In the context, KISS is in no way scatological or obscene. It may be offensive only to the poor recipient of the advice being told his work is over elaborate.

It is widely used in the engineering world, and is a useful maxim for everyone trying to communicate. It is often used when a complicated solution has been found to a problem, and the resulting thing or process maybe exceeds the constraints available.
Surely, in the example

On the possibility of producing a greetings card that displays the text of an original poem

is unnecessarily verbose, and the essence of the title is contained in the suggested 

Include a poem in a greetings card.

   with no diminution of meaning except the unnecessary  "original."

It has limited application in the literary world, where style is significant.

BTW I believe it means Keep It Simple Stupid, not the other way round.

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Works fine in Vivaldi

Perhaps I needed to log in - although before doing that, in  Firefox and Vivaldi all attachments came up with the tag against them "You do not permissions to ..."

I'll close down the PC sometime and look again  - which is almost the first thing I do every morning to see if Alfred pas  paased some literary gems.

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It's one of those days.

I'm back to Opera, my default browser, Both PDFs now open with no trouble!

I don't know whether it's something unlikely such as needing to have been downloaded once before (via firefox)
I shall try one more browser - I have Chrome somewhere.

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William wrote:

No.

William

Sorry, as Alfred diagnosed correctly, the knob on my time machine has slipped. Comes of using metric threads instead of good old BA.

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I've moved to Firefox, and I have no trouble in opening th pdf.

In fact, before I logged in,into Firefox, it was telling me I had not got permission to download ANY of the attachments.

Seems there is a clue in there . .

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to Alfred:

Are you able to download the last post 16.22.54?

It always says download blocked,

I'll try another browser

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try small pdf

This again has the message download blocked

It's a pdf size 216.47 kb

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test can be deleted
don't quote it.

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Before I press the ‘Choose File’ button I see “no file selected”. When I press it and browse to a file, I see the filename without the path, and when I press ‘Add file’ it gets uploaded. At that point I see the filename as a clickable link, followed by the file size and the words “file has never been downloaded”.

Thanks for confirming it should pick up the filepath itself. Before I try any more, I'll just comment on the above.

It's exactly what I do, but (a) you have used a.png as a sample, and I have no problem with those.
(b} I wonder if my file is too big, or somethings else. As I said, in one manifestation its download was blocked.

I'll have another go ; first one I know works, then a small pdf, then a bigger file.

BTW re your post of 13.17.01, I was aware of this. I am wary of inserting text inside the brackets, as the font is small - while  big enough for normal reading - and the cursor tends to go in the wrong place and has to be nudged into position.

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For goodness sake, after means following.
(1) Following: in time - "Henry V was after Henry VI"
(2) Following: in distance - "The King's page went after his master to his stateroom."
(2) Following: in style, attributes  - "His pupil painted after the style of  Rembrandt " "Dorothy Sayers wrote after Sherlock Holmes (Actually not so, provide your own comparisons)" This use can be clumsy, and generally is used in a heading -" Poem after Wordsworth's  Daffodills."

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That’s the path to a file on your computer, Jack! Unless you’re running your own server, you need to upload it as an attachment to share it with the rest of us.

I know that, and I'm beating my brains out to get the thing to upload an attachment.
When I click on choose file, if I go to the actual file in its location deep in a subfolder, it prints the short filename, not the path.
I don't understand at the moment whether it looks up the path and merely prints the filename.

The last go, when I clicked on the filename, it said the upload was blocked.

Aaarrrg.

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BTW, I do produce a greetings card, for the Jewish New Year.

It incorporates a colour drawing that I copied from a professional artists site, but, importantly, got her permission to publish it for a  limited distribution - family and friends. So I am not going to publish it here.

The technical features are simply  that it is printed booklet fashion, on pages 1 and 3, and is landscape cut horizontally from a landscape A4 sheet of thin card. I trim the outer edges to allow use of a standard envelope. The font is Ancestry SF, an elegant script font.

Also, I do produce Birthday cards for my wife, and wedding anniversary cards, for her, too, really.

As I make only one each time, I may use different sizes, including whole page

I am attaching one to demonstrate
Ah! I've run into a problem. I did attach a pfd file during the general try-out sessions initially, but I can't see how to do it now.

