-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I've been using Corel since version 3 so I know it best. I have Illustrator 10 but anything I do in Illustrator comes at great effort. Corel is second nature to me. I am going to try to learn to be proficient at Illustrator but I'm sure I will always prefer Corel.
Now, if I could just get paid by the word for taking several dozen words to say what could have been done in one--Corel, I might be able to retire from the sign business.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Corel since we switched from Arts and Letters WAY back...anybody still use that? We started with Design CAD. What a long way deSIGN programs have come since THEN! Corel is an awesome program that does it all. Our sons work at another sign shop and have learned both and said Corel is far superior.
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-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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i have ARTS & LETTERS 6.0 on this computer...great program, very underrated....there is a verion 7.0 i think..
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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-------------------- Leaper of Tall buildings.. If you find my posts divisive or otherwise snarky please ignore them. If you do not know how then PM me about it and I will demonstrate. Posts: 5273 | From: Im a nowhere man | Registered: Jul 2001
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I've been using Illustrator about 10-11 years now and CorelDRAW for 6 so I've got enough time on both to be profficient either way.
I just wish either one of them could automatically kick out vectorized halftones (I think there might be a plug-in available somewhere?) That would have saved me a LOT of headaches over the past couple weeks!
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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I've been using CorelDRAW for many years. I started using Illustrator about a year ago. The going was a bit frustrating at first. It seems, for the most part, the developers of each program took different roads to the same destination. I'm getting used to solving problems the Illustrator way and enjoy using it as much as Corel. Photoshop is another story; however, the things I have a handle on, I like. When it's said and done, I'll bet I like them all.
-------------------- Dave Parr Sign Painter USA Posts: 709 | From: USA | Registered: May 2003
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Corel Draw for all my fancy shmancy work for print and logo design. Omega for sign production as in printing to the Edge and cutting sticky things (vynulllll) to put on sign materials.
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-------------------- Stevo Design Illustration Logos Sign Design Clip Art www.stevo-design.com Posts: 1680 | From: Edmonton Ab Canada EH! | Registered: May 2001
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What platform Duncan; Venus or Sovereign? I go for Venus; so much more reliable. However, I do miss that plastic thingy at the end, it was so pleasing to the tooth.
-------------------- Arthur Vanson Bucks Signs Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England arthur@buckssigns.co.uk -------------------- Posts: 805 | From: Chesham, Bucks, England | Registered: Mar 2002
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Is there anyone using signlab or flexi or any other dedicated sign soft? Even part of the time?
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Got Corel 2 (it came on a whopping THREE floppy discs), and Flexi 5 & I like Flexi, though I learnt on Corel. Using version 7 & then 10 I still find it a bit odd. (Maybe I'm the odd one ). Flexi is a breeze. I Didn't like Signlab or Signwizard when I tried them. I'm learning (forcing myself to learn) Illustrator & love Photoshop.
Each to his own if it gets the job done.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Illustrator 8 and CS. Started with freehand before that. Only time I use corel is to send files to a t shirt shop I do designs for.
-------------------- Maker of fine signs and other creative stuff. Located at 109 N. Cumberland ave. Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-837-0242 Posts: 4172 | From: Ages-Brookside, Ky. Up the Holler... | Registered: Jul 1999
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I do most of my designing in CAS-Mate Pro. I also use it for vinyl cutting. It has been a good workhorse for us. Well worth the money we paid for it.
I also have Inspire 1.6 and FlexiSign Pro 7. I use these primarily for printing. I use them to import files for conversion into usable formats, too. I have been learning how to use the Flexi more and more because I realize that operating systems are not going to allow me to use CAS-Mate down the road.
I use CorelDRAW 8 for coloring and pasting into Photo Paint. It is a pretty seamless cut-n-paste and works well for me. I also use it for importing files and converting them to something I can use.
I can fake my way around Corel DRAW when I have to. The same goes for Flexi. I do feel very comfortable with CAS-Mate. Heck, I only been using it 10 years or so...
Inspire and Flexi were upgrades from Scanvec to make up for the screwing they gave all the users. The merger did little to impress me. Their tech support, for many reasons, is awful. The programs are good but without the support, what the heck good is it?
If I was to start all over again, knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have lived through the limitations early versions of Corel DRAW. The newer versions have come a long way to becoming a very viable alternative. There are still some weak links there but it would be a good choice if the cost was a major concern.
Software choices are going to be determined what the ultimate end use is going to be. If large format printing is in your future, then looking for a RIP (ColorBurst, Harlequin, Onyx, etc.) or a program that has one included (Flexi Pro)is what you need.
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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Signlab here since 1992, version 3.22 since 1994 Does everything I need as far as basic design and vinyl cutting. I run 2 Gerber 4b's and a 30" 750 plotter from it and they can cut more vinyl than I can weed and stick in one day.
I use Corel 11 for fancy stuff and for digital printing.
-------------------- Dennis Veenema The Sign Shop Dresden, Ont. but what do I know anyway...I've only been doing this for 20 years! Posts: 368 | From: Dresden, Ont.,CAN | Registered: May 1999
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It looks like Corel is the "President"! I used to use it, but have gotten away from any and all designing for a while. I use a Flexi based product for sign design, but I was thinking of repurchasing another design software to do fancier publishing type designing. My "designer" uses Illustrator...but he does publishing design-not primarily signs. He uses Photoshop too. I just didn't know which way to go at this point. Anyone else wanna put their 2 cents in?
-------------------- Nancie W. Phillips White Dove Painting Studio 74 Dacula Road, Dacula, GA 30019 678-887-3339
Adobe Photoshop: For image re-sizing, clean-up, and other misc.
Got away from corel a while ago... no real reason, but now I am so fluent in Flexi I cant imagine using anything else.
-------------------- -------------------- Dave Cox C2 Media Services (Formerly That Sign Guy) dave@c2mediaservices.com -------------------- Full Color Printing Posts: 295 | From: Sacramento CA | Registered: Jan 2003
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You can't lose with Corel or Illustrator, though to say Corel is the signage president could be debated, just as much as saying Illustrator is only for publishing, they can both do it, and do it well. If you do use Illustrator, I do suggest CadTools for designg in scale....Corel already has this capability built in, CadTools just has a lot more too it. I think if you are a Photoshop user, Illusrator might make a ittle sense simply because they work better together, for obvious reasons. Thier interface is at least familiar, so that may help in the learning curve. Otherwise they both are capable.
-------------------- Rick Chavez Hemet, CA Posts: 1538 | From: Hemet,CA U.S.A. | Registered: Jun 2001
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