Alfred wrote:

In what sense does this simulate a linocut? There’s no texture to it! I would expect to see something a little more organic.

The texture to which you refer in a letterpress print of a linocut can be due to lack of inking and.or lack of printing pressure.

The image that is in this thread was my first attampt.

Nevertheless, even with the simulation of a four colour reduction linocut that I am hoping to produce i intend to have flat areas of colour, without any texture in those areas.

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Alfred wrote:
William wrote:

Please find attached the font LOCSE977.TTF

Do you have any documentation that you can either provide here or link to on another site?

Actually, as best I remember, not as such.

There is the attached document which links glyph images to meanings localized into English, but the glyphs for Welcome and Thank you for visiting have since had an additional design produced, as used in the illustrations earlier in this thread.

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Please find attached the font LOCSE977.TTF

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https://i.postimg.cc/q64RkYHM/A3sign-Welcome.png



https://i.postimg.cc/7Gy72KyL/A3sign-Thank-you-for-visiting.png

https://i.postimg.cc/ZB8jdkG2/faux-lino-001.png

This thread then went off-topic about the oboe for several posts and to some other classical music, Alfred has moved those posts to a thread of their own

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=1067

YouTube then played the following.

Mozart Horn Concerto No.1 in D major K412 - 1- Allegro - Sarah Willis/ Mozart y Mambo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMJ6oF-4CcY

This video features a lady playing a bassoon, but there is a lady in the orchestra playing an oboe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLQpI6nULdg

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https://i.postimg.cc/DS4Bx2gx/Welcome.png


https://i.postimg.cc/CdKCvhMW/Thank-you-for-visiting.png

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Clicking on an image in my previous post should display it enlarged. Clicking on that enlarged display should display the image further enlarged.

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I have found that my picture is from 2019.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … of-a-lady/


https://i.postimg.cc/nstbkQnr/lady-1.png


https://i.postimg.cc/0b6T1CQB/lady-2.png

As I wrote, getting started is the hardest part.

If it got started, it might produce great results, but it seems that it won't get started, so that will be that.

Here is some beautiful music played on an oboe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtE3hoR_Nvo

I looked for an oboe but I did not notice one, but maybe some readers will enjoy the video anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vauo4o-ExoY

Alfred wrote:

Reputation points on forums are usually awarded to people who make helpful posts, but my ‘rep’ being high is partially due to my posting some things that, whilst not at all helpful, proved amusing enough for multiple users to click on the ‘Laugh’ button.

Oh. So when some people laughed at my ideas ...

Ah.

But as Thomas Tusser wrote,

Yet true it is, as cow chews cud
And trees at spring do yield forth bud,
Except wind stands as never it stood,
It is an ill wind turns none to good.

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Alfred wrote:

I can see the importance of doing it slowly so that the viewer can follow what is happening, but I’m afraid I don’t see the relevance of doing it gently.

William wrote:

As if teaching someone who is learning rather than as if answering a question from an examiner who already knows the answer to show that one knows how to do it.

That’s slowly/thoroughly, isn’t it? Perhaps you and I don’t always use the word ‘gently’ in quite the same way.

That is possible.

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Alfred wrote:
William wrote:

I used that as an example.

An example of what? https://punster.me/images/unsure.gif

An example of a topic about using a graphics design program that could be used in an episode of the television programme.

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Alfred wrote:

Insertion of accented characters is fairly standard. On macOS and iPadOS (as on iOS on iPhone) accented characters are readily available via the keyboard, and even Windoze has the option of Alt sequences using the numeric keypad. There are also websites such as TypeIt.org.

I used that as an example.

Continuing, Alfred wrote:

I can see the importance of doing it slowly so that the viewer can follow what is happening, but I’m afraid I don’t see the relevance of doing it gently.

As if teaching someone who is learning rather than as if answering a question from an examiner who already knows the answer to show that one knows how to do it.

William wrote:

Each episode of the programme having a different issue.

Alfred wrote:

I think you mean highlighting or discussing a different issue! Having an issue implies encountering problems.

Thank you.

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Alfred wrote:
William wrote:

The software would be for sale yet there would be a fully functional unlimited duration trial.

What incentive would there be for users to make a purchase? You might as well simply encourage donations while offering the software as a free product.

Because some, maybe many, businesses want to use purchased, formally licensed for money software. Also, they can often do a purcahse order far more easily than make a donation.

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Within the boundary conditions of this speculation, if I had this opportunity.

The software would be for sale yet there would be a fully functional unlimited duration trial. That way I would not be contributing to the digital divide.

The programs would be produced by, for each feature as it is introduced, writing the documentation and then have programmers produce software that implements the features as specified in the documentation.

There would be a television prigramme series centred around a (fictional) design studio and printshop. Each episode an issue would arise and it would be dealt with, the programmes mixing education with entertainment. There would be continuing characters.

For example, the first episode would start in a café, there is going to be a live music evening, and some posters are required. It emerges that the music group are from Sweden and there is an accented character in the name of the group. And in the names of some of the members of the group. The script is written so that all of the accented characters needed for Swedish are included. Then at the printshop, there is discussion of how to insert accented characters into a document as they are not on the keyboard, and it is shown being done on a screen, slowly and gently, that is important.  Later the finished posters are shown, first in the printshop, then later in use in the café. The episode ends with a performance by the group, which is in fact a performance by actors and session musicians, though shown in full, not talked over or showing people watching while the performance is taking place.

Each episode of the programme having a different issue. For example, the local art gallery wants some trifold leaflets for an exhibition. For example, someone wants her handwritten poem typeset and printed and framed. For example, a local startup wants a logo for its product designed.

The television programmes are available on free-to-air television channels and on the web.

Revenue is from advertising revenue and sale of merchandise.

I got my five A3 prints from Viking Virtual Print House a couple of years ago.

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Do you remember when email offers for various non-Serif software used to arrive from Serif, often from a lady named Natasha.

With PagePlus 9 (Yes, 9 not X9) there was announced Serif Printshop. I enquired about printing some posters, but it was minimum order of 50, so that was that, I only wanted five or so.

I never saw anything about Serif Printshop mentioned again.

Reading a PDF document into Affinity programs always had problems with text that was on more than one line.

The hardest part is getting this started. If it got started it could be a great advance.

But the hardest part by far is getting it started.

Maybe it will not get started.

That is just how it is.

I don't know.

I just think that if a group pf people decide to have a go at doing it, then it might get somewhere.

The hardest part is getting started. That is really hard.

If it can get started it may well succeed as one thing can lead to another and another.