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The Illustrator 8 legacy file export filter in IllustratorCS2 can often wind up writing files that don't read properly in many applications. Often you'll have to save down to legacy Illustrator 3 format. For example, CorelDRAW 9 usually had little trouble reading an Illustrator 8 file if it was...

Hold on with the silly Brands of the World nonsense, please. BOTW often has logos of suspect quality. User beware. In the case of AutoNation, it took me only a few clicks to find official corporate artwork, in EPS format, right on the AutoNation website...

You can still run into problems converting .EPS files to .PDF with Distiller if your copy of Acrobat is an older version.

Corel's "enhanced" view has been a feature of the program since CorelDRAW 7 was released. That's when Corel started grafting a lot of code from Xara directly into Corel. Illustrator's anti-aliased view was a response to Macromedia incorporating Flash Anti-Alias View into Freehand years ago...

Another possible bug (perhaps remotely possible) is the use of odd forms of Asian type in the .eps files. But yeah, you'll have to watch for bozos dropping JPEG images into drawing applications and saving as .EPS. I'll see that from time to time with CorelDRAW files. Sometimes that occurs after...

Bottlenecks, basically. If you run a shop that has a number of design stations, but only one running a certain application then the potential rises for that to turn into a bottleneck. It will really happen if that one application is critical for getting a lot of stuff done. We have three Flexi...

I suppose if you have other employees using Gerber Omega and SignLab then it might make the purchase worth it. Otherwise spending several grand for those two applications just to have them sit on the shelf would be pretty crazy. I would also be careful about file management problems...

Colin is referring to the "elastic" mode that applications like Corel and Illustrator will allow, depending on which tool is selected (such as the shape tool in CorelDRAW or the direct selection tool in Illustrator). One can use the tool to grab the path and push or pull it around. Flexi has...

I'm not really concerned with computer hardware speed comparisons between Mac and Windows-based machines. Expensive high end hardware will allow you to perform tasks faster. In terms of actual design work, most tasks are possible with many kinds of computer hardware and in many price ranges...

Specifically, what "high end" design tasks can a Mac do that a PC cannot? I only ask that because I think such statements like "you can't come close to a Mac when it comes to design" is platform religion baloney.

Many of the logos on Brands of the World are stinky attempts at re-creation. I'd try scouring the web for PDFs that might have the "Always" mark, or just get a sharp quality print of it to scan and auto-trace. If you're doing legit work for Wal-Mart they may be able to get you the art you need...

Fred, is the iMac able to see the other Win98 and WinXP machines? If so, then there may be an issue with how the external Maxtor drive is formatted. It's just a spitball guess, but I think NTFS formatted hard drives drives tend to connect better to other operating systems than anything...

I doubt if it's even Copperplate. I have several different versions of the font family. The one Adobe distributes and the versions distributed by Bitstream and URW are the most common. They don't match up with that sample at all. It may be some odd-ball freebie font that attempts to copy...

The font is Latin Wide. You should be able to find it on a CorelDRAW disc. Be advised, the type in your sample has been squeeeeeezed. Font murder rears its ugly head again. :tongue:

After 15 years of using CorelDRAW, I have learned many workarounds through various releases of the product. Over the past few years I find the overall quality of the program has declined. Newer versions may have more features, but more and more bugs have also come along for the ride. IMHO...

Techman, the default CorelDRAW 12 install is 20 levels of undo; already under 25 (and well under the 99 levels default I saw in CorelDRAW 9). Messing around with page zooms doesn't seem to do anything once that Corel A.R.M. thing rears its ugly head. The only choice is to shut down everything...

I have found CorelDRAW 12 to be pretty buggy. The GIF image I attached is an error message that I can bring up at will on a variety of computers I have tested, which includes Dell and non-Dell branded desktops and notebooks. So please, no one hand me the "it's probably just your machine" line...

Yep, you do have to be careful about some of the sign making software titles. Industry-specific software has much smaller user bases, higher prices and arguably less accountability for bugs. That's one of the reasons why lots of designers do as much of their work in mainstream graphics...

On Live Trace and Live Paint, I'm not sure really what they mean by "not having to worry about closed paths." Perhaps that might mean something if all you're doing with vector artwork is printing it. Some of the behaviors of Live Paint and Live Trace has similar results to past versions of...

Again, there is no chance Dreamweaver will be discontinued. GoLive will be the app that gets the axe. Adobe purchased Macromedia primarily as a means of securing its market space (and making sure someone else didn't aquire Macromedia first). Lots of market consolidation is happening. Autodesk...