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It looks like a modified version of Stop. Any recent version of CorelDRAW should have it on the disc. Canvas has a number of variants of the font with their collection of 2000 URW fonts. I don't remember if Freehand has it in their lesser collection of 500 URW fonts. About a year ago, one of...

I just got back home from a late showing of "The Interpreter." Pretty decent political thriller. The first movie ever filmed inside the U.N. But yet another film that used Trajan on the titles. "The Interpreter" is also yet another film that misuses Trajan as a small caps typeface. The folks...

Trajan is also the most glaringly over-used typeface for movie titles. I threw together the attached collage a couple years ago as a reaction to the trend. The titles in the image are just a mere fraction of those using Trajan. Kind of a sad thing. Trajan is a very stately looking typeface. But...

All artwork intended for print should be set in CMYK. Illustrator CS is trying to do you a favor in "pre-flighting" common user errors out of your document. It's best to end up with a final file in CMYK mainly for the purposes of having a more accurate idea of how your colors are going to...

Be very careful about working between RGB and CMYK modes. You don't want a mix of CMYK vectors and RGB raster art in a file. The actual output file, be it a TIFF, EPS or whatever, needs to be all CMYK. Normally when I send a CD off to a large format service bureau, I'll include the file I want...

1st question (regarding ppi and color mode): Printers and service bureaus prefer everything in CMYK. You should only send them an RGB file if you have something screwy going on in your color management. I've seen Photoshop's gamma loader fight with Kodak CMS and then yield "double color...

The key on this computer is an Aladdin brand key. It is a white key with the same HASP logo on the back of it (with a halo around the "A") as shown on the Aladdin download page accessible from Scanvec-Amiable's support page. This key replaced a former CASmate key that was changed to run Flexi...

I have a technical question regarding the possibility of operating EnRoute 2.3 under Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2. It's been a few months since I have investigated this issue (since Win XP SP2 was first released). Some recent Windows critical updates have reminded me of it. Our shop...

Holy Moly. This has to be some kind of a joke. I wonder if the US Department of Justice will weigh in on any kind of anti-trust concerns. Adobe would appear to be one gigantic graphics software monopoly after this deal. Corel used to be a PC graphics industry tentpole, but now it looks like a...

Actually, over the last few years, is it Adobe products like Illustrator that have tried to act more like CorelDRAW. Adobe adopted Corel's selection style and its shape tool. Still, Illustrator doesn't have nearly as fast screen refresh rates as Corel. Place a high resolution bitmap image or...

Our company's last four quarters have been incredible. 2004 was a great year for us. We ran through much of the year with work backlogs worth $500,000 or more. A good amount of that was electronic message centers though. I'm not sure if we'll outdo 2004's numbers in 2005, but we're off to a...

We used to have a Gerber 4B several years ago. I remember the days of using the DOS version of CASmate 2.x and the interface thingie for that machine. Don't you just love the font cartridges for that machine? Kinda reminded me of Nintendo game cartridges. We sold our 4B to a monument company...

3200 X 1200? I suppose that's two monitors running at 1600 X 1200 resolution. I have a 21" Viewsonic P815 monitor at home I've been using for several years now (it's set up at 1600 X 1200, expensive monitor to buy at the time but has been reliable all these years and has a very fast refresh...

Corel is a program for more than just sign makers. Though I defer to Illustrator and Freehand for a good number of vector art purposes, the superior object creation tools and other features still make CorelDRAW an indepensible application, IMHO. The standard EPS import filter in CorelDRAW works...

For sharp text, you can't beat vector based artwork. If I need rasterized fades or shadows in the background I'll use some raster art for that, but I'll try hard to keep the text itself as infinitely sharp vector based art. Photoshop is an absolutely great program that fits into just about...

Back in January there was some buzz about Adobe fixing to announce the second version of their Creative Suite. This was on the heels of the launch of Adobe Acrobat 7. The new version of Acrobat would provide some of the underlying foundation in upgrades of Illustrator, InDesign and even...

Here's an additional thing to consider about building and installing electrical signs. A growing number of states are now enacting licensing and certification programs that require full service sign companies to meet certain standards. For example, our company does a good amount of work in...

Yes, Colorado Springs could use a full service sign company. Unfortunately, the city has a pretty restrictive and not very well thought out sign ordinance. The effect of that ordinance is it makes it difficult to impossible for a full service sign company to survive there. Also, in my opinion...

Fonts can get kinda mangled in small embroidery. But I can tell for certain that one is Microgramma Bold. It's available in Corel's font collection (and I think the 2000 font collection in Canvas).

Autotracing functions in Adobe Streamline or Flexi and others are okay for rough comp purposes, but little else. If you want well vectorized stuff, nothing outperforms vectorizing by hand. My tool of choice for any auto tracing functions is a two step process in Adobe Photoshop. Use the the...