William Overington

Thank you. William

The 'no requirement' could be regarded as at two levels. Firstly, nobody is required to produce or post anything at all. Secondly, it is the case that although I started this thread, it is not my thread, so if people choose to post pictures at whatever size then I suppose that the rules of the forum are that such is allowed as I am not allowed to require a size. The fact of the matter though is that I am trying to achieve a result of an art show of work produced by people using Affinity apps. No requirement to be a professional artist, no requirement to be in some age group, no requirement to be able to travel, just art by people who use Affinity apps, at whatever level of ability. There is a non-zero probability of the art show happening. Perhaps not very much above a zero probability, but not actually zero probability. So I have tried to make the process of achieving the result of an art show of work produced by people using Affinity apps as straightforward as I can - it will still be a big task to achieve the result, but I am trying to remove as many obstacles as I can. I have found that giclée prints are available in many sizes yet that framed giclée prints, where the framing is provided at the printers and a framed print can be sent direct to somewhere, are available in a much smaller number of sizes. So, I specified artwork for this hoped-for art show to be at a size for which the framed print facility is available. I am thinking of natural wood frames. A collection of pictures at various levels of artistic ability each produced using one or more Affinity apps and each in a natural wood frame. Hopefully there would be still photographs and a video of the exhibition. I am not intending this to be an art show where someone sits deciding what will be accepted, in fact quite the opposite. I accept that maybe nobody will be interested, in which case, c'est la vie and this thread will just drift into the archives. Yet if you are interested, please do not let any lack of experience of art cause you to feel that you cannot participate, because you can. If you are stuck, just ask. Though I am not a professional artist, yet maybe somebody will advise. This thread just needs to get going, and if it does, then maybe the art show will happen. William

Please produce pictures as 400 millimetres by 300 millimetres with a 3 millimetre bleed at each edge at 300 dots per inch. Landscape orientation or Portrait orientation as you choose. Please post a png of 590 pixels by 443 pixels in the Pictures of An Art Show that may never happen thread. Any topic of your choice, provided that the picture is not unsuitable for viewing by a family audience. I will seek sponsorship for the Art Show and a gallery for it to be exhibted. I am thinking that artwork files would be sent directly to the art printer and framed giclée prints would be sent directly to the gallery by the art printer. Yes, the Art show that may never happen may never happen, but that is not a certainty at this time. William

This is interesting. Oxford spelling - Wikipedia William

Someone might have miskeyed and got "one could introducer ectangles into the design" in the document. Interestingly, in keying the above line into this forum post both miskeyed and ectangles become underlined in some red waves but introducer does not. William

In what spell checkers often term as "British English" it is 'organisation'. However, the -ize ending that American English uses is a retention of the earlier English form that people took with them when moved from England centuries ago, before in England it was influenced by French. The Oxford English Dictionary tends to use the -ize ending for many (ise/ize) words, but it is not a simple matter. It tends to be influenced by how the word came to be in the English language. There is something about whether it came from classical Greek. However, the Oxford English Dictionary reports usage by people, not prescribing nor proscribing usage. William

I think that I might have some time ago done this, but I cannot remember how. I have tried looking in the help facility but I do not know how to phrase the question. Basically I want to draw a shape using the Rectangle Tool or the Circle Tool or some other tool, convert to curves then change the stroke from a line to being as if it had been painted with a Watercolour brush of my choice. Can this be done and if so how please? I am using Version 1 of Affinity Designer. William

For some unknown reason, a copy and paste works sometimes but not others. The glyphs can be obtained from the Glyph Browser in Affinity Designer in the Private Use Area but that is easier said than done as the glyphs are displayed tiny. William

I do not know if these will be of any interest to you, but there are some stand-alone flourishes available in my Sonnet Calligraphic 047 font. https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?p=17690#p17690 To try to make using them as straightforward as possible I have made a PDF document as a typecase. If you want to use them please install the font and set up a document to be using the Sonnet Calligraphic 047 font where you want the flourish, then copy from the PDF document and paste into your document. William typecase_Sonnet_Calligraphic_047_flourishes.pdf

I was just trying to suggest a layout, that was my objective. But you are right, I got it muddled. > we teach 3D printing and the Cricut machine I took that as one topic not two. Oh dear! William

I too am a hobbyist. To start, I think it would be a good idea to state the size of the poster. Then consider at what distance you want people to notice it, read at least one or two or a few words so that they are likely to move closer to the poster to read what is in smaller type. Please remember that eyesight varies among people and that some people are wearing glasses and if your lettering is too small then people may have a problem reading it standing by it rather than sat down reading a leaflet. If the poster is to be indoors at the library, perhaps on a noticeboard, maybe you might consider having a pile of leaflets available at the enquiry desk, then the poster could have something like There is a free leaflet available at teh reception desk with further details. What the "one or two or a few words" are in something to consider. Maybe FREE COURSE will get people to read the poster. Or maybe 3D PRINTING text text text etc etc FREE COURSE might be more effective. What information do you want the poster to convey. When I first saw your post I had never heard of a Cricut machine. Maybe a lot of people who see your poster will not have heard of it either. So maybe somewhere you need to include A Cricut machine is (then concisely say what it is, in general terms) What software are you using? William

