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make sure that it’s clean and free from scratches
If you want to clean the disc, make radial strokes (from the centre to the edge) using a soft lint-free cloth with either isopropyl alcohol or no solvent at all. Other alcoholic solvents such as methylated spirits, vodka or whiskey will leave a residue on the disc surface.
The unit has one cable and fits into the D on the computer. It appears when I press the PC symbol and it asks to insert a disc when one is in the unit. I have tried the disc several times but it still asks for one to be inserted.
Have you inspected the disc to make sure that it’s clean and free from scratches? Do you have any other discs that you could try (to rule out the possibility that it’s the drive rather than the PhotoPlus X5 program disc that’s at fault)?
Jim, what is your DVD plug-in unit? Is it one that has a usb Y connection. By that I mean it has two connections to your pc.
I think that should only matter if you want to write to a disc, not if you’re merely reading from it to copy or install something. It allows the unit to draw more power than is available from a single USB port, which is necessary if you’re writing a DVD and the external drive doesn’t have its own power supply.
Hi Ericlnz,
Photo PlusX5 Question.
I have a new computer with Windows 11, and although my DVD plug-in unit appears in the C drive it does not appear on the index in the File Explorer.
I’m not Eric, obviously, but your external DVD drive will be D: or E: (i.e. it should appear under ‘This PC’, not on the index for your C: drive).
I see the recent updates have taken place so why will the DVD unit not appear and the DVD for my Photo Plus X5 not upload. Would this be due to the C++ you have already mentioned in a reply?
C++ is a programming language. This is irrelevant to your problem with seeing drives other than C: on your PC.
Should this have been included in Microsofts installations? If not how is the best method of placing it on my computer?
I expect that it should have been included if necessary, but I’ve never used Windows 11.
Does anyone reading this know what the pieces of wood are for, and how to use them?
It sounds as though they might be there to strengthen the corners of the frame.
The inner corners of the wooden frame of the canvas have slots in them.
If the slots are around 17 mm or 18 mm away from the corners then that would tend to support my theory, just as those pieces of wood would tend to support the corners of the frame!
The problem with posting that I was having appears to be that the text produced by Copilot when copied from the web page and pasted into WordPad was typesetting the names of the variables in italics. I think it was using the special ISO/IEC 10646 / Unicode special mathematical characters. The software under the bonnet (under the hood in American English) in this forum was giving up when it met such a character.
The text in Copilot itself uses italics for B, P, and t.
Fontmaking software like TrueType and OpenType …
Huh?
I get better results in a text editor, where the subscript numerals aren’t rendered as vanishingly small.
[Note by WJGO P0, P1, P2 are meant to be P with a subscript 0, P with a subscript 1, P with a subscript 2. Subscripts are used in the original but not in this transcript.]
I’m having difficulty with those subscript numerals, too! This is the best I can do:
A quadratic Bézier curve is a parametric curve defined using three control points. The formula for the curve is:
B(t) = (1 − t)²P₀ + 2(1 − t)tP₁ + t²P₂
where
• P₀, P₁, and P₂ are the control points
• t is the parameter ranging from 0 to 1This formula ensures a smooth curve that starts at P₀, moves toward P₁ as an intermediate guide, and ends at P₂. Quadratic Bézier curves are commonly used in computer graphics, font rendering, and animations.
Alfred, can you wipe all the Bézier posts except the most recent one please and I will try to fix it using images,
Done! I’ve left this topic in place.
There are some EU originated rules that are worth keeping. If I remember correctly, the fact that domestic electrical items arrive with a fitted plug, ready for use, is one of them. I hope that we keep that as I remember the days of "You'll need a plug" when buying an electric kettle et cetera.
That doesn’t always work in one’s favour! Not long ago I purchased a new fridge freezer which I had carefully chosen to fit the space where the old one was. When one of the delivery men pulled the old one out from the wall, he discovered that it was wired in. Fortunately he was able to detach the old power cable from the wiring plate, and there is a socket next to the allotted space, so it was possible to plug in the new appliance without waiting to have an additional socket installed in place of the wiring plate.
