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Modern Adobe Illustrator files should not have objects with "expanded" gradient fills like the example in the top post of this thread. Illustrator files made correctly will not have clipping masked groups of many hundreds of slivers of solid filled objects pretending to be a gradient fill...

I have a better idea, one that will give you precise results. Make two rectangles. Make one of them 8" wide and the other one 15" wide. Spread both along the height you need. Make a third rectangle the desired height you want and align the first two rectangles to the top and bottom of that 3rd...

This was a fresh install of X5 on a new Dell PC with Windows 8 loaded. The installer wouldn't even run. It would get blocked with a dialog box saying that version of CorelDRAW was incompatible and that a newer version (X6) was available that would work. So I had to buy an upgrade. We had older...

I did a quick search and found Soundbooth was in CS5, but that's where it ended. Audition returned in the CS5.5 suite and has been there ever since. Audition had been in the CS1 and CS2 suites. Soundbooth was in CS3, CS4 and CS5. Old CS software often doesn't work well with new operating...

Tim99, are you running Creative Suite 4 version applications? I ask that because of the mention of Soundbooth. Years ago I ran a CS4 Production Premium suite license on my work computer; it came with Soundbooth. When I upgraded my personal CS license to Master Collection CS5.5 that had Audition...

We have a Roland 54" printer. You can get the IP address of the printer directly from its command menu on the front of the printer. Scroll down to the System Info category, choose Network and it should list the IP address in there.

Figured out a solution! The RS-232 connection wasn't the problem. It was the plotter/cutter's command language setting. It was set to "auto." We changed it to HPGL and now it's working properly and accepting the cut condition commands from Flexi.

BUMP So we "punted" -ended up ordering an upgrade to Flexi 12, which was fairly expensive. I'm still having problems trying to get this new Graphtec 8600-75 to work correctly. Flexi 12 has a driver for that cutter/plotter. But it refuses to work properly; everything is cutting at a speed of 50...

I went the reverse route learning CorelDRAW first and then Illustrator. I bought my first personal copy of Photoshop (v2.5) bundled with Illustrator 4. There were things I wanted to do with paths in Photoshop, like importing Corel-generated vectors. CorelDRAW has never been able to directly...

This is one of the reasons why I have been using both CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator for over 20 years. In recent years both applications have been introducing more and more application-dependent special effects that do not translate well to other programs outside the original application. Even...

Our shop is replacing a pretty old (and now malfunctioning) Graphtec vinyl cutter/plotter we bought about 15 years ago with a new Graphtec FC8600-75 unit. The host computer that drives the vinyl cutter/plotter is a PC running Windows 7 and Flexi 7.6v2. Has any participants in this forum worked...

If you're trying to get a rope like effect wrapping around an oval I think the best approach would be by using Corel's blend tools. You can attach a blend from one source object to another along the length of a path and have those objects rotate with the path. Sometimes this works pretty well...

CorelDRAW is better than Flexi in some ways, but it is inferior to Flexi in other ways. The same thing goes for any CorelDRAW vs. Adobe Illustrator comparisons. They all have their own strengths and weaknesses -weaknesses that make it necessary for me to use some other software to get a specific...

I've been using CorelDRAW for over 20 years. I think it's a must-have program for sign shops. But I'm not going to cheer-lead for it. Some releases have been better than others. One of my biggest gripes with CorelDRAW X7 is that it can be unpredictable in how it handles editable text objects...

We use CorelDRAW, Flexi and Adobe Creative Cloud in my workplace. I have many years of experience using them all. They all have their unique advantages and disadvantages. For working on projects with artwork at full size levels and sending artwork to computerized routing tables Flexi is vastly...

Most people are very familiar with variations of the Dolby logo. I attached a copy of the original "Dolby System" logo from the 1970's. I'm trying to figure out specifically what typeface was used for the lettering above and below the logo, "Making Films Sound Better" and "Noise Reduction • High...

That's not a solution to the problem. Illustrator users cannot manually re-size an area type box to accurately match the cap height of a letter. The box might be fairly close in size, but it will not be exact. And it always has to be just a tad bit bigger than the capital letter otherwise the...

"CAS"-type sign making applications have been able to size lettering according to cap letter height for well over 20 years. I started out in sign making using an MS-DOS based version of CASmate and CorelDRAW 3.0 running in Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Even way back then CASmate allowed me to...

I attached an image which I also shared in a similar discussion at the Adobe Illustrator feature request forum at Adobe's web site: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1709269 I invite any forum users here who care about this design limitation to speak their minds in Adobe's forum. Maybe if there is...

Adobe Illustrator is not able to vertically center editable text accurately. It would need to be able to align lettering based on its cap letter height in order to do the alignment correctly. Adobe Illustrator has never been able to do this and CorelDRAW can only do it within some serious...