Thank you for the link, William.
When I follow that link I see a view with two (types of) dogs, one in each of two windows, but in your previous post to this thread you mentioned three. Where is the third one?
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Thank you for the link, William.
When I follow that link I see a view with two (types of) dogs, one in each of two windows, but in your previous post to this thread you mentioned three. Where is the third one?
“Tomorrow never comes.”
If one goes back to August 2008, there are displays of silhouettes of dogs out for a walk.
I’m sure I’ve seen that view previously, William, but none of the views I’ve seen this time around allow me to go back as far as 2008. Perhaps you could share the URL which allows you to see that.
Fifty years? Wow!
The latest version of MainType was released two weeks ago, with a launch offer discount of 10% which originally expired yesterday. The discount code TYPE13NEWS has now been unlocked for a further week, extending the deadline to Wednesday, 11 June 2025.
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That is a nice picture. Thank you.
However, the number 4 is not part of the Fibonacci sequence. Can you remove the 4 from the picture please.
3 and 5 are prime numbers, so they should be green or blue. 1 and 8 are not prime numbers, so they shouldn’t be.
There are only the first eight numbers of the Fibonacci sequence in the painting. Please use the first fifteen numbers of the Fibonacci sequence.
In the revised version where the 4 has been removed, there are only eight of the first ten numbers in the Fibonacci sequence. The 13, which was present before, is now missing. The 55 has been missing all along.
Chambers also states that in your part of the world, "ream" also means cream or froth, derived from Old English, as opposed to the usual meaning, which is derived from Arabic. Is ream still used that way in Scotland?
If it is used that way here, I’ve never knowingly encountered it! However, I don’t think that’s hugely significant.
A ream of any type of paper is 500 sheets
I had an aunt in the paper trade, and to her a ream was 480 sheets. Apparently it has now become 500 sheets, having grown toward the end of last century. I blame the EU!
Whilst "reams" can be a vague term of quantity, eg "William has created reams of threads in this forum", there is nothing vague about a "ream of paper". It is internationally accepted nowadays as 500 sheets precisely.
Thanks for that, Geoff. I had completely forgotten about the Imperial ream if I ever knew about it.
Quire, Ream, Bundle, Bale & Pallet
For a consumer point of view, an increase in the size of a pack is a welcome change from the “shrinkflation” that we see almost everywhere nowadays.
I don't know the population of Skegness.
Ask the Germans!
probably each sheet nominally the same size as every other sheet in the ream
No ‘probably’ about it! Each sheet in a ream is nominally the same size as every other sheet, but in practice there may be some variation.
I will rewrite it.
Thank you for the helpful rewrite.
A ream of it is 500 sheets.
A ream of any type of paper is 500 sheets, so I’m not sure why you’re singling out this particular type of paper as if it’s unusual in that regard.
The term paper size is ambiguous
I’ve only ever known the additive used in papermaking to be called ‘size’, not ‘paper size’, so what the latter term clearly and unambiguously conveys to me is the sheet dimensions.
Does that help?
I’m afraid not! I still think the single-sentence paragraph that I quoted has some words repeated, added, or missing. You wrote:
My experience of machine made deckle edge paper is that a ream of it, sheets Large Post size, which was was purchased and two edges opposite each other were deckled edged and the other two were straight cut as the paper was made on a roll.
If we strip that down a little to reveal its structure, we get something like this:
My experience of machine made deckle edge paper is that a ream of it … which was was purchased and two edges opposite each other were deckled edged and the other two were straight cut ...
The word ‘was’ is duplicated, and it looks to me as though the word ‘which’ doesn’t belong in the sentence. Have I misinterpreted what you wrote?
I’m afraid I can’t make sense of this paragraph:
My experience of machine made deckle edge paper is that a ream of it, sheets Large Post size, which was was purchased and two edges opposite each other were deckled edged and the other two were straight cut as the paper was made on a roll.
Did you accidentally omit some words and/or include some additional ones?
Yes, getting colder tonight. Winter's on its way.
