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It doesn't work the same way on the merge command. The "add," "subtract," "intersect," and "exclude" (as well as "minus back") commands in the Pathfinder palette will not leave behind any duplicate objects in IllustratorCS2. The "divide," "trim," "merge," "crop," and "outline" buttons can...

The newest versions of Illustrator treat Pathfinder operations a bit differently. If you simply select objects and directly apply one of the Pathfinder operations it is applied as a "live" effect. The objects look as though they are welded, but aren't really welded. Selecting the "expand" or...

Hmm. My training. Let's see. I started hand painting signs when I was in junior high back in the mid 1980's. By that time I was already making illustrations for local newspapers. I attended School of Visual Arts in New York City from 1987 to 1991, finishing with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree...

Keep your eye out for bonus CDs that come with magazines like Computer Arts. That particular magazine is a British publication that includes a bonus CD with each issue. The CDs often have free plug-ins, fonts, demo applications and even full versions of older applications. One issue featured a...

Evader, here's a couple more workable solutions: 1. Have the boss actually sit down with the employee and tell him to stop using the company printer for his personal use. 2. Move the printer to a central area where lots of people will see what he is doing. Frankly, I'd just go with #1. I...

Well, ahem, lots of computer viruses will do that. :tongue: Not sure if that's what you want though.

NYC? Or upstate? I lived in NY twice. Once when I was a kid and my father was in the Marines. His public affairs "MOS" allowed him to study photo-journalism at Syracuse University. I lived in NYC for five years, earning my BFA at School of Visual Arts during my time there. By the end of the...

Hi Cressida, welcome to the forum. I notice you're from Colorado Springs. A good deal of my family lives up there (parents, grandmother, aunt & uncle & their kids). Are you studying graphic design in the 'Springs? My advice on marketing one's work: develop a strong portfolio and keep updating...

I use lots of Postscript Type 1 and even Type 1 Multiple Master fonts in Windows XP Pro SP2. Typically these fonts are installed using Adobe Type Manager 4.1 Lite. Normally I have no problems at all using them. But most of these are Adobe distributed fonts that were bundled in various Adobe...

I don't have much to add to what others have posted already, but can offer these observations. Every CNC routing table seems to have its own "personality." A method that works on one may not work exactly as well on another. The best thing to do is keep lots of "drops" (scrap material) around...

It's the old graphic arts saw "garbage in = garbage out." Considering the growth in things like high resolution stock photo houses (such as istockphoto.com) one can find lots of appropriately high resolution images for large format output for not very much money.

The only time I save Illustrator artwork in EPS format is if I intend to place it within a page layout application that may not handle native Illustrator files well, such as QuarkXpress. Most of the time I usually save in different versions of Illustrator. Sometimes I'll save PDFs directly from...

You might want to check out this website: http://www.flashfonts.com/ That's one of Leslie Cabarga's websites, the one where he sells his fonts. Honestly, he is by far one of the best designers of retro looking fonts.

PhotoshopCS2 has a pretty advanced tool for this kind of thing. You can do things to match perspective -and then even clone other things along that plane of perspective.

Letraset Carlon is not an exact match (the R is a bit different), but it is about the closest titling font I can find to equal the sample.

I went to the Las Vegas ISA show last April. There's a decent chance I and a few others from our company will be going to the Orlando expo. It's largely going to depend on what a couple electronic message center companies are going to be doing at the event. If they don't have anything really new...

The situation regarding VMP makes me wonder if there could be more than just financial trouble. Legal trouble may be a distinct possibility. Other companies have been busted for copyright and patent infringement on using pieces of code from other programs. For example, the company Sony/BMG...

And this kind of gets back to my philosophy that anyone who wants to design signs or anything else and expect to charge other people money for that work should kind of already be good at doing the job. Otherwise, why are they even there in the first place? The computer and vinyl cutter isn't...

Although some may insist that CorelDRAW works absolutely perfectly, has no bugs and anyone having technical trouble with the application is obviously imagining things, CDR is indeed one flaky bird. The texture fill bug is real. I have seen it. It is one of several reasons why I believe Corel's...

"Easy to use" and "software for idiots" are both very odd items to apply to graphics software, especially anything that has to work in a business environment like a vinyl sign shop. My experience has been the more professional level tools have actually been easier to use than applications that...