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Corel had a $99 competitive upgrade offer on CorelDRAW 12 for registered users of Macromedia Freehand. This was a marketing response to Macromedia's exclusion of an upgrade of Freehand (exclusion of FH altogether really) in the new Macromedia Studio8 suite. That offer has since expired. The...

Here's a bit of a head-scratcher for those into font ID riddles. I received this pretty low quality sample from a business card, via fax, from a customer today. Having a bit of trouble figuring out the ID of the font. Obviously the script has been very horribly squeezed. Pretty inhumane act of...

Just visit websites like publish.com or wide-formatimaging.com. Regarding CorelDRAW, I've never considered it to be a dominant player in terms of large format digital printing for a variety of reasons. For one thing, Corel's own color control engine leaves a lot to be desired. I'll build up a...

The latest development on the "Mactel" front is Apple getting quite ornery toward a number of Mac-enthusiast websites. Apple ordered them to take down photos and video showing the Intel-based MacOSX developer kit software running on plain vanilla Intel based PCs. Apparently it didn't take much...

We have 5 desktop machines and a notebook computer just in our studio (there's 13 total in our shop). Our two oldest machines have Win98SE on them; the rest are Win2000 Pro and WinXP Pro. By mistake, Dell sent us one machine with XP Home loaded on it a couple years ago. It didn't work worth a...

I don't think you can uninstall SP2 once it is successfully loaded onto a XP Pro computer. You can bail to SP1 during the upgrade process, but I think Windows gets rid of all the old files once the service pack is completely installed. It is a pain to reformat and reinstall applications, but...

Alias|Wavefront Maya is one app I know for a fact will not load under WinXP Home. That goes for both the "Personal Learning Edition" and commercial versions. Previous releases of AutoCAD and Studio3D Max would not work under WinXP Home, but the latest releases will (strangely enough)...

If you change up the "SS" thing so it doesn't look so much like the Chevy deal, that's fine. Just make sure the alteration doesn't look anything like those WWII Nazi "SS" figures.

The SS letters aren't really a font (at least not one that's commercially available). The best bet would be scanning in a good replica of the letters and vectorizing them. With a little tweaking, you can alter "SS" letters set in Serpentine Sans (an Image Club font) and get pretty good results...

If you're not afraid of the learning curve, you could download a copy of Ghostscript and the GS Viewer. There are a number of Ghostscript based scripts for opening Acrobat PDF files and converting them over to EPS .ps files. Even if you can figure out how to use the program you can still get...

The Win 2K and XP limit on graphics software is not such a new development. Most of the major graphics applications on the market now demand a minimum of Windows 2000 or XP to run. The newest releases from Adobe, Macromedia and Corel fall into that category. Some applications won't even run on...

If all you're doing is cutting vinyl graphics for banners and other smaller types of signs then CoCut or other bridge programs may work perfectly fine for your needs. I would recommend an application like Flexi if you're going to do designs for larger scale projects, such as billboards, lighted...

Some builds of Linux will allow emulation of Windows programs. But there are some limits. First you'll take a bit of a performance hit. That might not be so bad if you're just running office productivity apps. For graphics apps, you're best off sticking with Mac or Windows based setups. Unless...

Not that it would happen, but if my financial throat was getting cut on the basis of someone illegally using trademarked material, I would have no problem of turning in their butts to the law. All it takes is just one phone call or e-mail to get the right marketing departments alerted to the...

When it comes to buying software from E-Bay, if the price is much lower than the standard asking price then it is probably illegal even if the seller insists otherwise. For example, I recently paid $740 for my upgrade of AdobeCS2 Premium. I've seen notices on E-Bay and spam in my primary...

All CorelDRAW 9 documents are going to have a Master Page, with master layers. You can't delete Layer 1 on a Master Page without deleting Layer 1 on other pages. Objects placed on a master layer can appear on all pages of a multi-page document. Have the object manager docker opened to see the...

I really don't agree with that sentiment -especially if the "messed up file" comes from someone in an advertising agency or some place like that. Folks in the printing industry, publishing industry and general advertising know about "work flow" and "pre-flighting" jobs before they are output...

As others have pointed out, the overlap problems I'm talking about have to do with artwork imported into Illustrator. Artwork created within Illustrator defaults to non-zero winding fills on strokes. Most imported artwork (particularly that from Corel) is treated opposite of that. And that's...

I'm sure some of you remember my recent posts showing off the high quality of Adobe Illustrator's path offset and outline stroke effects (particularly in comparison with similar effects in CorelDRAW). I still use Corel for a great deal of sign design work, but I bring a lot of Corel-generated...

Both IllustratorCS2 and InDesignCS2 have a Glyphs palette, found under the Type menu. For some odd reason, Photoshop doesn't feature such a thing (at least I haven't found it). You can compose things like Asian type within Photoshop, but it's kind of difficult for a gaijin to manage such a...