William Overington
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In the original thread ...
PLEASE DO NOT POST IN THIS THREAD ANYMORE AT PRESENT AS IF IT GOES TO FOUR PAGES A SIDEBAR AT THE RIGHT WILL APPEAR AND SPOIL THE APPEARANCE OF THE WHOLE THREAD.
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6 hours ago, Alfred said:
Is it accessible on your other computer, or can you install it on the current one?
Yes, the other computer is now working, and PagePlus X7 is on that computer. The only problem on the other computer was that the wifi was not working, but I managed to fix it by getting a .exe file to install a new copy of the wifi driver from the Lenovo website using this computer then transferring it over using a USB memory stick.
I cannot install PagePlus X7 on this computer without going out of the S part of Windows 10 S. I have decided not to do that as my most critical need for a computer is to order my grocery deliveries.
William
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2 minutes ago, Alfred said:
How did you work in “pixel mode” in PagePlus?
Well, I just set the measurement unit to pixels. Perhaps 'pixel mode' is not the correct term. It was all drawn using Quick Rectangles and having a zero width line, so vector items with pixels as the unit in the transform panel, I set the reference point for the measurement as upper left corner and basically did it all with integers in the transform panel, not doing placement 'by eye' with the pointer at all.
PagePlus X7 is not on this computer, but if I remember correctly it is under Tools Options Rulers or Rules and there is a drop down menu offering a choice, including inches, millimetres, pixels.
William
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8 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:
I would like to give it more than 24 hours use and four person's feedback before changing our minds on this. I like it
Well, that seems fair. The more people who express a view one way or the other the better.
Could you possibly share our reasons for liking the feature please?
What options do you have over this feature please?
Is it just either on with a page number threshold or off?
Is there any way to make it a user choice please?
William
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Just now, Alfred said:
How did you draw them, William? If the originals are in vector format you just need to export them again at the desired DPI setting.
I drew them in PagePlus X7, some years ago on a computer that has since broken down and put them on the web. For the novel I got the png files back from the web. Two had a minor fault and I redrew them. I added the 'singular they' as a new design not used before.
They are 72 pixels by 72 pixels but there is a one pixel wide transparent edge all the way round.
They are constructed by bars 10 pixels wide by 30, 50 or 70 pixels long, and pales 10 pixels wide by 30, 50 or 70 pixels long, superimposed as necessary for each design, working in pixel mode and using the transform panel to precisely position them..
First I produced the background light blue square, then copied that for the base of the others, then constructed components such as a green hollow square and so on and then built up the designs.
I need to look into the colours, as those designs are RGB for the web, and I need to produce CMYK so I want to try to get the colours right by running some tests.
William
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6 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:
I have changed it to only appear on threads 4 pages or longer (and not to appear on the mobile version at all)
Thank you.
Not wishing to appear (churlish?) and ungrateful, the thread to which I referred is already on its third page and so that means that if it is successful and goes into a fourth page then the whole of the thread is going to have a wrecked display for what appears to be no useful purpose.
So is there any reason to have such a (superb diplomat tries to be diplomatic in his choice of adjective) feature at all?
I appreciate that it is Serif's forum so Serif's choices, but I opine that there seems to be no good reason to have that feature enabled at all.
Could you possibly switch it off entirely please?
William
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I am now hoping to produce an image for a card, probably portrait format, that shows the sixteen glyphs that I designed to be emoji for language-independent personal pronouns.
They are shown in the first two chapters of my third novel, which is a work in progress.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/mariposa_novel.htm
Yet the illustration there are 72 pixels by 72 pixels at 96 dots per inch.
So I need to draw them again, for 210 pixels by 210 pixels at 300 dots per inch.
William
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4 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:
nope I do not think it is configurable, what screen width (pixels) are you running that this panel is in the way
Well, I'm not sure. It is an 11 inch Hewlett Packard laptop that cost £199. Nothing exotic.
I am enclosing a print screen image.
William
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I have just accessed the thread
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/138654-artwork-for-greetings-cards/
again so as to add a post, but find that the posts are all squashed to the left and there is a column over to the right with some details about the thread.
Maybe I have unwittingly selected an option, maybe it is a feature, maybe a bug.
Can I get back to the unsquashed version please?
Something else I noticed was that the views count has gone to 2.5k rather than a specific number, which means that I cannot note interest easily anymore.
William
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I have just accessed this thread again so as to add a post, but find that the posts are all squashed to the left and there is a column over to the right with some details about the thread. Is that going to be there all the time now or can I get rid of it somehow please?
William
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Ah, you asked what swatch.
It is the Pantone CMYK one for uncoated.
But I cannot look it up at present to get the precise name becaus somehow I have got Designer into a mode with just the image and nothing else and I don't know how to get out of it.
I closed down and restarted but it is still the same.
How do I get back to Designer in its normal layout please?
William
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Well, orange and green are often two of the extra colours in 12 colour archive printing.
But the hardcopy print of that poem with the colours (my third card) has the green quite good. More the apple green of some of the LNER locomotives than the green of some British Railways steam locomotives in the 1950s, which I think may have been the same green as used by the Great Western Railway. One or both was, I think, called Brunswick Green.
