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I have the Premium version of CS2. The Standard version does not come with any version of GoLive or Acrobat. DreamweaverMX is my main choice for editing websites, but GoLive has some handy features. Its visual CSS tools are pretty nice for developing Cascading Style Sheets and managing a good...

Karen, What application are you going to use to place the Photoshop image? As RobGF said, the best way to knock out a white background from a bitmapped image is by using a clipping path. However, support of clipping paths is pretty spotty from one application to the next. Page layout...

No. Don't do that. The "Shane's Rib Shack" sample was an Adobe Acrobat PDF file containing 100% vector-based artwork. There is no need to trace anything. However it would be better to open the artwork within a newer version of Adobe Illustrator to fix the problems with the outline effects on...

There's a few different fonts in the Corel12 package, including a few Korean double byte Unicode format fonts. They actually came in handy for me on a sign job for a Korean Restaurant (them and the Adobe Song font that comes with Illustrator CS2). Generally, I very much prefer the retail boxes...

Fred, that's a real easy problem to fix. When CorelDRAW exports artwork in AI format it defaults to simulating combined objects by slicing them. This default sticks regardless of what version you choose to export, even though this is only done for compatibility with the earliest versions of...

Unfortunately, you get what you pay for. In terms of sign making software, the expensive applications like Flexi or SignLab justify their price by how much better they work than their cheaper counterparts like Vinyl Master Pro or a CoCut plug-in. The same analogy works for mainstream graphics...

I meant to reply about this a few months ago. While Corel does have it own bugs, I don't think it does a bad job exporting logos in EPS. I generally prefer its EPS output compared to AI export. The program only tends to run into trouble when trying to export Corel-dependent effects to other...

You might want to wait at least a few months before doing that -especialliy if you don't already own any Mac-based software. Apple will begin transitioning its entire product line away from PowerPC processors and over to Intel chips. Many in the computer industry are predicting Apple's...

The font looks a bit like Letraset Laser -but with a few key changes. My guess is the script started out as hand lettered glyphs, was scanned into digital form and then manually digitized. I've made a good number of logotypes using hand-drawn and vectorized letters -rather than using "OPF."...

Beware that Bitstream's version of Univers (Zurich) is drawn just a tad differently from the version of Univers in Adobe's type library. Other slight differences occur in Bitstream's version of other font families, check Square 721 versus Eurostile somtime. That might matter if you have to...

I have to disagree with you on the similarity to Trajan. The Kingdom of Heaven type face has a more close visual relationship with a sharp serifed Latin font like Trump Mediaeval than anything like Trajan. I've seen the font somewhere before, but My Font's "what the font?" utility and Identifont...

Seriously though, does anyone have an idea of what that font may be. It certainly isn't Trajan -although it's kind of a miracle in and of itself that Trajan didn't get used.

I'm trying to recall the identity of this font, but it escapes me. I was watching a 720p HD quality Quicktime file of the movie trailer (downloaded from Apple's Quicktime HD Gallery) and just found myself wondering, "what in the world is that typeface?"

Inspire was distributed by Scanvec as a successor to CASmate. Inspire went through only a couple releases before the Scanvec-Amiable merger. I can't remember exactly why we chose not to move from CASmate to Inspire in the late 1990s. It could have been the price or something else. We stuck with...

In version 9 you can delete guides by dragging them off the screen or just clicking on them and hitting the delete key. The funny thing is CorelDRAW (both versions 9 and 12) seems to be the only application that crashes on the three systems I've tried. What version of Windows are you using...

Yeah, the new behavior with guides can be a pain. I was used to deleting them by dragging them off to the side or top into the ruler areas. But I also just click on them and hit the delete key as well. I'm not sure if the behavior has anything to do with the "dynamic guides" feature of...

Kai's Power Tools, the plug-in package for Photoshop was the first Kai's filter package (released in the early 1990s by HSC). Successive versions of Kai's Power Tools have been released since then when the Kai products changed hands from HSC to MetaTools, MetaCreations (the merger between...

FWIW, many of the kinds of effects featured in KPT Vector Effects (such as 3D effects, warping effects, etc.) are standard features within Illustrator CS2. What version of Fireworks are you using? I have FWMX, and it doesn't have all the vector-based 3D extruding and beveling features (along...

That's still a legal dodge. Also beware of lots of academic software. Many cannot be upgraded using normal retail packages. Not sure if Corel falls into that category. Regardless, I'd rather pay $129 for a legit Corel12 upgrade and get all the discs, fonts, manuals and eligibility for technical...

I really like Adobe Illustrator CS2. There are a few items it still lacks that I'm used to using in applications like CorelDRAW and Flexi. But there is a good number of areas where Illustrator has key advantages over CorelDRAW. Here's a few key examples: Illustrator integrates with Adobe...