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We're busy. For now. This situation feels a little like 1999 or 2006, just before some serious down-turns. But this time it feels more strange. The bursting of the housing industry bubble in 2006 that hurt a big part of the global economy didn't affect us all that badly. Housing prices in...

I use multiple platforms in my work setup. Some design tasks are best done on a full fledged desktop PC with multiple monitors. I'll use a notebook PC for more light weight jobs. I use my iPad Pro for more specialized purposes, particularly tasks where I need to sketch, draw or paint something...

Basic idiocy is at epidemic levels in our nation. We had an open position in our design department recently that is now for the time being going to remain vacant. Unfortunately I was not involved in the job interview process. Out of more than a dozen applicants the person we ended up hiring...

Never mind. I figured it out. It's Oilvare. https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/adam-ladd/oilvare/

Does anyone have an ID for the font used in the attached "2020" sample image? It looks inspired by the old Cosmos typeface, except Cosmos doesn't have a "highlight" version. This one is pretty rough and grungy looking, so I figure it must be a freebie font from any number of free fonts sites. If...

Stacey, aside from the whole criminal angle (which is a giant red flag), there is the question of deadline. She contacted you, saying she is opening in just 2 days and needs signs right now? That alone would be enough to make me pass. That issue alone sends off all kinds of warning signs about...

For drawing directly onto a screen? An iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil is going to be the best value. Wacom mobile tablet computers are good but really expensive (especially for the guts inside you get for the money). Battery life for the iPad is a lot better than a typical notebook. The Apple...

I'm sure there is an "evil" business-related motive behind the automatic updates in Windows 10. However there is a practical angle as behind the practice too. Many computer users are very lazy about applying updates, even when a certain update is an urgent security matter or just 100% in their...

Normally there should be three distinctly different icons for AI, PDF and EPS files when Adobe Creative Cloud and Illustrator CC is installed. The EPS icon is white and has a little Bezier path thing above the EPS letters. The icon is still associated with Adobe Illustrator and will launch...

The correct typeface is Avenir Next Extra Bold. The "2", "3" and especially the "5" are big indicators. Avenir Next is a system typeface for Mac OSX and iPad OS. However, the square dots in the phone number are customized. The stock period dots in Avenir and Avenir Next are circular. There...

It looks like a crude knock-off of Poor Richard.

There are enough complaints about crash issues with the Find-Replace function over in the CorelDRAW 2021 user forum that there is little doubt over it being a bug. Some of the issues I've been seeing with type will vary from one type family to the next. But the same fonts work normally in other...

Breaking apart the letters and manually rotating them is often required to make the effect not look like $#!+.

The text on arc effect in SignLab doesn't look fundamentally any different than similar effects in CorelDRAW, Illustrator or other industry specific CAS applications. It's just a matter of how it is rotating individual letters. Some of the same problems remain. If the letters are too large or...

I don't know a lot about Smart Designer, but at first glance it just looks like a collection of canned templates where you change the lettering in pre-existing designs.

I am not fond of the standard Text on Path effects within CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator for the reasons you describe. The results often end up looking pretty wacky because the effect is only rotating the letters and often not doing the best job of it either. Any letters that are wide at all...

I never used Inspire. I used its fore-runner, CASmate for several years. Our shop wasn't very interested in upgrading to Inspire. Not long after Inspire was developed Amiable Technologies and Scanvec merged to create Scanvec-Amiable (later SAi). We ended up switching our CASmate dongles to...

Didn't see this making a lot of news headlines. The passing of Charles Geschke is noteworthy, given he and John Warnock laid the foundation for much of what we do with computer graphics. It was almost an accident that Geschke pursued a career in computing. He had been a college professor and a...

CorelDRAW has never had unlimited zoom-out (or zoom-in for that matter). No vector drawing application has such a thing; all have limits. For the longest time the maximum art board size in CorelDRAW has been 1800" X 1800". That's the "drawing space" limit. And the maximum zoom-out level can...

Looks like some others beat me to it.