The sequence of events was as follows. I decided to follow up on the suggestion that had been made. I copied the post in which that suggestion appeared and produced the following four line prompt for Bing Chat AI. How do I reduce the number of posts needed to say something? So I can have one post instead of four? To take up less room on the forum's page? Could the Enter key be involved? The AI system produced a response. With my research on using the Bing Chat AI system, I write the prompt in a WordPad file at 18 point, saving the file as a record of what has happened, sometimes putting comments of my own that are not input into the AI system between square brackets. Then I copy and paste to Bing Chat AI, where it is displayed in a smaller size. Text response from Bing Chat AI is also in that smaller size, so I do a copy and paste to the WordPad file so that I can read the response more easily and also I have a record of the response. For whatever reason, some things like numbered lists and bold type do not get copied across. There are not usually numbered lists or bold type so not a usual problem. Sometimes the result is in a panel. For example, if I ask for a poem, there might be a preamble about Here is your poem or the like and the poem in a panel, that formatting not copying across to WordPad. So I just got the plain text, which is what is probably what I posted first off. I then sort of took in that the original list was numbered and there were bold headings, so I edited the post to give a more accurate impression of what Bing Chat AI had generated. Even so, I think that the four numbered paragraphs might have been on a panel with the two lines at the start and the final line not on the panel. Sometimes a response offers some web links at the end of the response, these are often very useful. Please note that this request to Bing Chat AI was one suggested to me that I try, so I did. It all has something to do with Carriage Returns, Line Feeds, and the two together, and however the software package that one is using has been programmed to react when it meets them. I first met Carriage Return and Line Feed in the 1960s when using five track paper tape on a teleprinter to program an Elliott 803B using the ALGOL 60 computer language. Carriage Return returned the carriage without going to a new line. Line Feed took one to the next line. That was it. I know from experience that copying from, say, text drafted in WordPad as paragraphs can end with paragraphs concatenated in the webmail system. So I either have to go through the email adding blank lines between paragraphs, or "double paragraph" the text in WordPad when drafting the text. 😁 The computer output punched paper tape. The computer operators had a supply of rolls of paper tape in various colours (light green, pink, yellow, pale blue, white) and when a new roll of tape was needed they just chose one as they chose at the time. William

Sent by Copilot: Certainly! To reduce the number of posts and keep your content concise, you can follow these tips: 1. Use Paragraphs: Instead of creating separate posts for related information, use paragraphs within a single post. Pressing the “Enter” key will create a new line within the same post, allowing you to organize your thoughts without cluttering the forum. 2. Bullet Points or Numbered Lists: If you have multiple points to make, consider using bullet points or numbered lists. This way, you can convey information succinctly without creating separate posts for each item. 3. Edit Your Content: Before posting, review your message and remove any unnecessary details. Focus on the essential information you want to share. 4. Reply to Your Own Post: If you need to add more information later, reply to your original post rather than creating a new one. This keeps the discussion in one thread. Remember, the “Enter” key is your friend for formatting within a single post! 😊

Alright, I'll try that. The results could be interesting. William

The sonnet it wrote, the one that mentions Lucy, is good. William

It also produced surprising and interesting images when asked to produce an original painting and then given a sentence in Welsh, as it seems that it probably first tried to translate into English and mistranslated some of the words. William

But it did produce, upon my request, a picture in the style of Claude Monet of a lady in a long green dress feeding a stegosaurus in a garden with a pond with waterlilies in flower. In fact, in my opinion, a lovely picture, though I am not expert in art. William

One thing some of us tried on another website was to ask Bing Chat AI to produce a painting that includes a gibbous moon. It would not do that. When asked, it correctly stated the meaning of the word gibbous but still did not apply that to the picture, there was no linking through to the picture generating. Similarly when asked about the 1813 locomotive Puffing Billy it produced details including displaying an existing picture yet would not produce a painting of Puffing Billy, producing pictures of locomotives of types from around fifty or more years later. William

Well, yes it can. But what it represents may be excellent, rubbish, or even self-contradictory. For an example of self-contradiction, asking Bing Chat Ai to produce a nineteen line poem, it purported to do so, but the poem produced was not nineteen lines. Bing Chat AI has produced for me some really beautiful images, but it also has produced some rubbish. It is me who has chosen with which to go forward, of which to buy a print and frame it. William

@Rickertmork Thank you. Do you let, or need to have, each colour dry before the next one is used? William

The place where Leonardo lived when he was in France is now a museum and park. Welcome to the Château du Clos Lucé - The Clos Lucé (vinci-closluce.com) It also features on Google street view. Both in the building and in the park. William