William Overington

Some men make that mistake. It is not their decision, whether by fighting or otherwise, as to whom the lady chooses. Perhaps she will choose someone else, perhaps the geek who likes drawing polar curves such as Freeth's nephroid, or maybe she just is not interested at all. William

Could you have another character added in, say, a lady, and she says that if they stop arguing and both work together to learn desktop publishing and become artists then that would be better for them as they grow older. William

TOMATO SAUCE IS BEST ON CHIPS! NO, BROWN SAUCE IS BEST ON CHIPS! Suggested caption for the above image -- When shadow was mentioned, I thought of it as going from the feet and then to the right and up at about 30 degrees to the horizontal, not forward like that. William

Yes, (amongst other subjects) I studied French and I studied Chemistry, yet alas there was nothing about even basic chemistry in my learning of French. William PS When i refer to "my learning of French" I mean my learning of just some French at a general education level.

May i refer to as thread that I started in the Share your work forum please? https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/169391-language-independent-signs-for-art-galleries/ Will the QR code system that Affinity has implemented allow production of a QR code of text such as those that I produced at another website for use in those signs? If not, can provision for a QR code of text become included please? William

Are Affinity programs .exe files? William

What, even though I have unlocked the S from a Windows 11 S system that was on this computer when purchased new? William

@Alfred Does the shear need to be done such that the feet are unaffected? William

No. I am referring to the OCR A symbols. https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-15.0/U150-2440.pdf William

The top six characters in the column in the following document. https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-15.0/U150-2440.pdf OCR A extended which I found on this computer recently. It is not listed on the following page. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/windows_11_font_list I have not used this computer much since I got it so I don't know at present how that font arrived on my computer. William

The font that I have has lots of accented characters but does not have the special OCR A characters as in the following document. Optical Character Recognition (Unicode block) - Wikipedia The Unicode Standard, Version 15.0 I am hoping to learn how those special characters are used. William

Alas, the font that I am using does not have the special OCR A symbols. William

Are they in dispute about which type of sauce is best on chips? William

It may help to know that Affinity uses the term shear rather than skew for the effect. Searching for skew in Affinity Designer gives a few results but searching for shear gives more. My comments based on version 1. I do not know about version 2. William

I have now found this wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Character_Recognition_(Unicode_block) So maybe I need a second version of the OCR A keyboard that includes them. Also, I need to try to learn, maybe one of those characters is a sort of "relevant space indicating character" or might sometimes be used as one and an actual blank area produced as a space on a computer is skipped over as if blank paper tape. Oh the memories of paper tape, the change of mood when a new roll of a different colour was loaded and output began. William

Is your space bar a vegetable or an alien spacecraft out of Star Trek? Or a bit of both? William

Well, I wondered about whether OCR A messages actually include spaces. I tried to think of how I would have an OCR A space as a visible entity. Should it be no bigger than the bounding box of an OCR A character? Since producing the artwork I have found the following web page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A I have been trying to think of how an OCR A keyboard could be used for some purpose. I am thinking of some way for a human to send a message to a computer system either through a window or over a video link or across a difference in electrical voltage. Perhaps by having the OCR keyboard printed onto art quality tracing paper and shining a light behind the character that one wishes to send. William

The original artwork is A3 landscape, produced using Affinity Designer. William

@Return Well, the issue was raised and I would like to know what @Aurea Ratio means by serious users and serious purposes. I am retired and my use of Affinity products is (thus far) only at a basic level, usually at just using Affinity Designer to produce PDF documents to put on the web or to use to get an A3 print, and jpg files so as to get what are called custom photo greetings cards using a jpg file containing an image that is not usually a photograph. Yet having Affinity products available to me so that I can do those things is very helpful to me, notwithstanding that what I produce is only of interest to me and a few others. William

Well, you wanted a discussion forum for for serious customers who use the software for serious purposes. Such a forum is not immediately available, but I started this thread in the hope that it would be as good as could be got at the present time. So here is your opportunity to state clearly and directly what you mean by serious customers and serious purposes. An opportunity that can be seized if you want to do that. If that post is made and then there is discussion then it might one day lead to the establishment of the forum that you want. Maybe, maybe not. Is it worth a try? William

So perhaps the way forward would be for one or two people at Affinity to try to start with a copy of the source code of Affinity Designer and try to produce a version - a sort of software maquette - that will do the localization effect on just three menu items, so that the idea can be seen in action. The resulting demonstration could be inspiring. Is that possible please? William

Well yes, but ideas are being sought and I have suggested one. If my idea could be got working there could be versions of Affinity programs in hundreds of languages. The incremental cost of each additional language being relatively low. William

Well, as I wrote before, I don't know whether Pledge 4 is significantly different from what happened previously or not. As far as I am aware, there is no information published to customers pursuant to Pledge 4 as to what is the situation over assessment of ideas and feedback about suggested ideas now that Affinity is owned by Canva. I am hoping that [edited] will explain what assessment process will be used. The purchase of Affinity by Canva is a big event, so maybe the situation will change, or maybe the idea is to keep everything as it was lest changing anything spoils what has been bought. William

Well, then substantial changes could be made to a copy of the source code to get what I have suggested to work, without in any way altering the basic versions at all. I have not suggested that it could all be done in half an hour. With innovation I have found that one needs to be willing to try something even if it might appear pointless to do, because it can often unexpectedly lead to something good. Many people try to extrapolate from the known into the unknown on an opinion without actually testing whether their assumptions are correct. Pledge 4 is a new beginning. It is not a good idea to grumble away that wonderful opportunity. Well, I don't know whether Pledge 4 is significantly different from what happened previously. I am hoping that [edited] will say how in the new Canva era ideas will be assessed and whether feedback will be provided by private email to those who have suggested ideas. It does not need to be the old no comment secretive assessment process from times gone by, Affinity could seize the great opportunity of Pledge 4 to go forward splendidly. I hope that the opportunity is not grumbled away. William

I am always wary when someone purports obvious reasons without stating what are any of those purportedly obvious reasons that are purported to exist. Pledge 4 has been issued as a result of discussions involving Canva, so it is a new era for Affinity as Canva were not, as far as I am aware, previously involved in the management of Affinity activity. William