William Overington

Wow! I just tried that and put the whole of the locsencube006.png file into it, and it worked, even with all the other stuff in the file there! William

Thank you. As far as I am aware I have not got the facility to do so. Though perhaps there is some way that I could given the facilities here. I have not got in-home computer printing facilities either. Yet it seems that I can order prints online, on 350 grammes per square metre card too, and have them delivered by Royal Mail or courier. However, there is a relatively small minumum charge and I can get around 20 sheets for the same price as for 1, so I am thinking of making several prints and sending them all off together. Apparently one can build a job up with several PDF files as long as they are all the same size format and have the same type of paper or card use. I could get a printer but for the quantities of print I need it is more convenient, less expensive and higher quality print and better choice of paper than I could get using a home printer as they have much better printing equipment. In addition they will mail things out to up to five different addresses in chosen quantities, so one could get a book printed and comply with the law regarding Legal Deposit without leaving home. https://www.bl.uk/help/how-to-deposit-your-print-publications So some to the author, one to The British Library, five to the agent for the other five Legal Deposit libraries, and I suppose the rest could go to booksellers or wherever one chooses. William

Here is a version with a QR code for the code number for the localizable sentence added. Could someone possibly test it please? In fairness, I doubled the size of the locsen123.png file that contains the image of the Qr code in the A4 original, yet these online pictures are about one fifth of the size of the original, the original being A4 at 300 dots per inch, so the png was originally to be 3508 pixels by 2481 pixels and I downsized it to 700 pixels by 495 pixels. An extremely useful feature of Affinity Designer in producing this artwork is the ability to set the point of an image to which the numerical values in the Transform table relate. I have used upper left, upper middle, lower left, lower middle, and for the QR code, centre. QR code image courtesy of https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/ William

Here is a version with the code number for the localizable sentence added. William

Here is the latest version. William

The above is a reply to your first post. I have only seen your second post afterwards. I think that I should not have had a tab under square 4, as it would lead to a tab on the outside that would look wrong. Oops! I think that I may need to change Chapter 50 a little to fix that, so I might as well add the two tabs at the top as well when doing that. William

The name of the thread is the plural of locsencube. Well, the two locsencubes are identical apart from the language codes. The first one I made up as in the story chapter, then I thought that an improvement would be to add the language codes on the top. I coined the word locsencube as loc from localizable, sen from sentence(s), cube from the shape. Regarding reviewing the arrangement of the tabs, well I suppose that a tab above square 2 and a tab above square 4 could be an improvement, though not above square 1 as a tab above square 1 would get in the way of the tab above square 6 being used to close the box. Why do you consider that there are too many tabs at the bottom please? So I could change the story, or maybe add a bit in a later chapter where the design gets refined with the extra tabs and the language codes. Due to the part about using two locsencubes that have the same language-independent glyph, perhaps the glyph needs to be on the top as well. Possibly a code number on the top too. Maybe a QR code with the code number in it on the base. Here are links to a couple of documents with code numbers and glyphs. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/A_List_of_Code_Numbers_and_English_Localizations_for_use_in_Research_on_Communication_through_the_Language_Barrier_using_encoded_Localizable_Sentences.pdf http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/locse027.pdf Here is the font with the glyphs. https://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/LOCSE977.TTF William

The original artwork is A4 in size. In the full size version the side of each square is 50 millimetres in length. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_second_novel_chapter_050.pdf An interesting matter that has arisen is the following. https://www.lexico.com/definition/trapezium https://www.lexico.com/definition/trapezoid William Supplementary note of Monday 9 August 2021 An error was detected in the locsencube design detailed in the PDF document, after the description of the design had been published. This was in the location of the trapeziums. So the design error of the locsencube was corrected, the description in the text of the story altered accordingly, some additional text was added too, and the new PDF document has replaced the PDF document that was published on Friday 6 August 2021. So the description in the PDF document now available does not match the above diagrams. William

https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=3312 https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=3688 William

Pantone Colour of the Year for 2013 and fonts https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=4064 William

Thank you. That is good. I will try to think up a design for a greetings card that uses all of those colours. William

