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  1. Archangel
    @Old Bruce Interesting. Rotating the rectangle slightly doesn't work for me, It still has the transparency above and below, just at an angle.
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    When creating a document in AfPub using a parchment fill texture I found an interesting if annoying bug. This applies to the whole Affinity suite it seems. Exporting as a PDF squishes the background rectangle leaving a transparency at the top and bottom of the exported file. It is possibly linked to margin settings rather than document dimensions. PDF Flatten works appropriately and the rectangle appears as it should. This is also true for the other formats I have tried. I haven't tried them all. No other texture I've tried seems to have a problem. I have uploaded a test publisher file for you to try which should display the effect. SVG Export exhibits the same issue although flatten works very well. PDF Test with parchment fill.afpub PDF Test with parchment fill.pdf PDF Test with parchment fill.svg PDF Test with parchment fill flatten.svg PDF Test with parchment fill flatten.pdf
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    Judging the feckless as workshy is problematic. People who avoid working out of terror, due to not being able to deal with the rigours of a working environment could be said to be shying away from work, but they are not workshy in the sense of being lazy. Pressuring such people to apply for jobs is in itself counterproductive. These people need gentle encouragement and real help in dealing with their problems on a day-to-day basis. They suffer daily due to extreme feelings of terror and anxiety. Tarring everybody with the same brush, as many newspapers tend to do, means that authentic welfare claimants get treated the same as those who are seen as malingering. Under such an environment of hatred against welfare claimants, the vulnerable suffer undue distress and "guilt" for being vulnerable. Political rhetoric poisons the mind of the populace and manipulates good people to think in a particular way, Propaganda and groupthink make individuals desire to fit in with the herd through conformity. In a war of "us" versus "them" we tend to want to be part of the "us" group for a "quiet life" and to avoid being persecuted. This is coercive and evil. However, reforming welfare will always be a very difficult job and must be done with care and concern for the people that welfare is there to protect.
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    @KomatösAs has been said "plebs" is short for "plebeians" the lower classes in Roman society. A politician once called a police officer a pleb as a put down implying a superiority of class over him. It is best understood as a reference to the lower classes in society. These are the ones who are more likely to depend on welfare for their survival. The vulnerable within that echelon are seriously dependent on the state's generosity for their continued existence. Welfare reform (essentially cutting the Social Security bill) has an unfortunate habit of hitting the most vulnerable harder than those who are more capable.
  5. Archangel
    I think this one works best ...
  6. Archangel
    Web safe PNG ...
  7. Archangel
    Very possibly. However, I would argue that building care and compassion into a system will allow for the system's failings and provide a way to mitigate some of the worst disasters and injustices which can occur.
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    A very educated response. @PaulEC Interestingly, it is allegedly what a politician referred to a police officer a few years ago. @Alfred Yes, that is true. However, in this case, the policy is the poem's subject rather than the DWP itself. Although, organisation and policy are linked one does not necessarily lead to them being synonymous. There is danger in any reform of the vulnerable being harmed by the changes, particularly those who suffer from serious mental and neurological health issues. The system is seldom based on kindness and compassion and as such people get caught up in circumstances which can lead to disaster. Sadly, many have already died in the reforms already made and those cases were, on the whole, hushed up by the government. There's nothing like bad press to derail a policy and show the dark side of changes made. That phrase has been playing in my mind for a long long time so I wrote it down.
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    Interesting, it seems to happen when I've used Export to PNG 8-bit and then saved the document on closing. Despite it not being altered in any way. Exporting from a document should not trigger the document has changed flag in the software. e4e2ac87-03d7-421f-bf38-cd7647fa06aa.dmp
  10. Archangel
    A softer shadow on the text ...
  11. Archangel
    Strangely a crash dump is produced when closing Affinity Publisher. Although it doesn't interfere with saving the document it seems. So I have no idea what is going on. 74860e69-70f1-49e4-9757-98c9d26438de.dmp
  12. Archangel
    This is a terse satirical poem critiquing the inhumanity of applying certain political policies and the effects on some of the most vulnerable. This was created in Affinity Publisher and the graphic created in Affinity Photo using Photo Reactor Player. 8-bit PNG.
  13. Archangel
    Okay, This is an interesting "bug". Creating this image Affinity Publisher via the export function shows very different outputs. For some reason the background filled rectangle gets squished in the PDF export but not in JPG or PNG format. The Parchment effect looks very odd with added transparency above and below. Very weird. Printout works fine as does export to PDF flattened. Package included for examination. I am using Affinity Publisher 2.5 on Windows 10. This should maybe go in the bugs section for Windows. You can't reform.pdf Reform Welfare.zip
  14. Archangel
    I thought I was reading a Ronnie Barker style monologue. Very well done.
  15. Archangel
    And now a painting of the photograph in the style of Monet.
  16. Archangel
    Each to their own I guess. For natural imagery, I tend to agree with you. However, HDR always seems like the effect of colour in the film version of the Wizard of Oz. Like reality enhanced to be more vivid and real. In other words, experiencing a sense of wonder as the dull becomes multifaceted and beautifully defined.
  17. Archangel
    The photo mastered version with Photo Reactors Dramatic Sky plugin invoked.
  18. Archangel
    The HDR effect is kind of unreal. That's the point. A more vivid image gives a sort of drug-induced perceptive effect. The first photo is untouched but contains quantization artefacts which show up when manipulating the colours and contrast. The middle one is perhaps the best compromise.
  19. Archangel
    Fantastic artwork sir.
  20. Archangel
    Using a royalty-free image of a boat by the lake, I decided to see if I could enhance the image using the Reactor Player plugin and G'MIC plugins to remove artefacts and tweak the colours. So, using a combination of G'MIC's compression blur, unquantize, and JPEG smooth, bilateral blur; Reactor player's HDR Plugin, Photo Mastering, and SP Sharpen, I managed the following. First is the original image, Second the Photo Mastered effect, and third is the HDR pseudo enhancement.
  21. Archangel
    Further to this conversation you might find this helpful.
  22. Archangel
    Another free option to try a full software removal is: https://www.ashampoo.com/en-us/uninstaller-free or its paid version ... https://www.ashampoo.com/en-gb/uninstaller
  23. Archangel
    Try Repair in place to reinstall Windows files without losing apps or data.
  24. Archangel
    Failing that Windows 11 allows restoring your system while keeping your apps intact in its latest version. So it will be easier to remedy than it would on Windows 10. Hopefully, you made a system recovery drive as well, just in case.
  25. Archangel
    If you used Revo to remove the software then I believe it makes a backup of its changes using system restore and via another method. Any registry changes can be reversed.
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