I knew of that Agency, but I had not seen its website before.

Thank you.

On that website is the following.

> Publishers must supply five copies of every print publication, on request, to the Agency for Legal Deposit Libraries (ALDL) in Edinburgh, for distribution to the five Legal Deposit Libraries.

A copy of a print publication must be sent within one month of publication to The British Library.

The Agency then has one year in which the request may be made. A publisher may send them in without being asked if the publisher so chooses.

With pure electronic publications, The British Library makes copies and sends them, though whether that is to the Agency or direct to the five libraries I do not know.

I was, in fact, under no obligation to send in the PDF document as The British Library gathers from websites. However, I choose to do so.

The regulations for electronic publications, both pure electronic and electronic on media, came into force in 2013. Before then, The British Library had no right to gather. However, for some years before, The British Library had a Voluntary Deposit system for electronic publications and I used to send pure electronic publications. When the regulations came in I continued to send items in as before. This so that I know that they have them for conservation.

So my Art Show can be On Tour too.

I wonder at how many locations. The British Library has Reading Rooms at London and in Yorkshire.

William

No.

The fact that another forum exists does not in any way restrict the range of topics that can be discussed in this forum.

William

I have found artboards but I do not understand it all.

I want to produce a multipage PDF document from Affinity Designer where each page is 24 inches wide by 13.5 inches high, thus a 16:9 aspect ratio so that an A3 picture, possibly with a bleed area, can be included on any page in it at full size, and thus exportable by reading the PDF document in a desktop publishing program and exporting just the selected image, this assisted by the image having a borderless white-filled rectangle behind it, so unseen normally, yet selectable from within a desktop publishing program.

William

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kOsi6JDbRkk

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NX5msDg9OFM

Here is the text of the svg file.

<svg width="800" height="600" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <!-- Background -->
  <rect width="800" height="600" fill="skyblue" />
  <!-- Ground -->
  <rect y="500" width="800" height="100" fill="green" />
  <!-- Tracks -->
  <line x1="0" y1="520" x2="800" y2="520" stroke="black" stroke-width="5" />
  <line x1="0" y1="540" x2="800" y2="540" stroke="black" stroke-width="5" />
  <!-- Locomotive Firefly -->
  <g transform="translate(100, 520)">
    <!-- Boiler -->
    <rect x="50" y="-50" width="200" height="50" fill="darkred" />
    <!-- Chimney -->
    <rect x="230" y="-150" width="20" height="100" fill="black" />
    <!-- Cab -->
    <rect x="0" y="-50" width="50" height="50" fill="darkred" />
    <!-- Wheels -->
    <circle cx="50" cy="0" r="20" fill="black" />
    <circle cx="130" cy="-30" r="50" fill="black" />
    <circle cx="210" cy="0" r="20" fill="black" />
  </g>
  <!-- Sun -->
  <circle cx="700" cy="100" r="50" fill="yellow" />
</svg>

I have had a go at that, I hope to post the picture in the next post.

William

The video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHqPrHTN1dU

has English subtitles available.

William