William Overington

Will the Canva Affinity management team consider please stating a Pledge to not include any AI in Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and if Canva Affinity introduces any AI into Affinity that it is done in separate products that can be accessed from Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo. This would keep any AI features entirely separate and would provide provenance for artists who would be required by their clients to guarantee that AI has not been involved in the production of their artwork, required for both artistic and legal reasons. Making such a pledge now would provide great reassurance to those who would welcome such reassurance, yet not restrict the possibility of providing AI features for those who would like to have them available. Indeed, some artists might choose to use AI in some projects yet not in others. I write to ask about this as a result of a post in another thread, my reply and the reply by @Alfred to my reply, and my reply to that post.

Well, @Alfred I consider that my proposed solution is the better solution. I shall try to start a thread in the Feedback forum to ask Canva Affinity to consider please a Pledge to not include any AI in Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and if Canva Affinity introduces any AI into Affinity that it is done in separate products. Clearly the Affinity team are employed so that effort can be made to produce and maintain Affinity products. Whether it is a niche market or not I do not know. If Affinity does nothing at all about AI then it could be seen s a wonderful situation by some artists, or it could be that Affinity products would be seen by many people as severely lacking in by that time up to date facilities. I cannot say which way it will go. I cannot do it myself so I am not going to purport how much effort separate products would take as compared with full integration into existing products. But is the way to start to make a copy of the source code of each of Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo and go from there? William

Welcome to the forums. Affinity has three programs at present, which one can use separately, or linked. So if Affinity were to have AI features, and it is a big IF, it seems to me, on the face of it, but I am not expert in AI, or Affinity products, that there could be two additional, separate products, Affinity Adjustment AI and Affinity Generative AI. That way, those people who wanted to use AI could do so, and those people who want nothing to do with AI would be able to avoid it and also not pay for the features either. William

It was about being out of work, not knowing when, or if, one could get another job. Applying for anything one thinks one can do. Trying to grasp at opportunities that are not really there. that seem to be a possibility but never realistically are. Being enthusiastic about the possibility of an art show as in the two threads, one in the Feedback forum and one in the Share your work forum met with no enthusiasm, no interest. So is it me grasping at a straw? Or has the Affinity team not yet considered the suggestion and no decision made yet? Looking back I suppose it is almost unbelievable that in 1977 I was allowed to broadcast some software on a teletext page. That was, at the time, far more of an amazing thing to ask. William

Altered as requested. But has it lost the sense of anxiety of the original? William

Two threads about AI were started recently and were locked with the posters directed to existing AI threads. For the content of those two threads, here are links. These links included here as just a matter of archiving. William

When you state "we" ... ?

Well, as a result of your suggestion, I have written a story. -- It was a summer morning when at around half past eight several cars arrived at the village hall. People got out of the cars, they all knew each other well as they all worked together at a local software company. Already at the village hall, waiting for them to arrive, is Mrs Jones, the Secretary of the Village Hall Committee, ready to welcome them and assist them in finding their way around. From the boots of cars, and the rear seats of cars, framed pictures were carefully carried into the village hall. The people looked at the various tables and chairs in the function room where the art show is due to take place and quickly decided how to set them out around the room so that the pictures could be set out on them. After a time all was ready for the art show opening, due to happen at ten o'clock. So now is the time to start making a video of the art show, before the visitors - if indeed any - arrive. Entry is free and a colourful trifold brochure has been sent to various publications together with a letter inviting them to send people to view the art show and perhaps choose to write about it in their publication. But will anyone come? Ten o'clock arrives and there is no queue. The people are a bit concerned - is this going to be it? It is 10:15 and a lady arrives. "I saw your advertisement in our Village News magazine, so I've come along - am I the first?" "Indeed yes," replies a lady, "Would you like me to show you around?" "That's kind of you - but can we meet up later for a chat perhaps, I'd like to just go and form my own impressions of the pictures if that's alright." "Yes, certainly." After a while a few more visitors arrive. It is just after 2 pm when a lady arrives, and announces that she is from Arts Magazine and the Editor received the invitation and asked her to visit an write an article for the magazine. She adds that she started last week, having finished at University a few weeks ago. "So, it looks like we might get some publicity as a result of this art show. Arts Magazine is a well-regarded, serious publication, with quite a good circulation for that type of publication." As the afternoon progresses more visitors arrive, it is an afternoon out. The art show is busy, people are asking the staff about the software products used to produce the art.

Well, it is like the space below a picture in a picture frame should be taller than the space above the picture. William

Other people may take a different approach, but for doing something like this, and for many other things, I set the units used in the document as pixels, and I position items using the Transform panel, using whole numbers of pixels for the location and the size of each item. For a project such as this, where centring and symmetry are important, I set the place from which measurement takes place as the centre point in the picture of nine points in 3 rows of 3 columns that is on the left side of the transform panel. Thus, set like that, if the items have the same setting for X and Y then they are located symmetrically together. I made the button in Affinity Designer using two items, first a text frame (NOT an Artistic text frame) and after I had got the text as I wanted it in the text frame, a rounded rectangle drawn using the Rounded Rectangle Tool. Then afterwards use Layer Arrange to send the rounded rectangle to the back. When starting an item, text frame or whatever, first draw it any size just to get it started, then set the position and the height and the width in pixels using the transform panel. I appreciate that this may be regarded by some people as very mathematical and even the geek approach, but it works and is a straightforward way to get good results. I have no idea at this time whether you can do some of these things at present. If not, please say, I have set the follow for this thread, and I will try to help you get a good result. William

Is this the sort of button you are wanting to produce, maybe different size, different wording, different font, different colours, but this sort of thing?

I have altered my previous post as I may have been mistaken. William

Oh, as if the forum software always tries to illustrate a thread with a picture if it can. William

@G13RL I don't understand what you mean by suggesting that I "can still crack down on the forums". But anyway, this is England. People do sometimes post in languages other than English in these forums. Also, when it is clear that someone is trying their best to write in English but has not quite got it right, people are very helpful. So if you would like to write in French in this forum, Bonjour. William

I don't know why it put the picture there. The picture is within the thread, but not at the start. William

Also the following. William

I deliberately used "of" rather than "or" as it is a list of possibilities, not necessarily one or the other. Yes, a dynamic change can be better than a static one. Well, the idea is that people staying for a reasonable time could observe more pictures and observe the process of the changeover. William

If the art show that I suggest takes place, should there be "winners", should there be people "judging" which (in their opinion) is the BEST? Or should the art show just present pictures produced using Affinity products? Should there be selection from the pictures that people offer (I have not used the word 'submit' deliberately) or should everything offered, subject only for taste and decency, be shown? If there are more pictures than can be accommodated, should there be either, or both, of a rolling electronic display, of a physical dynamic changing of the pictures in one part of the exhibition every hour? As in page 2 of this chapter of my first novel, the PDF document produced using Serif PagePlus. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_chapter_047.pdf William

@PaoloT Wow, thank you, Paolo. William

I have written a poem about the possibility, composed directly into an A4 Affinity Publisher document, a png graphic exported, and added into the Share your work thread. William

I am still wondering about publicly perform ? William

Well, the idea is for the Affinity team to run it to showcase the work that can be produced using Affinity products. William

Some threads from long ago in another forum, one by a small business in The Netherlands. Missing Characters - Font Forum (high-logic.com) "Missing" symbols - pls help - Font Forum (high-logic.com) William