Thank you. So how do I use the palette please in Affinity Designer? Are these the colours labelled as for Fashion, Home and Interiors or the ones labelled as Graphics? With an earlier palette I tried to make a greetings card using all of the colours in the palette. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/143812-informal-design-workshop-idea/ William

A link to an article linked from a circulated email that I received from Pantone today. https://www.pantone.com/articles/colors/electric-pastels William

Mmm, yes! The card would be seven inches by five inches. Indeed. It will need a code designed for the purpose, compact expression of a good variety of both basic operations and calls of complicated procedures, so as to be able to get as much software as possible into the QR code.

The A0 poster could be portrait or landscape in format. If landscape format, the poster could have an interpretation panel at one side, or interpretation panels on both sides. I could make a greetings card with a 4 inch square QR code on it. Or a keyring, or a tote bag, or a fridge magnet. I wonder if a QR code could be used to store software in the form of portable interpretable object code for a sandboxed virtual machine, then the QR code could be scanned and the software loaded and obeyed. William

Well, yes, I did only look at the date that the thread was started, I should have checked for the date of the most recent post. William

I disagree. The threads were not current. If someone wants to post to an older thread and bring it back to the top, then fine. If someone wants to start a new thread, then fine. The problem with bumping an old thread is that a reader may feel as if he or she should read everything that has been posted previously in that thread. A new thread is fresh and starts off straight away with what the poster wants to say. William

A thought experiment. It occurred to me that by using a vector QR code image, Affinity Publisher, a home computer with internet access, and a credit card or a debit card, and the https://viking-virtualprinthouse.co.uk/ facility, one could have delivered to one's front door an A0 size poster with a huge QR code on it. Sort of pop art that could be applied. I am wondering at from what distance a smartphone with a camera could act upon the information in the QR code. For example, could one be twenty metres away and the QR code be used to put an augmented reality sculpture in the middle of the twenty metre gap? Could a website linked from the QR code contain the GPS coordinates of the QR code and use that in conjunction with the GPS coordinate of the smartphone? For what purpose? Could such a large QR code be useful in, say, the concourse of a railway station so that people could link to information without needing to get close to th QR code? Could it be mounted above the head height of the people so that lots of people could access it simultaneously? I am wondering if there is some potentially useful purpose for the idea. Could it help partially sited people in some way so that it links to a file of speech that plays? William

Can you clarify that please? Is a play to be produced? Given that cutting a printed page of that along the trim lines would detach the folding guidance, does folding take place before trimming? Is this for a printing run or just for, say, three copies, one to use, one to archive and one in case the first one gets damaged in use? Is a stage performance of a play due to take place? The following is interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Kokoschka William

I don't work for Serif, so the fact that I do not understand the question is not significant. Yet I thought that I would try to find out what is a slug line, in this context. I have found the following. https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-a-slug-line-definition/ It is interesting, and probably not what is being asked about in this thread, though in fact useful to me as a serendipitous discovery as I like to write, but gives me a clue as to the possible meaning here as being some sort of guidance information to help produce the final printed output but is not part of the printed output. Is that right? I have also found the following. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(typesetting) I had a look at the PDF document that is attached to the first post in this thread. What does that demonstrate please? What would you be able to get if Serif implemented your suggestion? William .

Where is this please? William

A metaphor relating to a disability! Is that desirable? Hardly inclusive to those of us who need to wear glasses for that condition. Perhaps it is the wrong type of inclusive. William

What about preset shapes (that is, those items that were called Quick shapes in PagePlus)? William

Or, putting it in a vegan way ... http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/bird0001.htm William

Thinking about the upload your own artwork calendar facility at the Viking virtual print house, it seems that what one produces need not actually be a calendar. So one could design one's own multipicture art gallery of one's own artwork with a wall calendar structure so that one gets a product that one can display on a wall in the manner of a calendar, with any one picture displayed at any one time. And it would last longer than just one year. It could be pictures, it could be text, such as poems. Not necessarily twelve pages either. One could produce two, one to use, one to archive, or one could produce more. William