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Both of the fonts used in the sample are from the ITC Leawood family. ("leakwood" was close)

Others will have their own "recipes" but here's mine, it seems complicated, but the few clicks can be done in a matter of a few seconds. First, make a "work path" out of your text layer (go to the layer menu, select "text" and choose "make work path" on the flyout menu). This should make a...

Looks like a modified version of ITC Kabel (bold or ultra) to me. Obviously the "S" is different, and some other non-standard oddities are visible in the sample. My hunch is this lettering was hand-created/modified, either in the computer or put down on the finished sample.

WinXP Pro x64 edition will gain you nothing in dealing with items like huge Photoshop files. First, absolutely none of Adobe's applications are compiled for 64-bit operation. Not even on the Mac platform. They're all 32-bit. Adobe Photoshop supports a "normal" maximum support of 2GB of RAM for...

I have a 12" X 12" Wacom tablet on my home desktop computer. Never had any conflicts between it and other attached pointing devices. That same computer has a Logitech optical mouse attached as well as a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro gaming joystick. Graphics tablets don't work very well games. Hehe.

Agreed. I simply got into the habit of converting all type to outlines once I was satisfied with the layout. As long as standard sizing is applied (making letters in round dimensions like 1", 1 1/2", etc. instead of eyeballing it to something like .9857") it is relatively easy to go back and...

Adobe's tryout page is here: http://www.adobe.com/products/tryadobe/main.jsp#product=27 Scroll down the IllustratorCS2 link. The Live Trace and Live Paint features in Illustrator are powerful. However, they are only going to work so well based on the quality of raster images you throw at those...

I think Windings 2 is a standard MS Windows/Office font, isn't it? CorelDRAW sometimes puts its symbol fonts into a separate "symbols" fonts folder rather than putting them into the letter folders on the CD. Check for the font in that symbols folder. If you can't find it there, just go into the...

Fonts have only so many nodes, regardless of what application is using them. Corel doesn't "add" any more nodes to fonts than Illustrator does. The fonts only hold the number of nodes used to originally design them. There are some minor differences in how Postscript Type 1 fonts are generated...

I forgot about the Gerber fonts. But I think those are based on the same 1977 designs as those sold by Page Studio Graphics. They look better than the ones on the Flexi font CD (those just have to go). I'm waiting for some word back for more details from DGI Traffic regarding their Series 2000...

Hmm, I don't really agree with that all the way. First, CorelDRAW is a lot more common in sign shops than Adobe Illustrator. Most sign shops are PC-based. And Corel was the best choice for drawing programs for Windows throughout much of the 1990s. Adobe stuck Windows users with the stinky...

Herculanum, by Linotype. I could have sworn Adobe sells this.

Yeah, I've noticed the increasing trend of mainstream computer manufacturers to just put the OS "install disc" on the computer's hard drive and not ship any CDs with the system. Dell is even doing this on some of their product lines. You have to go in and make sure you have that OS disc thing...

I'm considering updating the Highway Gothic fonts I have with newer, more authentic versions. I would prefer the exact version of Series 2000 Gothic used in the 2003 MUTCD pdf manuals. It would be nice to be able to open up a page of the SHS pdf book in Illustrator and not have the type get...

Perhaps...and perhaps not. I will only deal a local custom computer builder on certain conditions. Often local builders will use cheapest odd ball components they can find. Many want to argue about how you don't really need that one component or feature they can't provide. There's usually too...

Fred's solution is the simplest, and most logical offered thus far. Stacy, you just create a vector shape around the area of the image you want to isolate. Select your bitmap image, go to the Effects menu and select Powerclip. On the Powerclip flyout menu choose "place inside container." By...

As cheap as RAM has become, 2GB should really be your starting point. Go with 4GB if you can afford it. For example, Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium apps ran okay on my notebook with 1GB of RAM. When I maxed it out at 2GB of 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM there was a big speed improvement, especially with...

Wasn't there another thread along the lines of this subject not too long ago? Oh well. Our shop is fairly roomy for just over 20 employees (I've lost count; we hired an additional neon artist last week). The main shop is over 15,000 sq.ft. and most of the metal work happens there. We also park...

Arial is somewhat similar to Helvetica -at least in terms of the tracking and line spacing. However, Arial seems more like a mish-mash of other sans styles. Honestly if you put the two fonts next to each other and examine them character by character, Arial is very different. Mark Simonson has a...

If you're trying to get Illustrator artwork into Flexi you must use one of two options. 1. Save the file in a legacy native Illustrator .AI format Flexi will open. That especially goes for saving in Illustrator EPS format. 2. Save the CS1 or CS2 file with PDF compatibility turned on. Usually...