William Overington

They could try allowing and encouraging staff to try to get a Master degree for their research work. A great incentive for those of the staff who would regard that as a marvellous opportunity and a great opportunity for Canva to benefit from the results of those Master level studies. I hope that nobody dismisses this suggestion on the basis of not understanding that some universities allow research for a Master degree to be carried out in an industrial setting with only occasional visits to the university. Two supervisors, one in the workplace, a member of the business's staff, and one at the university. William

@pioneer Hi, I just realized, the event was due to take place eight days ago. How did it go please? How was the food? William

All six are there, and I found them easily as Affinity Designer allows one to select the Unicode section. They are thinner though, so as a first try I have them at 96 point rather than the 72 point of the other characters. I tried a faux bold but I am not sure whether that has worked. I am wondering if I can do a convert to curves and then thicken the curves. Anyway, this is what I have got so far. William

Well, if you want to have a go, you could localize the test file in the following post into Portuguese and post it in that thread. Then that would make a bit of progress and maybe the Affinity team might, just might, try a few tests and use Portuguese for the tests. William

Well, fine, unsurprising, but that is just because of the two cultures thing that C P Snow wrote about. If the culture in this country were different, maybe chapter 10, say, of the text book learning some French would have had the topic of adding Sodium Carbonate solution to Copper Sulphate solution in a test tube and using a filter paper and a glass funnel and a beaker. So integrating what we did in chemistry class as a practical with our knowledge of how to express things in French. I appreciate that at the café is important but all the examples were sort of arts based, did we have the same text book? I remember Le prestidigitateur. When I was young I would have just loved to have tried using Affinity products using the French versions once I had got used to using the English versions. William

Replying to my earlier comment that was as follows. Alright, a localizable version of each of the Affinity programs such that the localization of the menus is using an external localization file. The localization files could be encrypted so that only official Affinity localization files would work. There is a whole thread about this topic. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/202458-a-localizable-version-of-each-of-the-affinity-programs-such-that-the-localization-of-the-menus-is-using-an-external-localization-file/#comment-1203861 William

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