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To make matters worse, Adobe has removed File>Open/Import support for Freehand .FH files in Illustrator CS6. CorelDRAW can import Freehand files, but the import quality can be hit or miss at times.

Obviously not every music celebrity who dies does so by way of substance abuse. Adam "MCA" Yauch had been battling cancer for the past 3 years. It started in one of his salivary glands. Movie critic Roger Ebert had something similar; he survived but the cancer took his lower jaw and he has...

Adobe Photoshop CS6 will have auto-save capability, but I don't know if that is also being built into Adobe Illustrator CS6. AI CS6 has been re-written into 64-bit code and also has that Mercury Graphics Engine GPU-assisted thing to make it run faster and more stable. The added stability...

Adobe Creative Suite 6 is now available directly from Adobe. I'm not sure how long it will take for software re-sellers to stock up with the disc-based packages. The Creative Cloud service is supposed to go live on Friday, May 11.

There's a lot of people who can code web sites with Notepad who have no real talent or expertise at graphic design. Yet many pass themselves off as if they're professional graphic designers. Then guys like me get to fix the "art" they generate when the customer needs a sign using some of the...

Some of it depends on how big a target you are for legal action. A fly by night gypsy vinyl cutter/printer dude at a flea market isn't much of a target at all unless the victimized companies have a reliable way of tracking down and dealing with the dude. Our company is pretty big, has been...

At the risk of angering some people: Coding is not design. That's programming. And there's a lot of commercial web sites that have lots of streamlined, pimped out code, but look awful. There's this constant refrain of "separating content from design." Often in the end the result is not having...

I've seen various technology columnists and even people in the mainstream press ask why social networks are getting to be so popular with businesses? Here's one answer: it is A LOT EASIER and FASTER to update a business Facebook page than it is to update a web site. Visitors are often going to...

I've lost about 15 pounds since the beginning of the year just by cutting some junk food out of the diet. I love Taco Flavored Doritos™ but the empty carbs just add sludge on the mid-section. Downside: a little bit of muscle mass lost. Can't bench press quite what I could back in December...

Um, yeah. I was going to say something about overestimation and AV products trying to head fake web sites. Lots of people are still using computers that run Windows XP. Many of those users often use Internet Explorer, even older versions of it. They can't even install IE9 on such machines (and...

Even most "code monkeys" don't know how to deal with a direct intrusion into a web site. Typically the hosting service has to get involved. Most sign web sites aren't going to be a worthwhile target of hackers in the first place, unless the sign web site has online store functions that can be...

It sounds to me like the CorelDRAW file had badly imported artwork brought in from things like PDFs created for smallest file size and Illustrator editing capability eliminated. I've grabbed logos out of various PDFs created with InDesign, Illustrator or other applications. PDFs created for...

I could turn out to be wrong, but I think Adobe's strategy of placing severe restrictions on upgrade eligibility (their cloud and 1 version back only for discs) is going to backfire on them pretty bad. Adobe will drag along the users who can most afford to upgrade every single time. I think...

When the cumulative cost of that monthly fee is added up over a 12, 18 or 24 month time span it actually costs more than a perpetual license upgrade -particularly upgrades of suites that don't include every app in the Master Collection. Essentially Adobe is forcing existing customers to buy...

Corel Photo-Paint is better than nothing, but it isn't equivalent to Photoshop. It isn't even Corel's best image editing application (that title belongs to Painter, formerly from Fractal Design). IMHO, Corel is needlessly duplicating efforts by having 3 image editing apps in its arsenal (Paint...

Fundamentally I think the subscribe forever model is flawed because Adobe wouldn't get any punishment in terms of bad sales for releasing a crappy version of an application or suite. Likewise they would get no greater reward from existing customers for issuing an outstanding must-have release...

I don't think any fonts exist in a standard format (TTF, T1, OTF) that feature single, open path lines. A long time ago I used Neon Wizard, which featured some proprietary single stroke "neon" fonts. But it wasn't a very user friendly application and the guys who actually make our neon always...

I'll probably order the physical discs. $525 to upgrade from the Master Collection CS5.5 to CS6 isn't too bad. I prefer having DVDs at the ready in case I need to do something like perform a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate and reinstall applications. It would be a giant pain to download well...

I didn't see Soundbooth listed as a CS6 application. I looked in both the Master Collection upgrade details as well as the app listing for Creative Cloud. I got Soundbooth as part of the CS4 Production Premium suite. Soundbooth was not included in the CS5.5 Master Collection suite; Audition...

Ugh. Another CorelDRAW vs. Adobe Illustrator thread -with many of the same very generalized statements. I see so many of the "there's not a thing program X can do that program Y cannot" claims. And that's pure baloney when one bothers to get down to specific differences between each app...