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For font editing, I think it comes down to paying some money to Font Lab. They have the font editing market cornered. Not only do they have their Font Lab application (version 5.1 for Mac, version 5.0.4 for Windows) years ago they bought out the rights to their rival application, Fontographer...

Jeez. That's one ridiculous rifle. It might be useful if you're trying to stop a car attempting to drive through your front door. The ft lbs of force they mentioned, one round might be enough to go through the radiator and crack open the engine block. For stopping home invaders, there's...

Here's a link to the Adobe de-blurring thing, which was sneaked at Adobe MAX 2011: Adobe MAX 2011 - Photoshop Image Deblurring Sneak Unfortunately the open source version is apparently available only for Linux. Windows users have to get the paid versions, now called Xara Photo & Graphic...

I don't see much of any problem at all in saving down to a legacy version of Illustrator. The only way it will be a problem is if the art has some kind of live effect in it that is dependent on the latest version. But I have the habit of flattening/expanding a lot of that stuff so it can be...

Futura Medium

Not meaning to pile on the criticism, but even in terms of just picking two typefaces to make a quick design that one is a pretty odd combination. Hand brushed style lettering like Sarah Script doesn't really go with squared off technical looking typefaces. And Sarah Script sure doesn't work...

I would not take any sort of punitive action against the customer (such as raising prices, etc.) unless the customer really did something to deserve it, such as take your surveys, artwork, etc. to a competitor and let them re-purpose that work and undercut your price. Such a thing is a clear...

One theory I have on why customers think you can just grab it "out of the cloud" and make it with a few button clicks: phony baloney garbage of how computers are portrayed in movies and TV shows. For instance:Let's Enhance This is a great video showing a collection of how Hollywood gets it so...

For multiple reasons we often show those types of walk-in customers the door. 1. they typically don't want to pay for the time & effort required to reproduce their particular vehicle model logo; they only want you to beat or match the price coming from the online providers of such stuff...

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I don't know how many forum members have received this phish in their e-mail boxes in the past, but new phish scams involving Adobe Reader have been hitting e-mail boxes over New Year's weekend. This morning I deleted two e-mails selling "Adobe Reader/Writer 2012." Adobe Reader X is the...

IMHO while it is good to observe what other sign designers are doing, I strongly recommend broadening one's visual horizons well beyond just what is happening with signs. When I was in art school I resisted the suggestions from instructors to visit art galleries and look at a lot of other "fine...

Agency by Font Bureau is a pretty good alternative to Bank Gothic. However, it is more technical looking and not as neutral as Bank Gothic. Serpentine Sans might be another possibility.

When the customer goes into control freak mode and turns you into little more than a button pushing monkey you just have to emotionally detach yourself from the project and just get it done. At least that's what I do after a couple revisions. Putting in my own 2¢ about the sample design, I...

It sounds to me like your printer may need a service call. Just to cross out a couple possibilities make sure your have the latest version of VersaWorks running and have the latest firmware for your printer. New printers may not necessarily be bundled with the latest firmware and software.

IMHO, it's pretty critical to wrap a vehicle in an enclosed area with temperature control. In order to wrap a vehicle correctly the installer(s) must prep the vehicle carefully, removing any dirt, wax or grease that may still be left on the surface. If the vehicle remains outdoors the wind...

Movie makers alter the brightness and color to make things more moody. Since most movies are now post-produced using "digital intermediate" methods the temptation is very strong on doing all sorts of wacky things with color and contrast. In the 1990s and earlier, most movies were "color timed"...

Roland VersaWorks is pretty finicky about what kind of Illustrator-generated .EPS files it will bring and do print & cut operations successfully. .PDF definitely works a lot better than .EPS for transparent items, floated raster-based elements from Photoshop, etc. OTOH, when you have a lot of...

Actually it looks like Baskerville to me, possibly one of the old Baskerville "BE" fonts Adobe used to bundle with certain versions of Illustrator and PageMaker.

Most new computers can run Adobe Photoshop Extended without much of a problem as long as the user isn't going crazy designing massive images weighing multiple gigabytes. The customer does have to spend a bit above "mid range" if he wants a desktop or notebook that will still run new...