Comments for Claudia McCue

Comment on NBC Sued Over Font Licensing by Claudia

Claudia — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:04:48 +0000

Karl,

I’m so glad you like the excerpt from “Real World Print Production.” The book was a labor of love (as is this site, despite how infrequently I post). Thank you for your comment!

Comment on NBC Sued Over Font Licensing by Karl Stange

Karl Stange — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:44:34 +0000

I just read a very impressive font-related excerpt from your recent book on Print Production over at Graphics.com and was most amused to see your comments here as well. So few people seem to grasp how fonts work, their licensing and all the other little details that can complicate and enrich using them and you have done a great job of summarizing (and further elaborating on) some of the greater concerns involved. I was also very amused by your piece about Helvetica and the pronunciation of, ‘neue’ and ‘porsche’; I have had no end of people tripping over the word when asking me about Helvetica and related issues, from now on I think I will point them to your website!

Comment on Setting Illustrator Defaults by Claudia

Claudia — Sat, 22 May 2010 00:24:13 +0000

Steve, thanks for the tech tip; I hadn’t run across any difficulties doing this, but I’ll remember this if anyone hits the wall trying to do so.

Comment on Setting Illustrator Defaults by steve

steve — Sat, 22 May 2010 00:12:28 +0000

Make sure the permissions for the the directory is set to ‘Read & Write’. The installers have been mucking this up for some Suite products.

Mac: [user]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS5/en_US*/New Document Profiles/
Windows: Documents and Settings\(User)\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings\en_US*\New Document Profiles\

* this depends on the language chosen during install

cheers!

Comment on Setting Illustrator Defaults by Claudia

Claudia — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:20:37 +0000

John,
Which problem are you having in Illustrator CS5?

-Claudia

Comment on Setting Illustrator Defaults by John

John — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:16:13 +0000

I hade the same problem with cs5, How can i work that problem. Thanks for all your help! Greetings, Jan holland

Comment on Gee, I Hate to Impose… by Kelley

Kelley — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:53:50 +0000

I too have had an “online” printer leave a bad taste in my mouth. I though I’d save some money by having an online printer handle some business cards: standard-size business cards with rounded corners, 4/4 with bleed, UV coating. When I received the cards, the “rounded corners” were not so nicely rounded, and I seriously questioned the existence of the UV coating. I design a lot of direct mail, and my mail pieces with a UV coating survive the US postal system better than this business card survived one day in a pocket in my purse. I took pictures of the cards and explained the problem, asking for a reprint. They did reprint at no charge, and even gave me extra cards, but these cards were no better than the first round. I eventually received a refund and trashed (well, recycled) 1,500 cards. Next, I sent the job to my local printer. It cost a little more, but at least I’m using these cards. Sometimes, you do get what you pay for.

Comment on Important Change in Illustrator CS4 Pathfinder by Eddy

Eddy — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:14:08 +0000

This change got me by surprise since the launch of CS4 I’ve been having nightmare with this, numerous times I’ve been wanting to go back and change something and I never could, this will save me loads of time re-editing sapes thanks!

Comment on Finding the Area of an Illustrator Object by Photoshop’s Upcoming Content-Aware Fill Feature is Magic | PhotoshopDaily.info

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:33:25 +0000

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Comment on Room to Go by Philip Gomez

Philip Gomez — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:46:03 +0000

So I deleted a file named com.Adobe.Adobe Media Encoder.4.0.plist and it launched. Now let’s see if it works.