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I've made a couple of them in the past, just to show examples of the type families we use most often and some differences in font categories (serif, sans serif, etc.). Such things are best kept simple. If a customer doesn't like some of the basic choices we'll whip out a CorelDRAW book showing...

I'm running the standard default workspace present upon installing X7. As with past versions of CorelDRAW I have to add some additional commands to the tool bars, like one-shot zoom, toggle enhanced & wireframe views, etc. That's good to know. I wonder if Corel's engineers even know about...

I see some of the same questions asked there, with hardly any real answers. When saving artwork in CorelDRAW X7 down to an earlier version (even when the artwork opened was created in an earlier version of CorelDRAW) you'll see a dialog box giving you choices to preserve appearance or keep the...

No responses so far? Another hugely annoying thing: various commands in the X7 user interface have been re-arranged and some very standard items have been deleted from tool bars and menus. What are the folks at Corel thinking? Are they trying to sort of copy the tool and command layout from...

For the past couple or so years I've been using CorelDRAW X5 and X6 between home and work. I recently installed a trial version of CorelDRAW X7 on my notebook at home, just after doing a factory reset to clear out some garbage that occurred from a recent series of "not ready for prime time"...

I use a slightly different method than one described at the Letterhead fonts page to create prismatic effects in letters. It's a little more complicated, but works well on curved letters. In CorelDRAW, I use the blend function to create the center line on the letter. First I break open the...

This is one of the fundamental reasons why I have run both CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator alongside each other for many years. The differences between the two programs and how they handle gradient effects has only worsened in recent years. CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator apparently use...

This morning I've been having a tough time getting my Creative Cloud control panel to connect with Adobe's servers. See the attached images of what I've been seeing this morning. Adobe's web site hasn't been performing much better. I couldn't get anywhere in it up until a few minutes ago. Now I...

Some of the previous versions of Flexi we bought had many of those old CAS fonts (which we used in CASmate) remastered into TrueType format. The fonts were okay, but the kerning in many of them was pretty bad. They're still nice to have for matching up fonts with really old projects, but that's...

Thanks! I'm glad I picked that type family as one of the bonus options way back with one of those Creative Suite upgrades (CS2 if I recall correctly).

I've complained and made suggestions to both Adobe and Corel about this particular subject since the 1990's. Honestly, I see no legitimate reason why Adobe and Corel can't include an option for sizing type objects according to cap height. Sign making applications like Flexi aren't doing...

It's like the subject line says. A customer gave us a logo, in vector format no less. They want us to use the same typeface on a bunch of other stuff. The trouble is I can't figure out for certain the identity of the typeface. See the attached sample of some letters from the logo. It looks...

I had to perform a couple different updates on my desktop PC running Win 8 Pro in order to run some of the Adobe CC 2014 applications properly, including Illustrator CC 2014. First of all Windows itself needs to be up to date in terms of patches. I updated my video card driver -which seemed to...

Adobe Illustrator is pretty frustrating to use in terms of sizing and positioning letters in terms of capital heights, like 1" tall letters. Adobe Illustrator is not geared for this. It only sizes type according to the size of the invisible em square, not the capital height of the letters. Very...

Thanks, Fred. I knew the typeface was something I had (in this case, fonts bundled in with CorelDRAW). I tried the "What the Font" utility at MyFonts, but it was coming up empty-handed -probably thanks in large part to whoever created the sample art I posted here. They squeezed and stretched...

Hi All, The typeface used in the attached sample looks very familiar (in fact, I'm almost positive it's something I already have), but I just can't seem to figure out the typeface ID for it. TIA.

I see a LOT of customer provided vector art files that are not "vinyl cutter ready" at all. It's pretty common to get files that have the same letters or other paths duplicated on top of each other numerous times. Pen tool strokes do this a lot. The path offset tool is far better for outlining...

Piggybacking onto this thread, I've had some serious system crashes using CorelDRAW X6 on my Win 8 Pro system the last couple of days. I'd be working and then all of a sudden the system would hang completely. Even Ctrl-Alt-Delete didn't work. I'd just have to hold down the power button and...

Anyone dependent on any plug-in/bridge software that runs inside CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop or any other program like that strongly resist the urge to immediately jump on any upgrades to the latest versions. All too often the latest versions will "break" many plug-ins. And...

That only works to a certain degree. While CorelDRAW X6 can import Adobe Illustrator AI & EPS art files up to version CS5 it is prone to goofing up things like gradient fills. The funny thing is Adobe Illustrator is prone to doing the same thing when opening CorelDRAW .CDR files or...