William Overington

As it happens the physical original of the first image fell on the floor this morning. But I can reconstruct it in its tray using the electronic version as a guide. William

No it is not. That is a retrospective ruling made after I posted today. I was trying to abide by your ruling. And they were unfair because the rule that I was purported to have broken had not been stated at the time when I posted. I had no idea that I was not allowed to draw the attention of Ash and Patrick Connor to my post. Patrick Connor started this thread and gave it the title AI discussion. Management must manage, I consider it unfair that rules are made up and applied retrospectively. William

Yesterday I tried experimenting with Bing Chat AI when prompted with poems that are written using localizable sentences. In case some readers might be interested, here is a link. Bing Chat AI and a poem written using localizable sentences (Page 1) — Art & Literature — Alfred's Serif Users' Forums (punster.me) William

Pledge 4 uses the word "future". it does not use the word "development". Well, seeing your comment, I ran the video again, and yes, I can just about make them out, knowing what they are already from using the software. But I had not noticed them before, all I noticed was the rapidly moving images. William

Pledge 4 wants ideas and feedback. So I posted feedback about the advertising of Affinity products. So in the middle of gentle music is this advertising video. Do those pictures actually represent use of an Affinity product? William

Well, there could be a new ambience to how things are done, seizing the opportunity that the new ownership could bring. Or that opportunity could be grumbled away. William

Because such pictures are usually of a trout removed from its habitat and harmed. If you have in mind a picture of the trout swimming in clear water then fine. William

I was playing the My Mix video sequence on YouTube while eating breakfast. An advert for Affinity played. "Hey Hey" music and fast moving images, not at all like the ambience when I am using Affinity products. Perhaps there could be an advert of someone gently painting a landscape while music like this is playing. William

Well, I did the search but have not found out. William

What problems please? I either never knew of that sharing or I have forgotten. William

Yet if Canva Affinity chose to do that, then that would be a significant change. A press release about it might well get lots of good publicity and that might help the business. It would put Canva Affinity into a leading league of its own and Canva Affinity could lead with innovation and development in the industry sector. William

Well, no matter how willing they are to be guided by our ideas and feedback, they cannot be guided by our ideas and feedback if we don't provide them with any ideas and feedback. William

Well, the fact of the matter is that we have been able to discuss the situation in this thread. In the company's user forum. But we can do more. For example we can do things like suggest that the Managing Director might please consider posting a statement each week about "this week's progress". And others could comment that each week is a bit too much to ask, but a monthly update posted on the last working day of the month might be a better thing to suggest. And so on, which is what Pledge 4 seems to suggest is wanted from us. William

Thank you. Pressing TAB worked. All of the "stuff" became displayed. William

I just started Affinity Publisher, version 1, (I only have version 1), not having used it for a long time and the display only has the menu bar across the top, when I was expecting lots of "stuff" at both sides and perhaps along the top beneath the menu bar. Does anyone recognize what has happened please? Can I reset it or something? William

Maybe off-topic but if readers would like to have and use a copy, free, of a font that I made that was last updated in 2012 here is a link. https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?p=17690#p17690 The font is a TrueType font, no OpenType features in it. There are lots of alternate glyphs, each encoded with a code point in the plane 0 Private Use Area. In the font I experimented as to how far I could get with really swash glyphs. The link is to the most recent post in the thread. The thread has lots of posts and some illustrations of what can be produced using the font. The illustrations were made with PagePlus. Here is one of them. William

There could possibly be issues if the glyphs are not mapped to code points. They would only then be accessible by using an OpenType effect. I do not know to what extent every possible OpenType feature that could be being applied in the font is available for use in Affinity products. It might be that every OpenType effect that is used in the font is supported in Affinity products, but it depends on what the font designer(s) have used in the font and whether what is used is supported by Affinity products. William

Quite possibly. No. William

I am not sure at present. Oh, I thought that the Tutorials part was for listing the tutorials available, not for discussion. I was just posting a general observation as general feedback. William

I have tried full screen. William

I am not complaining. I accept that some people may well find the videos very helpful. I was just saying my point of view as feedback. William

I hope that this post does not annoy some people but I wonder if I may express my point of view about training videos please. I have only tried to watch a few and so maybe there are some that are different from those that I have seen. Basically I have given up on them as I find the ones that I have tried to watch unfollowable to me. They seem to be images of the full screen, usually the black background version whereas I use the light grey version that has black lettering, but people seem to rush the pointer over the menu and click click click quickly. To me, and I realize that I might be criticised for stating this opinion, but the videos that I have seen seem as if answering an examination question, where the audience (that is, the examiner) already knows the answer and the author of the video is trying to prove to the examiner that the author of the video knows what to do, rather than trying to teach people who do not already know the answer. For me, not already knowing the answer and trying to learn, the presentation is too fast and too tiny and does not explain what is being done. Can there be frames, on screen for long enough to read it and take it in, in a larger size of type please, with zoomed in views of menus showing what to click. I hope that this is useful feedback and that this can be discussed please? William