Cian Byrne
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Boltons on Camden St in Dublin do name badges.
Not sure if they supply blanks but I know they produce in-house.
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Same issue on one of our walls in office. Have another wall done and there’s no issues. Same roll.
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Just tried this out and it seems to work. Images attached.
1 Outline Font, make it a colour
2 Draw a box behind the font. Pick a colour that different to text
3 Duplicate the box, change to another colour and drag it halfway. Doing it that way because if you draw 2 boxes and butt them together you can end up with 2 cut lines right next to each other, this will give you a single line in the end.
4. Select everything, and use Pathfinder Divide tool. This splits the artwork up in individual pieces
5. Click one of the black text pieces using the Direct Selection Tool, and go to menu Select>Same>Fill Colour. This will select all the text pieces.
6. Back to Pathfinder, use the Unite Tool. This joins the text back together.
7. Select everything, take off fill, and put on stroke.
Hopefully that works for you.
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A designer we had working for us brought this system along and it’s worked for us.
Jobs Folder
> Customer Name
>> Date of job in reverse_Name of Job
>>>Assets
>>>Working Files
>>>Print Files
>>>Everything Else
The date in reverse is yearmonthdate, so today is 20210701. This allows you to sort by folder name and it organises list by date, if you rely on the folder modified dates they can be a bit off if you’ve linked to a file in a folder and it updated.
It also allow you to offload old folders to a backup by searching for 202101 to give you all of January’s folders, or 202006 for last years June folders and then you can drag and drop.
Also helps if you name the job with something you’ll remember rather than “labels’ or “sign”
Looks a bit complex but it works and we have no problems finding jobs from years back. Once you know who it was for, and roughly when the job was it’s easy to find.
