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Wanna try refuting any of those CDC numbers with some reliable sources, rather than just Internet heresay? The Centers of Disease Control is a non-partisan entity. And I've seen those same cause of death numbers backed up by other sources. Suicide is a particular stand-out. Us American Idiots...

Regardless of anyone's political bias, the United States' current health care system is operating under a mathematically unsustainable model. The math is getting worse year after year. That is an absolute undeniable fact. The United States currently spends 17.5% of its GDP on health care. Over...

I continue to be amazed at all the working class people who defend the United States' "free market" health care system. There's really nothing "free market" about it. We have lots of localized monopolies with no standards or controls on how treatment is priced. Medical patients don't have the...

Duplicate objects (one object sitting on top of another identical object) can be caused a few different things. I see it a lot in customer provided artwork generated in Adobe Illustrator. The Outline Pen effect is the biggest culprit. I always "finalize" my artwork. If there are any outline...

There is good and bad with X8. I like the improved transparency effects, such as varying levels of transparency on gradient fills. That makes it slightly easier to deal with Adobe Illustrator generated artwork. PDF and SVG import functions have been improved (but are still not 100% perfect)...

I had no difficulty installing any of the Adobe CC 2017 applications, including Illustrator, on my slightly aging Windows PC. I'm running the latest Win 10 Pro build. However, I've been dealing with an annoying bug in Illustrator. A dialog box constantly pops up with the message: "The operation...

Update: We were able to cure the CorelDRAW X8 print crashes by updating the office printer's driver. I had a slightly newer version of it running on my workstation, which wasn't crashing. It wasn't easy getting the driver updated. We had to go through our service supplier's web site to get it...

Usually that message appears when the file has some kind of damage to it, like if it was written to a disc drive with bad sectors on it or something. Does this error appear regardless of what elements Corel X8 is saving in the .AI, .EPS or .PDF files? Does the error appear when exporting .AI...

That's a decent work-around if the user is able to print a sketch "as is" without needed to make any changes in preferences. For multiple page sketches our office printer can do 2 sided printing and change the way the back side of the page is printed. I often have to get into the preferences and...

My shop just bought a couple upgrades to CorelDRAW X8, thanks to an enticing in-app ad showing an upgrade price of only $139. A couple or so days after installing the upgrades my coworker started having a problem with her copy. Whenever she tries to print a sketch to our office laser printer the...

Screen printing mainly gets used on the smaller signs. The large signs, such as the big green overhead signs on freeways, don't have screen printed graphics. They're decorated with one layer of the green prismatic vinyl and cut white reflective vinyl is applied over that. Oklahoma DOT and the...

In the United States traffic control signs installed in the right of way of streets have to conform to MUTCD (Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices) specifications. Cities and towns have some latitude on how certain kinds of directional signs can be designed and built, such as decorative...

Serpentine Bold

That font design looks like it started out with Industria and just changed a few things about it.

The typeface is the attached sample looks pretty familiar, but I just can't seem to figure out the ID of it. Any help would be appreciated. The lettering is from some customer provided artwork, but I re-arranged it into a little more odd/funny anagram. I need to use the same typeface on a...

I'm pretty frustrated trying to ID this one and need some help. The typeface used in this sample looks familiar and I'm all but certain I have it somewhere in my font collection. Just can't remember the name of the typeface. TIA.

Unless I missed somewhere, I'm surprised no one suggested creating a blend of half moon objects and applying that to the path. The blend effect is in the same toolbar flyout at the contour tool. To get the effect right on complex shapes (especially around the corners) you'll sometimes have to...

Unless there is a a lot of text involved it's not a big deal to change lettering that has already been converted to outlines. A lot of my projects hop from CorelDRAW to Illustrator and Photoshop. I usually get more reliable results saving an .AI file from CorelDRAW with the text already...

A long time ago I used to keep all the type editable in my designs. I stopped doing that after several years on the job. For most sign designs I convert the text to outlines once the design is finalized. The project's spec sheet will contain a listing of which specific fonts were used. That's...

We still have a fax machine and a dedicated phone number for it. Fax machines do seem like very obsolete devices that stubbornly refuse to disappear. I feel like they need to go the way of the Pony Express and Morse Code. But there are enough "luddites" who simply got accustomed to using fax...