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Yes, the whole "Mactel" thing is another tough dilema. Complicate it even further with the need to shift everything to 64-bit code. The different painful jumps on the horizon have me wanting to just get enough of what I need in terms of software to get by for at least 2 to 4 years. My hope is...

If you don't want to make it any of my business or anyone else's, don't brag about how you're going to reverse engineer copywrited software on a public forum. If I were going to do such a thing I sure as hell wouldn't tell anyone about it, especially in a 'blog. And I also know for a fact you...

The aquisition of Macromedia is another thing that may get me peeved at Adobe. Right now I have a dilema to consider. Do I pay $399 by Dec. 31 to upgrade my current StudioMX license to Studio 8? Or do I wait to see how much the price increases Jan. 1, 2006? Or do I wait to see how Studio 8 is...

Maybe I'm missing something. But if you're producing custom arcade controllers you're probably going to need a different logo printing method than just applying vinyl to the product. I can picture how users could wear away the vinyl in little time. High performance vinyl graphics can last at...

Okay, its another round of the professional sign makers, versus "hobbyists" and amateurs discussion. So I'll just paste in a good magnum opus post. :Big Laugh Here's my stand: I make no secret about my feelings on the subject. Sign making is a profession. It demands real artistic talent...

It doesn't matter how crisp an image you post. It's still going to have those unwanted curves and divits at every stroke junction. Look at the "T" in waverunner's attached sample. The centerline doesn't divit at the stroke contour compared to the "T" in your sample.

The SignLab filter suffers from the same problems that affect all other beveling filters. To pick apart the .BMP file uploaded, take a look at where the strokes join. On the letter "T" there are undesirable curves happening to the centerline where the vertical stem joins the top horizontal bar...

I don't think I would characterize the chiseling process as being "easy." It's not really very difficult at all. But the procedure does require the user to have a decent amount of familiarity with CorelDRAW. The foundation of it is good knowledge of the shape tool, path segments and...

There's actually not very many chiseled fonts out there that look decent, IMHO. There's a couple Letterhead LHF fonts that look good. But outside of that your choices are very slim. I don't think it takes all that long to create the chiseled effect, provided you choose a base typeface that...

The base font is Compacta Black (a widely available font; anyone with a copy of CorelDRAW or Flexi is going to have it). The chisel effect is another matter. There is no effect filter in any drawing program anywhere that honestly does a good job in simulating a "prismatic" or "chisel" effect...

RAID 1 will provide fault tolerance against one hard drive failure. The only downside is your disc write performance can be slowed down a bit since all data is being simultaneously mirrored on two hard discs. I wouldn't recommend doing something like capturing MiniDV footage to hard discs in...

You don't have to get RAID. In fact, SATA RAID can be a fairly risky thing. The connectors in the SATA standard are a bit suspect and drive failures have occured over this. Lots of gamers and other power users will commonly employ use of a RAID 0 scheme where two drives essentially become one...

There are numerous benefits to running a machine with either a dual core processor or one that has two physically separate symmetric CPUs. The main benefit is big speed increases in applications written in multi-threaded form. Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular multiprocessor enabled...

That's probably fine then, considering the type of competition serving that area. In our market, we have lots and lots of people trying to jump into the sign business thinking it will be a quick way to make money. Many of those guys are running their sign business as an offshoot from other...

Are you just making signs for in store use? Or is your computer store positioning itself to compete with other sign companies? If the latter is the case, I don't mind if you take out some fly by night cheapie guys with better quality work (but may wind up losing money and lots of time chasing...

As long as the issue of security is being raised, I'm going to list a few things that may be a bit unpopular: 1. The overall fault in Windows' security does not rest completely with Microsoft and Windows operating system. 2. Many users have only themselves to blame for getting their Windows PC...

What is the nature of the object being distorted? Is it something loaded with lots of anchor points, such as "antiqued" lettering? Also, what kind of computer hardware is being used, how much RAM, etc.? Certain vector distortion operations can demand a lot of floating point performance.

Normally I'm pretty good with indentifying fonts, even those imitations of hand brush lettering. This one has me stumped. I'm sure I've seen it before; I just can't remember it. It isn't Arab Brushstroke, Impress, Impuls or Parade. TIA.

Sometimes I'll copy the technique used by a number of stock photo companies and have a repeating pattern of the company name going across the entire image. You can make the pattern very transparant, yet still noticeable. Some firms do a kind of embossed effect or glass like effect. The customer...

I skipped Illustrator 10. Does it not have the "expand" options under the Object menu? That's what I use for converting outline strokes into editable paths within IllustratorCS2, even though the Outline Stroke command is still there.