how many programs

[tinaski 11]

we were talking to a friend of ours that does vinyl work and we got to talking about how many programs they use and why.

just wondering how many you use

he uses one flexi - that is all he really needs and once in a while we will open AI

we use about 6 different ones

for design we use

http://www.inkscape.org

http://sk1project.org/

http://www.scribus.net/

COREL DRAW 9

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR 10

and to cut we use

TUX PLOT http://www.securetech-ns.ca/camm-linux.html

[Guest sciondrgn]

Inkscape for Vectorizing

Flexi for Editing and Cutting

Robo Cutting Master for Contour Cut/Printed Decals

[hockeygirl 30]

I use mainly Illustrator CS3/4. Although I now have LXI (Flexi) I may use it more, but I'm just so much more familiar with the Adobe family that it takes me so much less time to do what I want with it.

[Sue2 920]

I have a print shop and we also offer quick signage

so we have a variety of programs.

Those I use every day are InDesign, Photoshop, CorelDraw.

Also available are Adobe Illustrator, Publisher, PageMaker,

WORD, The Print Shop

For the HP 5500 I use CorelDraw. 

For the vinyl cutter CorelDraw to design then SignBlazer to cut.

Sue

[Dylan 0]

I use mainly Illustrator CS3/4. Although I now have LXI (Flexi) I may use it more, but I'm just so much more familiar with the Adobe family that it takes me so much less time to do what I want with it.

Within Flexi,

from the file menu,

select workspace,

then check Adobe.

Now the buttons will use the Adobe interface, and macros.

hope this helps

[MZ SKEETER 4,709]

go to myfont.com  what the font.  I guess if you can't match it up using "what the font",  there are actually font geeks that can figure out what it is.  I have never tried,  but have heard of others on here. 

[cohort 0]

Corel 12

Inkscape (mostly for auto tracing)

SBE

Photoshop 7

[midwaste 4]

Illy CS4 and SBE.  I have used some of the other auto-trace programs in the past, but none have been any better overall than Illy Livetrace.

Very infrequently I'll use PS.

[tinaski 11]

another that i am just starting to use is

Karbon14

not really sure what i can do with it yet http://www.koffice.org/karbon/

[James605 7]

Photoshop for raster design

Illustrator for vector design

versaworks to print

[haumana 1,221]

CS3 (win): PS, FW, ILLY

CS4 (mac): PS, FW, ILLY

Inkscape

VM

SBE

Flexi