On that card, at the right part of where the orange watercolour brush effect overlaps the red watercolour brush effect it is quite like an orange fruit.
Now it is supposedly CMYK. I suppose that it is possible that it got printed with something more exotic if that is the word. Maybe, just maybe, someone saw it and gave it an upgrade, or maybe every card has that upgrade. In any case the printing equipment is probably in a different league to what is usually available in a home or office setting.
William
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Well the card with the colours had quite bright colours on the actual printed card. A bit muted from the one's displayed on screen, some more muted than others.
There does not to seem to be greens in that swatch, maybe it is me or this computer or maybe I missed them.
William
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Though looking through it there do not seem to be the bright colours that were on the card with the poem that was in language-independent glyphs.
I am wondering why, or have I missed them?
William
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I have just checked on the Papier website and the Paper Quality for the two card templates that I am using are listed as follows.
> High white premium quality paper (350gsm) with an uncoated finish
So I would be using a Pantone uncoated palette, probably the one with CYMK in its name.#
William
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Then there is turquoise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise
So if I copy the glyph for cyan and add a vertical line at the right, to complete the triangle, turquoise can be represented in that way.
So still to design are teal, aqua, royal blue and dark blue.
I am wondering how these colours tie in, if at all, with Pantone colours.
Affinity Designer has Pantone colours, but I think only the print ones. Alas Pantone seems to focus support on Adobe products and it seems that the palette files may now only be accessed by subscribers to Adobe products.
Pantone colours have some for print and some for fashion and home.
Using Pantone colours in a standard might be problematic as Pantone is proprietary, though I notice that the blue used in USB 3.0 sockets in specified as a Pantone colour.
William
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In another thread, colour is being discussed.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/140122-colours/
In this thread, if I used Pantone colours in producing artwork and then produced a jpg file for the purpose of sending it to Papier to print, would the fact that they are Pantone colours be lost in producing the jpg or would Pantone information go through?
The greeting cards do not go through a varnish process as do cards from at least some other suppliers, which is why I use Papier. Also having Papier on the back as an imprint is fine, it adds provenance. I would not want some of the 'hip' names used elsewhere as an imprint on my art.
Though I suspect that that is not the same as coated and uncoated as used in Pantone swatch names.
So if I check whether the card used by Papier for these photo greetings cards is coated or uncoated, if I use the Pantone CMYK palette or that type of paper, would the Pantone names simply be a feature of the source file rather than the jpg file,?
In a similar sort of way that grouping object in an Affinity Designer afdesign document does not go through to the jpg.
I am thinking that using the Pantone CMYK palette might be a good way of documenting my artwork.
I am new to this, so I may have got it muddled.
William
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Looking at the Unicode document I think that I need to add light blue as a necessity.
I currently have blue as horizontal lines, and sky blue as horizontal lines with a vertical at the right.
So light blue could be horizontal lines with a vertical at the left.
I could add light green as the same as green with an added vertical at the right to complete the triangle and light magenta as the same as magenta with an added vertical at the left to complete the triangle. Gold could be done with a detached circle below the horizontal bar that is at the top. Silver could be done with a detached lozenge below the horizontal bar that is at the top. I can think further so as to have copper, bronze and brass separately.
William
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New out yesterday is the following document.
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21075-heart-emoji-coverage.pdf
I am not sure if this is the correct place in this forum to post about it - but I chose here as it seems to me that this is where people using colour in designs might be most likely to notice it.
For comparison, my localizable sentences research currently uses fifteen colours, and I have most, but not all, of those listed in the document, and a few more.
They are listed on page 4 of the following document.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_chapter_005.pdf
So I need to consider adding a few more.
William
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The software unicorns appear in my recent novels, one completed in 2019, one over half completed..
For example, in the following.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_chapter_021.pdf
William
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1 hour ago, JotHa said:
I assume it should resemble the Bavarian banner of arms and can be found everywhere at Oktoberfest times. But it really should be a diamond pattern instead of a check design, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Bavaria. Some of the locals are really picky about that and this would be the first and only thing they notice...
Ah it is fusily in bends for Bavaria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_of_the_field
William
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- First impressions? Colourful, imaginative use of the blue and white check pattern,
- Would you click on the image/ article? Probably not, but I am both teetotal and vegan so no interest in the topic! But if someone were interested in the topic might well do if there were some indication that there is an article rather than the analysis being thought to be all in the graphic. Does it need a shape with the text 'Please click for article' upon it?
- What would you do differently? I would not have had the relative positions of beer and chicken histograms counterchanged in the middle panel. I would have made that centre panel brown at left and yellow at right so as to be consistent. Also, as in two panels brown is at the left, would the title be better as 'Beer and chicken price analysis' so that the words 'Beer' and 'chicken' are in the same relative positions as in the histograms? I would add a shape with the text 'Please click for article' upon it.
I notice that the sixth chess board from the left is over the rightmost panel. Is that deliberate? It does seem to add a bit of liveliness to the design.
Is the light blue and white check design based on the lonzengy check design that refers in some way to Munich?
William
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Oh, this is four pages now, yet no content squeezing sidebar at four pages.
Has it been switched off or what please?
William