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Erin, The best thing you can do is break apart the complex paths into separate objects and then manually combine the proper objects. You may have to use the reverse path direction button to fix some of those "holes" that show up solid. On top of that, you'll likely have to fix a lot of odd-ball...

Adeanh, if you're willing you can try out Inkscape. http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape is a free, open source vector graphics drawing program. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of a full blown professional drawing program like Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW. But you can at least get...

Time-O-Matic makes a pretty decent product. Their booth at last April's ISA show wasn't as impressive as the Daktronics booth, but still they're a decent company. Just make sure you don't have other competitors in your area who may underbid you and give the message center away at cost. I don't...

You need to use the path outline function in Flexi. Other drawing programs have the same kind of effect. In CorelDRAW you use the countour function. In Illustrator you can use Offset Path or Outline to get the effect. The auto-tracing method in Photoshop is just used to get the basic vector...

No problem. BTW, when it comes to saving the vector artwork you create in Photoshop you go about it in a different manner than just doing the File>Save thing. Go to File>Export>Paths to Illustrator. That will allow you to export the paths created in Illustrator 1.0 .AI format. No need to get...

FWIW, those who bought Adobe PageMaker 6.5 a few years ago would have netted the Giovanni family. It was part of the "Collection 220" series of fonts Adobe would bundle in with certain application upgrades.

CASmate 6.52 had a patch which provided WindowsNT 4.0 compatibility. Overall, the program was a hodge podge of 16-bit and 32-bit code libraries. I think some of that same code survives in current versions of Flexi. CASmate will not operate under WindowsXP (if it does, I would be surprised)...

Ah. Sounds like the good old Flexi 6.6 curse. Yep, it usually will not run on WindowsXP. Gotta have 7.

When doing a Flexi 7.x install you need three items to enter: 1. the number off the dongle (and the dongle must be attached to the machine). 2. the serial number printed on the box (typically 7 digits). 3. the password printed on the box: (typically 20 alphanumeric characters separated by...

There's definitely something funky going on with WinXP Pro SP2 and its networking support. The last two computers we bought for our studio (both dual core Dell models) had issues with seeing other computers on the network. They were able to get on the Internet fine. We had to play around with...

Firefox 1.5 added a lot of improvements "under the hood" to further improve security. On the visible end, you can shuffle around and re-order web page tabs. It is now easier to wipe out cookies, cached web pages and personal data. Just go to the Tools menu and select "Clear Private Data" or just...

New software releases are making the issue of font management even more complicated. Take Adobe Creative Suite for instance. You get a little over 200 OpenType fonts (including 36 Asian font weights up to 14MB in size) with the package. Oddly, all of them wind up being installed when you...

The current version, Flexi 7.6 works only with Mac OSX 10.2 or later. The PC version requires Win2000 or WinXP. I'm not quite sure about it, but I think Flexi 7.x was the first one compiled for OSX compatibility.

I've seen Corel go wacky with fonts that weren't well encoded. Many fonts from free font sites will often have problems. Lots of people trade fonts online and convert them using questionable methods to jump platforms from Mac to PC or PC to Mac. The resulting errors can make a font go haywire...

I'll also put in a recommendation for people to use Mozilla Thunderbird for e-mail instead of Outlook Express. Like Firefox, Thunderbird doesn't allow a lot of risky technologies by default. It has its own built-in spam filter too. In addition to using Thunderbird (or even if you don't want to...

If you are using Firefox to do web browsing, quite naturally you should not block it -otherwise you wouldn't be able to view any web pages on the Internet. Get rid of Firefox? No. The thing to do is immediately stop using Internet Explorer (as well as the Outlook Express e-mail program)...

The Letterhead Fonts site tutorial is pretty decent. The method I use is quite a bit more anal retentive, but the results are usually mathematically perfect. The difference is in how the path down the center of the stroke is established. I break sections of the letter apart into separate line...

The inner bevel plug ins for Photoshop (including those made by Adobe and all the other third party filters including Alien Skin) don't really create a truly accurate chisel effect. The effect goes a bit haywire at corners and areas where two strokes join. You can't get the chisel to corner...

The "pricing stinks" part that I mentioned referred to what owners of multiple Adobe app licenses had to pay to upgrade versus someone who only owned Photoshop. Adobe had that pricing policy when they first introduced the Creative Suite 1 package. I had previous full versions of Photoshop...

So basically, the plain English version is you think you're entitled to using commercial software for free while collecting a paycheck from the sign industry. You could have put it that way rather than writing a series of paragraphs in a stilted and rather zany form. Congratulations, you're a...