For many years now, I've been creating each journal issue cover (once a year) on a Mac that happened to be running an old version of Adobe Creative Suite, and which (it turns out) happened to have all the specific fonts the Illustrator file required. That Mac is now gone, so I've been trying to find a way to edit this year's cover. First I got a copy of the current Illustrator installed in a Windows VM; even after handling all the missing fonts by laboriously searching out substitutes, I was unable to save changes to the file because Illustrator claimed the document dimensions were out of range (they're not; it's about 6" by 9" and has worked for years on old versions of Illustrator). Next, we tried to get our original copy of Illustrator installed on the scanner machine; that eventually worked after GN was able to retrieve ISOs of the now-broken CDs from Rutabaga. However, there are still missing fonts, which we can't get access to.

Finally, I decided that in the interests of being able to pass the project on to a successor at another institution in 2022 (as is the plan), I would rebuild the whole thing in Inkscape. I'm about half-way through, and it's looking good so far, although it's very pernicketty and will take another few hours. Still not sure if I'll be able to get the pantone blue right...

240 minutes.