info. Everything in...

I've long known about the font conversion trick with PDFs, but it does require a fairly current version of Adobe Illustrator for the trick to work. And the application generating the PDF must embed the fonts (or subsets of them) as well. On the bright side most applications do embed font data by...