| billing a nonprofit? |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|12:52 pm] |
So, my freelancing book is en-route, but I have a billing question I just thought of that I'd appreciate any advice..
I am billing a nonprofit, which I know means I can't charge them sales tax. I do get charged income tax on this though.. Is it customary to work a proportionate amount of your tax estimates into your billing somehow? Sorry if this is a stupid question, just curious how other people deal with this.
But for my other clients, should I be charging them tax? Am I going to get taxed for this somehow that I don't know about? I've only ever worked with nonprofits so this hasn't ever come up before, but I've had a few this year now. I will be charged taxes on my income..should I be adding this future charge to my statements, or figuring it into my charges in the first place? What do other people do?
Thanks! |
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[Dec. 18th, 2009|12:00 am] |
Applies to USA orders only. All orders after today must go Priority if you need them by Christmas |
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| Saving pdf in illustrator gives 10x the size? |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|07:03 pm] |
Hello,
Quick question. I have a pdf I need to make some changes in, don't know it's history, just need to add some text.
After making my corrections in Illustrator - I save. And the file jumps from size 3.34MB to 44MB.
When I un-choose "Preserve editing capabilities" it jumps down to 21.2MB
I would like to know how I can prevent this, or do something else, so the file don't become this big.
UPDATE - I tried saving again, and this time I picked "No conversion" in Color Conversion.
And boom, the file size is back at 3.34MB.
I must confess, I have never paid much attention to this field, when saving documents in Illustrator. So I don't know if it is a bad thing.
But the pdf looks the same, and have the orginal size...so?
Thanks for any advice.
Mikado |
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| Donating Design Time: When to Quit |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|11:13 am] |
I'm sure most of you have done some kind of 'free' design work, whether it be for a friend or a cause. My question is, have you ever had one of those jobs become so demanding that it seems you're being used? If so, what's the best way to go about cutting ties without offending anyone and burning bridges?
I've done a lot of work recently for someone who is very, very indecisive and manic in what they want. I've had to do many different versions of things and I've even brought a photographer friend of mine into it. Now, we're just too weary of the whole situation to continue. I need to know how to excuse myself without making any enemies. |
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| Tables in Illustrator CS3? |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|01:29 pm] |
I don't have InDesign, just to get that out of the way ;)
So I need to use a table in Illustrator. I'll need to edit the text and edit the table (margins etc). I found a webpage that sais you can copy/paste tables from Word into Illustrator but it definitely is not working - what it pastes is rows of this:
I@C'"%L"(.$;;%D+#:%/@:.%M@3"
etc.
Is there a way to make an editable table in Illustrator, or another program that's not InDesign (I KNOW I should be using InDesign but it's not installed on this computer. Either is PageMaker) - or a way to do in Illustrator? Or just tell me what I'm doing wrong copy/pasting with Word.
Thank you!! |
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| Integrating Web 2.0 Features |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|11:51 am] |
So I'm finally jumping on the bandwagon (or at least testing the waters). I am working on a website and would like to include a twitter feed right on the page. Anybody have suggestions on the best way to do it? Or some tutorial sites that work?
The other element I would like to include is something I'm seeing on many websites. I'm not sure how to google for it. It's a small bar that sometimes says "Share" and has the twitter, Blog, LJ, and facebook icons on it that allows people to easily find the company on social networking sites. I'm not even sure what you would call it?
Help? |
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| Converting Illustrator Files to DWG or DXF |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|04:36 pm] |
Hello all,
I am supposed to send a bunch of logos in DXF format to a guy who's going to use a router to cut them in wood. I was told to export to DXF from Illustrator and check a box that says "plines"... I'm not finding anything like that, and he couldn't give me any more information, so I was wondering if any of you have had experience with this and can tell me what's going on? Googling isn't getting me anywhere and I looked in the memories but couldn't find anything there either. I already sent one batch of files and was told I hadn't saved it out right, and apparently it was the "plines" thing that was the problem.
I did make sure all the logos were 1-color, but I am sort of out of my depth here...
Edited to add: My research is slowly leading me to believe that Illustrator will convert bezier curves to splines if you just export to dxf, while the software our people are using requires polylines instead of splines. So. Anyone know how to convert bezier curves directly to polylines? I find lots of results for going the other direction... |
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| Ways to tighten up designs |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|04:33 pm] |
So I'm an undergrad graphic design student and one of the things in my Final Critique that my prof told me was that my designs seemed unfinished to him, does anyone have any links where I can look at how elements are used in a creative way and to create a more finished design? I feel like I'm putting all this effort and the end grade for each individual project is decent but the final grade hasn't budged since Intro.
Thanks!
Edit: Here are my designs from the semester: http://www.strangedaysthese.com/fall2009designs
Design 1: Design a Web Banner for Mediabistro's Unbeige Blog.
Design 2: Design a Music Poster for the All Points West New Jersey Music Festival
Design 3 a,b: Research a Typeface time period, "Post Modern", "Art Deco", "Modernism"
Design 4: Design a Classic Novel...
Design 5: Create a letterform logo using your initials
I apologize for the quality of the images my school server isn't connecting for some reason and all of these are on there.
The class was typography and the main thing he said that they looked unfinished need to work on composition and angles. |
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| Photo Books |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|12:53 pm] |
Hi there - I have a client who just hired me to design a custom photo book of his mother's 60th Birthday Party images. He doesnt want to get a regular photo book that you can order from flickr or iphoto. He wants something higher quality and has the $$ to spend on it. Does anyone have any recommendations for super high quality photo book printing companies online? I found one that seems pretty good but would like some recommendations from folks that have actually used some. And I will be designing this in indesign and sending them the files so I need one that accepts files (most have those online page layout programs).
Thanks so much! |
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