Musing and wondering

[William Overington]

@Alfred @Cliff evans @Patrick Connor 

I was reading, and posting in, the following thread.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/87368-affinity-publisher-to-be-launched-at-affinity-live/

and I noticed the post by Cliff Evans.

So I had a look at the thread to which Cliff linked.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/898-dxf-export-support/

As it happens, over twenty years ago I studied AutoCad for a while, not to any great depth, but I was able to produce basic isometric drawings.

I had a trial of Affinity Designer recently but the trial has expired and I have not yet decided whether to buy it yet, though I found out today that there is apparently a 20% discount at the moment.

I do have DrawPlus X5 though.

Recently I found, in another thread, that one can export a drawing produced using the Pen Tool in Affinity Publisher using a .svg file and get the design into PagePlus X7 as a vector file that way, having previously found that copy and paste from Affinity Publisher to PagePlus X7 via the Windows clipboard only passed a bitmap version of the image.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/86113-copying-a-vector-pen-tool-generated-image-to-pageplus-ends-up-as-a-bitmap/

Affinity Publisher and PagePlus X7 were running separately and the .svg file was saved to the Documents folder of Windows from Affinity Publisher and inserted into PagePlus X7 from the Documents folder.

I remembered that some time ago, with an earlier version of a Serif product, maybe PagePlus or maybe DrawPlus, that I was able to link through from that application and have an ImpactPlus 5 "whatever" within the PagePlus document.

I cannot remember how to do it, but I tried having a look in PagePlus X7 but I cannot find anything about it at present. Maybe it is there or maybe it has been discontinued.

The net effect of this is that I am wondering if Affinity Designer, or Affinity Publisher as well maybe, could have a DrawPlus "whatever" within it so that the design could be produced in the Affinity application and easily passed through to DrawPlus and then exported as a .dxf file from DrawPlus.

As the thread title of this thread mentions, I am just musing and wondering, yet also thinking that bits of the above might ring a bell with some readers and maybe we can work something out.

William

 

[Patrick Connor]

No

[William Overington]

5 hours ago, Patrick Connor said:

No

@Patrick Connor

No to whom and to which matter please?

I seem to remember being able to embed another application in something. I tried it once as a test. Was it in an earlier version of PagePlus?

William

 

 

[Alfred]

9 minutes ago, William Overington said:

I seem to remember being able to embed another application in something. I tried it once as a test. Was it in an earlier version of PagePlus?

“A long time ago,

A million years BC,

The best things in life ...”

 

Ahem! Sorry about that little diversion. All I actually meant to say was that many years ago, as I recall, we could embed documents from other ‘Plus’ software titles and then double-click to edit the embedded document in its parent application, but that relied on the rather flaky OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) technology and Serif eventually dropped the feature.

[William Overington]

12 minutes ago, Alfred said:

A long time ago,

A million years BC,

The best things in life ...

@Alfred

That rang a bell and I found that it is in a song "Pennies from Heaven"

I found the lyrics in the text of this video, but the words are not sung in the video. I wonder why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZj2096wyy0

So I looked up Frances Langford and found the following.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Langford

There was the mention of The Pepsodent Show.

I found the following on YouTube, with mention in the text of a project to conserve old radio programmes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg00Rpf8F78

Back to Pennies from Heaven...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxVXNWdHDq8

It is interesting how in songs from that era that there is often a long instrumental section before any singing, which is different from how many more recent songs are performed.

22 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Ahem! Sorry about that little diversion.

Well, I am still listening to videos that followed on.

Another ramble.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ahem

That led to https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hem definition 2.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hem_and_haw

I also found the following.

https://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/humming+and+harring.html

38 minutes ago, Alfred said:

“A long time ago,

A million years BC,

The best things in life ...”

 

Ahem! Sorry about that little diversion. All I actually meant to say was that many years ago, as I recall, we could embed documents from other ‘Plus’ software titles and then double-click to edit the embedded document in its parent application, but that relied on the rather flaky OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) technology and Serif eventually dropped the feature.

Ah, yes, the computer stuff. :-)

Thank you for explaining.

!987

William

 

[Patrick Connor]

8 hours ago, William Overington said:

I am wondering if Affinity Designer, or Affinity Publisher as well maybe, could have a DrawPlus "whatever" within it......and easily passed through...

well you didn't actually use a question mark in your ramble post but this was the closest you got to a question, as you say it was mainly musings. I was essentially saying No to that bit.

Also don't tag staff in threads. It is particularly not helpful to tag more than one forum member in a discussion as we are not here for this purpose.

[William Overington]

3 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

well you didn't actually use a question mark in your ramble post but this was the closest you got to a question, as you say it was mainly musings. I was essentially saying No to that bit.

Also don't tag staff in threads. It is particularly not helpful to tag more than one forum member in a discussion as we are not here for this purpose.

Well, I tagged to Cliff Evans as he raised the topic in another thread and Alfred because I thought that he might know the answer.

William