Summer is supposedly on its way where I am, but it’s early afternoon right now and it’s only around 14 °C (57 °F).
the plain white area in the previous picture was approximately two thirds of the height requested
My guess is that this is caused by the (new to Copilot) landscape format, where the 1024 px height is exactly two thirds of the 1536 px width.
That's funny. Not even a question I would have thought of asking. I just now tried it, asking if Co-Pilot could offer any help with PPX8. Its answer? "Absolutely! Consult the manual!" You have to admit, there may be a built-in sense of humor that we've missed so far.
ME: can you offer any help with Serif PagePlusx8?
COPILOT: Yes! If you're looking for guidance on **Serif PagePlus X8**, you might find the **[official user manual](https://www.manua.ls/serif/pageplus-x8/manual)** helpful—it covers everything from starting a new publication to formatting text, working with images, and applying effects.
Fascinating! I can understand people doing that for old software which is no longer officially supported, but what I actually meant is that some users of the Affinity apps have only posted to the Affinity forums after trying ChatGPT first.
[Actually, a comet does not observably streak through the sky, meteorites do that. The comet is at a great distance and moves quasistatically as seen from the Earth.]
Why not try mentioning meteorites instead of comets in your prompt?
ChatGPT obviously has its uses, but I have to wonder about the people who post to the Affinity forums for help and kick off by explaining that they asked ChatGPT first. Why would anyone expect a chatbot to be able to offer help with something which requires the practical experience that only a real user of the apps can have? I would have more faith in the apps’ Help topics, and even those have some glaring deficiencies.
Prominent Historical Figures Who Lived Long Enough to Have Their Photo Taken
I know there are minimum ages specified in law for consuming alcohol, smoking, getting married, leaving school, becoming POTUS, etc, but I've never known of one about being photographed.

What’s all this about “Their Photo [sic]”, anyway? They weren’t all alive at the same time, so it would have been impossible for them to appear together in a single photo.
Why not simply ask Copilot to flip the picture horizontally?
Because the elephant would no longer be on the left and the rhinoceros would no longer be on the right.
I see. You hadn’t stated that the animals needed to maintain their positions relative to each other, so I had no reason to think that flipping the whole thing horizontally was unacceptable.
[I tried to get a picture more like Albert's original, but no success yet]
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That is wonderful. Thank you.
Could you please produce a version where the elephant is looking to the left of the picture and the rhinoceros is looking to the right of the picture.[Copilot]
Here’s your refined impressionist painting—an elephant looking to the left and a rhinoceros looking to the right before the sunlit mountain. Let me know if you’d like any further adjustments!
The lighting has changed but both animals are still looking in the wrong direction! Why not simply ask Copilot to flip the picture horizontally?
I must have got something from an archive but I found ths picture, drawn by Albert and given a title by me, in my Downloads folder today.
Presented as the artist presented it.
Rotate the picture counterclockwise to observe it please.Comments by Albert and Alfred and are awaited.
Rotating the picture may be easier said than done, depending on your viewing device, so I’ve attached a rotated version.
I love the ‘succinct’ English version of the title of that piece:
Tsukasa and Other Courtesans of the Ogiya Watching the Autumn Moon Rise Over Rice Fields from a Balcony in the Yoshiwara
The detail in that drawing is astonishing. But then, Hokusai never ceases to astonish me.
I’m pretty sure there’s a hex dump utility available for download from the High-Logic Forums. That or any similar utility should show you exactly what characters are represented in your file.
When I performed a new search for Japanese Art Card on the Tesco site I got more than 300 results in total, 80 of which were for designs by Ohara Koson, and when I searched instead for Hokusai Art Card I got 25 results.
It has
Made in Scotland
on the back
And it has
Sold and sent by Wee Blue Coo Ltd
on the Tesco web page. That page offers a choice of only four Ohara Koson designs, whereas the Wee Blue Coo website has 51 to choose from (and you can buy 3 for the price of 2).
The attachment seems be only 36 bytes, and it displays here as a row of question marks. Perhaps you could share it in the message body of a post here by using ‘code’ markup.
As a side note, I haven’t seen a *.htm file (as distinct from *.html, *.shtml, *.xhtml, etc) in a very long time.
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