I’m guessing that you supplied the newspaper “quotes”, rather than leaving it to Copilot to make them up!
On a side note, it’s interesting that the spoll chacker doesn’t seem to have heard of Deseret (which, FYI, is happily accepted by Safari on my iPad). Maybe it’s never been to Salt Lake City! It’s not wrong, however, about “til”, which should be preceded by an apostrophe unless you want to either spell out “until” or substitute “till”.
Does Photo Plus X5 work on Windows 10 and 11?
I’m pretty sure I’ve used it on Windows 10, albeit not recently. I’ve never used Win 11, so I’ll leave it to one of our fellow forum members to answer that. You may need to invoke Win 7 compatibility mode as @Dunny suggested.
Thanks for sharing that page, Lon. It’s good to see you back here after your long absence!
Shortened link: https://youtu.be/WeOO1PVnvjk&t=16m15s
Another good question, Geoff, but my impression is that the UK doesn’t casually abandon things like food safety standards.
That’s a good question, Geoff! I don’t know the answer, but it seems logical that it shouldn’t be possible to import banned substances into the UK by any route.
When you use fonts or pieces of clip art, the licence information attached to such resources tells you about the provenance and copyright status of the items. The issue with AI-generated items is that the AI system may have been trained on material that was used without the originator’s permission.
For example, in the llysiau yn llyfrgell thread, I may be wrong, but I remember seeing the Orion constellation often in the winter, and I think that the AI system has not got that right.
The most distinctive feature of that constellation is Orion’s Belt, perceived as three stars in a straight line. That seems to be missing from the AI system’s attempt at recreating the constellation for the requested picture.
Yet maybe by careful wording, perhaps by stating the size of the filled squares in pixels, a better result can be obtained.
The prompt specified squares, so none of them should have been oblongs. It shouldn’t be necessary to specify a size or even an aspect ratio.
[AWP]
Please substitute a list of sixteen CMYK colours, not necessarily a good visual match for the ones in the RGB list.
[Copilot]
Here’s a selection of sixteen CMYK colours, which may differ visually from the RGB ones I previously listed:
Absolutely! Here’s a list of sixteen colours along with their RGB values:
Colour C M Y K
Deep Teal 100 50 50 20
Coral 0 65 50 0
Mustard 10 30 100 10
Plum 50 100 0 30
Turquoise 85 0 35 0
Sangria 0 100 50 30
Charcoal 0 0 0 80
Mint 50 0 50 0
Taupe 20 30 40 30
Rust 10 80 100 20
Violet 70 70 0 0
Olive 30 20 90 40
Rosewood 20 100 80 30
Fern 80 10 80 20
Aqua 70 0 20 0
Bronze 10 50 80 20These shades add a different perspective, blending inks in unique ways compared to additive RGB colours. Let me know if you’d like adjustments or specific colour themes!
[WJGO]
Thank you.
Actually, the painting only has three rows of filled squares.
Please try again. Please make the painting 1024 pixels wide by 1536 pixels tall.
[Copilot]
Got it! Here's your revised painting—now with four full rows of squares, precisely arranged, and at the correct dimensions. I appreciate your keen eye for detail. Let me know if you'd like any further refinements!
Still only three rows, but now with just one column of squares rather than tall rectangles. Fascinating!
[AWP]
Please produce a list of sixteen colours that you recognise and the r,g,b values that you use for each of them.
[Copilot]
Absolutely! Here’s a list of sixteen colours along with their RGB values:
Colour R G B
Red 255 0 0
Green 0 255 0
Blue 0 0 255
Yellow 255 255 0
Cyan 0 255 255
Magenta 255 0 255
Black 0 0 0
White 255 255 255
Gray 128 128 128
Orange 255 165 0
Purple 128 0 128
Brown 165 42 42
Pink 255 192 203
Lime 50 205 50
Indigo 75 0 130
Gold 255 215 0These colours cover a nice range of shades, from bold primaries to softer tones. Let me know if you need more, or if you'd like me to adjust them to specific shades!
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