R C-R
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18 minutes ago, William Overington said:
I note that @R C-R is laughing at that post now too. I wonder why.
Because your idea of being paid for nothing more than a new product or tool suggestion is still just as absurd & laughable as it as been from the beginning.
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3 hours ago, William Overington said:
Suppose that I suggest an additional Affinity product, Affinity Constellations.
Anybody can make a suggestion for a product but only someone living in a fantasy world would expect any company to pay them anything for that. If you do not understand why the idea is absurd, please contact a lawyer who specializes in intellectual property (IP) rights & ask for an explanation of what does & does not constitute IP.
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1 hour ago, KarinC said:
The sources that say that a pixel is 1/96 of an inch would not be correct then - right - wrong?
As explained here, the definition of pixel is greatly dependent on the context so, absent of any qualifiers that statement would likely be incorrect more often than not.
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2 hours ago, William Overington said:
That would depend upon the nature of the idea.
There is simply no reliable way to determine what any one idea is worth on its own, separate & apart from everything else. If you think otherwise please give an example of the "kind' of idea whose value somehow could be quantified independently of all else.
But this is really much simpler than that: In no meaningful sense, legally or otherwise, is it possible to own an idea. Therefore it is neither real or intellectual property & cannot be sold, licensed, given away, etc.
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1 minute ago, William Overington said:
Because Canva would not have the benefit resulting from what I had suggested to them if I had not suggested it to them.
There is absolutely no way you could know if what you suggested to them was an original idea that had not been suggested by someone else inside or outside the company, & no way for either you or them to know what if any monetary benefits would be derived solely from its implementation.
But regardless, you are not doing any of the work needed to implement the idea, which is why your sportswear analogy is bogus.
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1 minute ago, William Overington said:
No, the sportswear company stated its needs, for example "we want a logo that expresses graceful performances in athletic events while wearing our sportswear so people feel that what they do while wearing our sportswear is graceful" and the designer produces a design that expresses that.
IOW, the designer did all the work to produce the design, just like @pixelstuff said. So unless you did all the work to turn your idea into an actual product feature, why would you expect Canva to pay you anything for it?
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4 minutes ago, William Overington said:
i would be happy to send an idea to Affinity if there comes into existence an infrastructure such that if Affinity takes it up that I receive a small percentage of the extra money that Affinity makes as a result of taking up the idea.
First, they would never agree to that unless you could somehow prove the idea is an original one of yours that no one else has ever thought of. You & Canva would also both need to be prepared to defend any legal actions resulting from claims by others that the idea was something they thought of first.
Second, how could Canva quantify how much money implementing that idea had made them?
But more to the point, consider it akin to trying to copyright or patent an idea vs. copyrighting or patenting something substantive like a book or an invention. AFAIK, there is no legal precedent for anything like that.
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15 minutes ago, GarryP said:
I’m not entirely convinced that this functionality is working exactly as it should
Nor am I, which is why I said it seems buggy.
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On 4/8/2024 at 8:01 PM, thomaso said:
… "Variante de police" – is a font in French the police… for text appearance? 👮♀️
FWIW, my French to English translator Safari extension translates "Variante de police" as "Variants of policies." So I assumed it was the same label as what the Mac Character Viewer labels "Font Variation" in English.
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3 hours ago, William Overington said:
Well, large amounts of money have been paid for Affinity.
Which has nothing to do with it. To my knowledge, no company pays for nothing more than ideas its customers have submitted.
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6 hours ago, GarryP said:
Sometimes I can click on where the Stroke should be and the mouse pointer changes to ‘loaded’ but when I click on another layer that clicked-on layer flashes but nothing else seems to happen.
"Where the stroke should be" is what I was calling the path of a vector object, so you sometimes get the same thing I am getting consistently.
To apply the picked style to another vector object, I can either drag around it with the tool or click on its path, but if I click inside that object I get the same flash you do, so it seems buggy to me.
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5 minutes ago, TravisL said:
Hi R C-R, this is the Geometry panel and what I mean by Union is called Add in Affinity Designer (first button) to join two shapes/curves together. I'm using the most recent version (V2) 2.4 and I saw this issue in version 2.3. Not sure if it's something that would have been fixed for 2.4.
Please post an example file with this issue.
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9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
With the default forum settings as I understand them, the tagging and quoting will notify the user at least in the forums. I'm not sure if that would include an email notification by default, though.
I could be wrong but I think one has to opt in for that.
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33 minutes ago, William Overington said:
Why laugh out loud?
Because software companies rarely if ever pay for nothing more than ideas about features users would like to see implemented.
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4 hours ago, MikeTO said:
I'm replying to your post in the Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS - (2.4.2) thread so we're not cluttering up that announcement post.
??? This looks like a new, one post topic started by you, not a reply to an existing topic. So I am not sure @Demonskunk will see it.
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8 hours ago, GarryP said:
I don’t seem to be able to Load the Style Picker from a layer with no Stroke and no Fill...
I only tried loading it from an ellipse 'quick shape' or a simple closed shape made with the Pen Tool, both with no stroke or fill. With either object selected in the Layers panel so I could see the bounding box & path, I could click on the path to load the picker. I could not click anywhere else to get it to load.
Attached is my Style Picker test.afphoto I used.
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I'm not quite sure what you mean by Geometry panel, or which Affinity app & version you are using, but maybe if you post a simple example file with this problem it would help make things clearer.
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3 hours ago, albertkinng said:
This is precisely what I mean. In my experience, buyers often believe that the original product is superior and will attempt to "fix" the one they purchased.
How could buyers "fix" the software they bought & what does that have to do with what Canva will do with Affinity?
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25 minutes ago, Oufti said:
BTW, the check mark ✓ is a standard Unicode character (U+2713), present in many fonts.
It is present in Wingdings & Wingdings 2 on my Mac, but not in Wingdings 3.
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4 hours ago, markw said:
If this is so then these Extensions were mostly removed in Affinity Photo 2.
Any idea why?
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8 hours ago, Alfred said:
Wingdings comes as standard with Windows, but I’d be surprised if macOS doesn’t offer something similar.
On my Mac there are 3 Wingdings fonts, named Wingdings, Wingdings 2, & Wingdings 3, stored in /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/ & availble in the Affinities, Textedit, & so on.
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34 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Again, even by experienced users; we all make mistakes.
Not me! I never make missnakes!
- Alfred, walt.farrell and Hangman
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3 hours ago, Ove Steen said:
But now "Check spelling" from the Text menu suddenly says with any language.:
”Document contains languages (da-DK) for which no dictionnary is installed“.
Do you get this error message with any APub file that includes text items or just particular ones? If the latter, can you post an example of the ones that do, if possible one with just a few pages to keep the file size down?
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So then why exactly do you expect any company to pay you anything for something you have absolutely no ownership rights for? Do you have no business sense at all?