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I just realised, William's thoughts were of a can of apricots, so it's better that I chose another fruit - no plagiarism there!

William:

On the possibility of producing a greetings card that displays the text of an original poem

William can't you KISS - keep it stupid simple?
A simpler title:
Include a poem in a greetings card.

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A title - how about "Fuzzy Thinking", or "A Beach Too Far"

How about a competition, one week timelimit?

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Wiliam:

I have noticed that your poem does not have a title.
It is an author's choice not to have a title for a poem.
But just wondering if you might like to consider adding a title.

I will think of a title, and edit the post to incorporate that.

Willliam:

Also, I don't know whether you would want to do this, but you could if you wish produce a greetings card with the poem on the front, and instead of the greeting inside, your name and the date, then send it to yourself.
Here is a link to the template.. . . .

Well, I had no idea that my poem, conceived on a whim, would turn out to be an earnest treatise on how to use a birthday card template and umpteen posts on fonts.
I had the notion that we could have a thread devoted to the literary arts - more the literature rather than the mechanism.

No, William, I have currently no intention of producing a greetings card in this instance, but I suppose I am pleased that you have taken the opportunity to provide guidance to others.

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William wrote:

I once wrote a poem, which may or may not have been in a forum post, maybe it can be located, it was about a can of apricots canned in Australia bought in England and musing about the apricots having grown on a tree beneath stars different from those seen from England.

Here's a little ditty in response.

This poem's about a can of peaches
   Marooned in rusty tin atop the sand
On one of England's windswept beaches
. Its contents clear, writ on the label band

Would, if peaches thought, mindless as they are
. In reality, think how they arrived
From distant land, in can rather than a jar
. From sunny clime and happy land derived

Their thoughts, concerning their own can, were moot
. Were the distance, in a tin, they travelled
From Australasia, a convoluted route
. And arrived, their calmness so unravelled

Or thinking of the blessed Southern skies, the stars
. In the blackness of the heavens showing
Beauteous lights, the skies of England cloudiness marring
. Not like the Southern night time glowing.

Of trees with southern peaches laden down
. Under those brilliant Australasian skies
Dreamt our tin of fruit with peachy velvet gown
. Denuded, so eaten sweet in pies!

What about literature topics?
Poetry etc.

I have just posted a poem in response to a post by William, in the old Lounge, in the Video thread. It's the wrong place, like off topic, and with permission I'll post it here.

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Is it copyright, though?

It was posted by Alfred.

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Will anyone object if I use the big ginger cat head pic as an avatar. I'm just thinking about it as an option.

I will delete it if there are any objections.

It's there until I get a nice pic of suzi
https://i.postimg.cc/KR81HFH3/image-2022-01-29-144205.png

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Will anyone object if I use the big ginger cat head pic as an avatar. I'm just thinking about it as an option.
https://i.postimg.cc/KR81HFH3/image-2022-01-29-144205.png

Surely, art would be a sufficient theme holder for art topics. There wouldn't be enough posts  covering all art to need so many headings in the forum, and we are talking headings, not individual posts..

Art is a favourite with William, and I would respect his plea if there were sufficient posts to justify  his proposed "micro-divisions."

But I like science and maths topics to exercise the little grey cells, and I wouldn't ask for headings to separate the themes. Like physics, pure maths, chemical science, technology... you name it.  Material in these headings come occasionally in bursts - a question or conundrum  is posed, and many hands go to solve it. Then it goes dormant for a while. 

Interesting items under all headings come along frequently and maybe could be exhibited in their own thread.

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Is there really much difference between the standard Undo/Redo keyboard shortcuts and what those arrows do?

What are they? Do I know them under another name?

Found them
Undo: Control + z
Redo: Control +y

But I like to see icons, especially on a toolbar, easier to visualise what they do.

https://i.postimg.cc/R3CJ4Pnb/image-2022-01-28-154326.png

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I don't mean anything connected with posts previous to the one being written. Just that in the current post being written, or edited, one should  be able to delete some text, and restore it. The facility was there in the former forum Lounge. Usually delineated by a left and right facing arrow in the toolbar.

This is normal in most word processors and many apps. But you know what I mean.

I appreciate that if you can't find it, or do it, that's that.