William Overington
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10 hours ago, Alfred said:
So, something for pescatarians (although not if they’re keeping kosher!) but nothing for vegetarians. Presumably no one complained.
The artwork said "including Vegan", so maybe nobody wanted vegan.
William
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11 hours ago, pioneer said:
Cheeseburger-n-chips
What exactly is in a cheeseburger please?
(I know, I know!) What I mean is, what is in it that distinguishes it from just being a lump of cheese?
William
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Would it be a good idea for Canva Affinity to join Unicode Inc. as a full member?
https://home.unicode.org/membership/members/
Would the publicity value alone be worth the money?
William
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May I express a concern about something that happens, yet does not always happen, and which, if abolished by a new policy of how to approach things might be beneficial to Affinity?
If I remember correctly, when QR codes were introduced into PagePlus, only a selection of popular ways of generating a QR code were included. Sort of, only a bit, just the popular, as if oh dear we can't do more than the popular.
Yet when OpenType capability appeared in PagePlus in version X5 it was, as far as I am aware, comprehensively and superbly done.
So now that QR code generation is being introduced into Affinity (which products?) how will it be done, comprehensive or "just the popular"? Which way that goes I think will be indicative of the thinking not just on that feature as Affinity goes forward under Canva ownership. Is the culture to do just enough to tick a few popular boxes or is the culture to go the extra light year and become the market leader with features that others do not have? Are opportunities to be grumbled away because they have not yet been done by an American company? Affinity needs to lead, not just try to catch up.
William
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Here is a link to a song that I wrote that involves food.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_second_novel_chapter_039.pdf
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/song1015.htm
William
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1 hour ago, debraspicher said:
Something tells me you've become all too accustomed to having your suggestions dismissed. (Playfully joking here, not at all meant to be snark)
Yes, you are right.
Some people make statements as if they are fact, then if it turns out that it is not always true, they start waffling about "well, in ninety-nine per cent of cases" and so on.
I have no experience of Adobe products. I notice lots of posts in these forums mention Adobe products.
Why do so many people assume that Canva wants to compete with Adobe?
I remember one famous female country music singer said to other female country music singers that there is enough for all of us.
I am reminded that years ago i bought a book that is a collection of early science fiction stories from the late 1800s to early 1900s. The title is Rivals of H. G. Wells. Why Rivals? If I write a science fiction novel and publish it, I am not a rival of some other science fiction writer, it is just that I wrote a science fiction novel.
Would you like to read it ... please?
There is rather a lot so if you just want to dip in, Chapters 5 and 34 are good chapters to do that.
Oh, and Chapter 21.
But the thing is, some people might start on about the novel just being fanciful and unrealistic, but if they say that before having read the whole novel ... well!
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/novel_plus.htm
One of my inventions was particularly successful. Something I devised and for which I coined a new word to describe it and after a while, I wrote a letter to the editor of a trade magazine about it and the letter was published, with the new word in it, openly stating that was what I called it. Well, there was a reply criticising the idea yet using the word that I had coined and the heading of that letter had the word that I had coined in it. One thing followed another and I was invited to jointly author a paper for an international conference of which I had not previously known about and there I saw my invention working. And the word I coined is now in the Oxford English Dictionary and the etymology of the word lists my letter to the editor of the trade magazine as the first use in print of the word that I coined.
William
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On 4/19/2024 at 4:03 PM, Aurea Ratio said:
Serif is working on a modern version of Fonthill Abbey, but if they don't seriously slow down and correct mistakes, architecture, and refactor a lot, I now truly understand how big the problem is after trying the line width tool in the beta of 2.5.
Beauvais Cathedral fell down twice, but please look at it now on Google street view.
So, keeping at it can get a result.
William
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15 minutes ago, debraspicher said:
I don't see how Canva can change their thinking that dramatically... horse to water, etc.
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
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@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
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1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:
Try the font Segoe UI Symbol, which has at least the first 2 in that chart.
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
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20 hours ago, JGD said:
Interesting as this feature may sound, I highly doubt it will ever be available. It's extremely niche, and might result in quality control issues if lower quality, user-made localisation files ended up on the web. Also, with Affinity potentially becoming bigger, hiring more people for their localisation efforts would render said feature redundant for a lot of communities.
And, if I may say so myself as someone from a minority community of one of top languages globally (Portuguese from Portugal, not Brazilian Portuguese), while it saddens me to see the technical design and typography jargon in pt-PT wither away (I do fight against that by recommending technical dictionaries to my students, mind you), I don't see people defaulting to English on technical software as that dire of an issue when it comes to serving a global market (RTL and Indic script support, on the other hand…). These apps' UIs are usually very sparse on text, and YouTube and the web are chock-full of tutorials using the English terminology anyway. My €0,02.
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
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1 hour ago, Alfred said:
Given that you mean
it seems unsurprising to me that you didn’t learn things like ‘basic chemistry’ terminology.
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
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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.
17 hours ago, JGD said:Interesting as this feature may sound, I highly doubt it will ever be available. It's extremely niche, and might result in quality control issues if lower quality, user-made localisation files ended up on the web. Also, with Affinity potentially becoming bigger, hiring more people for their localisation efforts would render said feature redundant for a lot of communities.
The localization files could be encrypted so that only official Affinity localization files would work.
There is a whole thread about this topic.
William
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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
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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
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25 minutes ago, JGD said:
..., while it saddens me to see the technical design and typography jargon in pt-PT wither away (I do fight against that by recommending technical dictionaries to my students, mind you), ...
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.
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May i refer to as thread that I started in the Share your work forum please?
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
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Are Affinity programs .exe files?
William
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What, even though I have unlocked the S from a Windows 11 S system that was on this computer when purchased new?
William
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@Alfred Does the shear need to be done such that the feet are unaffected?
William
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4 minutes ago, Alfred said:
Are you perhaps referring to the E-13B MICR symbols?
No. I am referring to the OCR A symbols.
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-15.0/U150-2440.pdf
William
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23 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Please show some specific characters you need.
The top six characters in the column in the following document.
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-15.0/U150-2440.pdf
26 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:And, again, what font are you using?
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
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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
Typography Dialog turned into a Panel
in 2.5 Beta New Features and Improvements
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I opine that it is always better to have a definitive statement that something that could have content in it is, in fact, in this particular case empty, rather than no comment at all. Otherwise one cannot be congruently certain of what is the situation.
William