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I doubt if Scanvec-Amiable would ever drop support of the Mac platform. Flexi has had a Mac version as long as I can remember. However, it will be interesting to see how Scanvec-Amiable handles the transition from PowerPC-based code to Intel x86-based code in MacOSX. How fast will the...

IllustratorCS2 is a very good application. It's certainly handy for opening just about any kind of AI, EPS or PDF file and then converting the art to the version of EPS you need. When using Illustrator just be careful about using many of the raster-based effects (such a gradient mesh or...

Constant application updates are nothing new. Adobe publicly stated they were on a 18 month upgrade cycle. I think they've kept to that, at least when it comes to Photoshop and Illustrator. I've seen updates to other applications (such as GoLive) happen more frequently. Photoshop was the only...

I received my copy of the Adobe CS2 Premium upgrade today and installed it (all 3.5GB of it from 4 installer CDs) on my Dell Inspiron 6000d notebook. It's still a bit early to make a complete judgment, but overall things look pretty good. As a registration bonus, I downloaded the Garamond...

Just to add something, the live effects in later versions of Illustrator can add other hurdles to importing AI files into Flexi. Especially when it comes using AI art to cut vinyl or rout parts, Illustrator users should view their layouts in "Outline" or "Artwork" view (depending on version)...

FWIW, Macromedia Freehand exhibits some of the same kinds of problems in duplicating paths for a variety of operations. I haven't seen the Illustrator style duplicate layer thing, but you will still get duplicates on some tasks. For example, I like to use Freehand for creating outline paths...

Unless you have some kind of plug-in that installs directly into the CorelDRAW program, you don't cut from it. If you have Flexi, use Flexi to cut your vinyl. Its production manager gives you a lot more control over your plotting options than what you would get with a simple printer style...

Clip art is an extremely misunderstood item in terms of legal use -especially computer based clip art. There are two key problems. Problem one: the general public, and this includes 99.99% of business people, view ALL clip art as "generic" and, by nature, royalty free imagery that's legal to...

I think Photoshop's own vector handling capabilities are pretty decent. However, I see no purpose in Photoshop duplicating a bunch of functions from Illustrator. The clipping path function in Signlab sounds pretty convenient. But in general, when I'm designing raster images for large format...

I appreciate any efforts a company makes in accomodating files from widely used applications like Photoshop, Illustrator and CorelDRAW. Still, I guess the primary benefit I see from an application like SignLab bundling in AlienSkin filters is those users who don't have Photoshop or another...

If you have Flexi 7.5, you can download the Flexi 7.6 upgrade. I haven't seen any problems with 7.5 though. The only issue I've had with Flexi has been from trying to load Flexi 6.6 on WinXP Pro systems (gotta have 7.x). Not to knock VMP, but it sure isn't Flexi or even the ol' dead CASmate...

I prefer Flexi, although SignLab is a very good program. Flexi does a good job of opening old CASmate files, CorelDRAW files and importing Illustrator and EPS artwork. It also integrates pretty well with computer routing solutions like EnRoute. Flexi is also a much more commonly used "CAS"...

I have two reasons. I've made up my mind that I'm going to buy the Premium upgrade anyway. Second, I don't want to risk gumming up my notebook with extra registry trash from having a demo version of CS2 and then installing a new version over the top of it. As it stands, I'll clean off my...

I'm going to be ordering the CS2 Premium upgrade sometime next week. I'm waiting until then to pass the closing date on my next credit card statement -that way I can pay off that $739 balance in July. The Live Trace feature looks promising for some purposes. However I don't have my hopes set on...

Those Bitstream fonts are very common. CorelDRAW has used them for over a decade. They've also been a staple in the dead CASmate program and its successors Inspire (also dead) and FlexiSign. WinXP may take away some of the limits on how many fonts one can install within the system. Still, I...

The "Broadwing" lettering looks a lot like Trade Gothic, but not a perfect match. The upper right stem on the lower case "g" is different from the normal Trade Gothic glyph. On top of that, the "Broadwing" italic lettering appears to be horizontally stretched (which also amplifies the amount of...

First of all, Scanvec-Amiable have hardly even made Flexi a fully functioning Win32/NT compliant application. There's a hodge podge of all sorts of ill-designed code in there. If the app had been fully 32-bit and NT compatible we wouldn't have seen those hangups with Flexi 6.x dying on WinXP Pro...

I've been a PC user for the last several years. For sign related stuff, Windows and Intel/AMD-based PCs are perfectly fine. It's also arguably best to do web development and web design on Windows-based systems since they display color differently and use different system fonts. However, I am...

If you have a recent version of CorelDRAW, Libra is there in 1000 fonts collection. CASmate has featured it in their fonts discs and it is also on the FlexiSign fonts disc too.

I chose to start a new thread since the previous discussion about Trajan was threatening to hijack someone else's Font ID thread. I've been doing some "Trajanspotting" lately, to make a play off the movie title "Trainspotting" (a film that used Helvetica on its movie poster and Bureau Grotesque...