William Overington
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I have just tested the svg and it came out rather larger. Rather splendid.
William
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11 minutes ago, Alfred said:
It would be good if the Affinity apps had something similar. Perhaps you could export the shape to SVG so that Affinity users would have a vector version to work with (instead of just a PNG image).
Please find attached an svg of the white-filled wider-than-high spiral that I generated in PagePlus X7 for the picture. Please say if something different is wanted as well.
11 minutes ago, Alfred said:Did the border line initially help in some way, William, or was it simply that you didn’t think about it at the time and then removed it when you saw that it wasn’t needed?
I needed the line because otherwise I would not be aware of whether the spiral was being drawn. I needed to use one of the Quickshape adjustment handles to reduce the swirliness.
William
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Are you aware of the original song about the painting?
William
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13 minutes ago, Alfred said:
Bring on the empty chairs!
Yes ... but that is not the song that relates to the original painting.
William
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15 minutes ago, Alfred said:
Spoiler alert!
That is the second song.
William
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4 minutes ago, Hens said:
Which inspired another great song 😉
Oh, a second song. I was not aware of that. Off to have a search then.
William
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Just now, Hens said:
Also a nice song
Yes.
William
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Have you found the famous painting upon which the pastiche is based?
It is in the following art museum.
William
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10 hours ago, AdamStanislav said:
Confused about the whole thing. How can there be a color of the year? Are some colors better than others? And who decides which ones they are?
And even if some colors were better, why this one? What is so special about it beyond some company wanting to sell it?
Well, it is the Pantone colour of the year.
It is not the only colour of the year.
https://www.dezeen.com/2021/09/14/bright-skies-dulux-colour-year-2022/
William
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1 hour ago, Alfred said:
This evokes memories of Cadbury’s milk chocolate! Is it intended to do so?
No, it is a pastiche of a famous painting, this pastiche is called Very Peri Night if that helps you find the original famous work of art.
1 hour ago, Alfred said:How did you create the swirl? It doesn’t look like something you could easily do in any of the Affinity apps.
I produced it using PagePlus X7 by drawing a Quickshape. PagePlus X7 has that Quickshape. I made the Quickshape with a border line, put a colourful filled rectangle behind it, filled the Quickshape with white, removed the line, then copied to the clipboard and pasted onto a filled rectangle that overlaps the edges of the Affinity Publisher canvas.
William
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12 hours ago, Alfred said:
I see that PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri is described as “A New Pantone Color Whose Courageous Presence Encourages Personal Inventiveness And Creativity”. As the creator of this thread, William, perhaps you’d like to demonstrate how its “courageous presence” has encouraged your personal inventiveness and creativity.
Yes, I would.
William
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I note that you have commented 'Confused'.
How may I help?
I have found that r=104, g=104, b=172 works well in Affinity Designer.
William
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I do not know if this will solve your immediate need, but if you are using a PC, if you export as a PDF document, you might be able to do a Select All on the contents of the PDF document and then paste into WordPad and then save the text from WordPad as a .txt document.
I find that I often use WordPad or Paint to solve a tricky issue that I do not know how to solve otherwise.
If you are not using a PC maybe someone else will assist you.
William
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30 minutes ago, Komatös said:
Yes, of course. Click on the master page 'Cover' and replace the existing image with your own.
Ah, what master page I thought - I have not used Affinity Publisher much - then I looked at lower right of the screen where it says 1 of 18 and to the right of it is a small logo, which, when I moved the pointer over it displays the message
Toggle Master View
so I clicked on it and a large landscape format page was displayed.
William
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51 minutes ago, Komatös said:
I havecreated a template for you. I used an own master page for the continuous cover.
Can you explain how one introduces the photograph into a book made using that template please?
William
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This is interesting.
I do not know the answer, but for the booklet it seems to me that the printing is going to be done on A4 sheets that will then be folded (or on sheets a little bigger than A4 so as to include bleed areas that are then trimmed to A4 so that a picture can go to the edge of the paper).
So it might be possible to have it as A4 or A4 plus bleed areas in Affinity Publisher.
Do you know who will print it? If so, could you ask them what they are able to accept as input?
Someone told me that (some) printers have software tools available to them that allows them to manipulate a PDF document flle so as to prodce a new PDF document for them to use to print.
So, for example, someone at one company told me that if I wanted a sixteen page booklet that I could send them a PDF document of sixteen single A5 pages as pages 1 through to 16 and they have software that would automatically sort the pages so that sheets of A4 plus a bleed area to be printed on both sides of the paper would be produced, though it might be that the printing would be done on much larger sheets of paper then cut into multiple sheets after printing.
So maybe a sort of "A4 landscape for A5 portrait booklet" PDF document would be an option that they have available.
William
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5 hours ago, Alfred said:
2019 is much too old for the ‘initial release’ of a typeface that’s been around for at least a decade! What’s the file size?
552 kilobytes.
The filename is EBGaramond-Italic.ttf with .ttf as the file name extension, which surprised me as it is an OpenType font.
William
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17 minutes ago, Alfred said:
What about Affinity Designer?
No.
But what one gets depends on the font. For example, different for Goudita SF.
As you mentioned a different source for the font, maybe it is not supported in the version of the font that I have got.
If I open the font in FontCreator, for what should I look?
The file has
Version 1.00 March 15, 2019, initial release
William
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30 minutes ago, Alfred said:
Please post a screenshot of the Typography panel, showing its subsections expanded.
Edit: I’ve just found the following post which shows what I expect you to see:
Referring to that illustration, I don't have that Positional Alternates section, even on the .afpub file of the first image in this thread.
William
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I have found this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
Readers in the United Kingdom of a certain age may find this of particular interest. That was in regular use until early 1971, I never knew the reason until now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s#Shilling_mark
William
Artwork inspired by Pantone colour of the year 2022
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C'est possible.