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A delightful little diversion, Gordon. Thanks for sharing!
William wrote:[WJGO]
Please produce an original impressionist painting that is 1024 pixels wide by 1536 pixels tall such that I can rotate it by 90 degrees and it then be a good picture.
[Copilot]
Here’s an original impressionist painting for you! This composition should work well whether viewed in its original format or rotated by 90 degrees. Let me know if you'd like any adjustments to better match your artistic vision!
Oops, haha! I think you need to ask Copilot to put the ground on the left and the sky on the right, or something like that.
Alfred wrote:The linked page about Opuntia, the cochineal’s home and food source, would benefit from being revised somewhat.
A reference to O. robusta grabbed my attention because I associate the word ‘robusta’ with coffee. As with the page about the genus, the page about the species Opuntia robusta could do with some revision. At present it tells us that it grows ‘from 5,000 to 10,000 feet’, which struck me as unusually tall for a plant!
The linked page about Opuntia, the cochineal’s home and food source, would benefit from being revised somewhat. In the very first sentence we are told
Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers.
but then, just two paragraphs later,
Opuntia is regarded as an aggressive invasive species.
If Opuntia is a genus, how can it be regarded as an invasive species?
William wrote:Alfred wrote:£4 seems like a good price for a pair of small giclée prints. Is that excluding delivery?
No, delivery is included. For other orders delivery is extra, but it is included for these samples.
Thank you. I thought that might be the case, but it’s good to have it confirmed.
William wrote:For these A6 prints, each print landscape orientation, I used each frame in landscape orientation, so there is white space surrounding the prints, then the mount round that. Each print contains a colourful giclée print and also a good size area of unprinted paper. So not a typical layout for a print, yet very effective to show both the result of giclée printing on each type of paper and also a good size unprinted sample of the paper.
That does indeed sound very effective.
£4 seems like a good price for a pair of small giclée prints. Is that excluding delivery?
I see that the papers are specified as “240gsm archival matt and 310gsm cotton rag”. I also see that the print samples are A6 size (148 mm by 105 mm) but the smallest frame they supply is 7 inches by 5 inches, or 178 mm by 127 mm. Did you obtain your frames from elsewhere (perhaps having them delivered with your groceries, as I know you’ve done in the past)?
Jennymac7064 wrote:I have no interest in going over to Affinity Publisher. I feel like Serif threw the existing users under the bus when it set up the program to not be able to open pageplus files.
I don’t think they “set it up” to be unable to open PagePlus files, but rather chose not to pour development time into creating an importer that might well not have worked any better than the PDF importer which is more generally useful. However, a WritePlus importer would have been enormously helpful to PP users who have text-heavy documents that they want to work on in APub.
William wrote:Ah yes.
Good.
It is good, isn’t it!
You’re very welcome.
William wrote:quote
...
The waiter approaches.
“Good morning ma’am. We have obtained some greengage jam for you to have with your hot gluten-free toast today. What would you like to start?”
...
“Thank you for your prévenance about the food.” says Edith.
...
end quote
I notice that you habitually type
instead of using the ‘quote’ markup provided by the forum software. Do you have a particular aversion to quoted text being highlighted in a box? I find it helpful, but perhaps you don’t.
Welcome to the madhouse, Barry! Please check your email.
I don’t see how that could be avoided.
Unlike Serif PagePlus and Adobe InDesign documents, PDF documents don’t have ‘master’ or ‘parent’ pages.
For those who, like me, don’t live in England, it should be noted that the mayoral and local council elections that took place in the UK yesterday were not held in Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland.
The colours in the Sky logo seem to me to be in the wrong order. Blue for the Conservatives is correctly to the right of red for Labour, but orange for the centrist LibDems (Liberal Democrats) should be in the centre, as should yellow for the Liberals! I’m also pretty sure that the Greens wouldn’t expect to be characterized as standing to the right of the Conservatives.
Thanks, Eric. Good to know!
William wrote:Alfred wrote:William wrote:I wonder if there is a way to get the vanishing point over to the left
Have you tried simply asking Copilot to move it?
Copilot wrote:Let me know if you'd like me to refine or adjust any details further!
Er ... No. Uh. Ah.
William wrote:I wonder if there is a way to get the vanishing point over to the left
Have you tried simply asking Copilot to move it?
Copilot wrote:Let me know if you'd like me to refine or adjust any details further!
Thanks, Eric. An interesting aquarium, very nicely filmed.
ericlnz wrote:I find this comment interesting "Because of the refraction caused by light travelling through water, and the acrylic sheets used in the creation of the tunnel, the fish appear to be one third smaller than they are". That means the sharks etc are actually bigger than they look. Ouch!
Turning that the other way around, if they appear to be one third smaller then their actual size is half as much again as their apparent size.
William wrote:Please note that the time that I stated in the previous post is British Summer Time, the forum time is one hour behind.
Apologies. Individual users can set their own timezone preferences, but there is also a forum-wide setting that I neglected to change. It isn’t automatic, presumably because different countries ‘spring back’ on different dates, but I’ve changed it now: no doubt Eric (ericlnz) will let us know if this has screwed up his antipodean time display.
William wrote:Google translate has the translation of the word komorebi from Japanese into English as Sunlight filtering through the trees
Microsoft Bing translator offers a more succinct suggestion: dappled sunlight.
When written in Japanese, ‘komorebi’ looks like this: 木漏れ日
William wrote:I started this artwork-producing session by finding the size of A6 on the web
I’m afraid I started by making the unwarranted assumption that you calculated the dimensions yourself, based on the knowledge that A4 is 297 mm by 210 mm and that halving those dimensions and rounding down to whole numbers will give you the A6 dimensions 148 mm by 105 mm.
I overlooked the ‘perms’ discussion on the first page of this thread. As William pointed out, they’re really combinations rather than permutations.
But back to the football pools "PERM".
How do we get 165 from 8 out of 11?
Not knowing from the football pools application but from the maths classes, it is something like, eleven choices times ten choices times nine choices times ... four choices, divided by one times two times three times ... eight.
So lots of them cancel out, leaving eleven times ten times nine, divided by one times two times three.
So what is that?
Changing ten divided by two to five, and changing nine divided by three to three leaves eleven times five times three.
So eleven times fifteen.
Thirten squared is 169.
Thirteen minus eleven is two.
Two squared is 4.
169 - 4 = 165
How about that! Yay!
More simply, “eleven times ten times nine, divided by one times two times three” is 990 divided by 6, which is 165.
In general terms, the number of combinations of r results from n football matches is
n!/r!(n - r)!
which for 8 from 11 is
11! ÷ (8! × (11 - 8)!)
or
11! ÷ (8! × 3!)
i.e. (11! ÷ 8!) ÷ 3!
which equals
11 × 10 × 9 ÷ 6
William wrote:I want a landscape A6 size.
A6 size 105 x 148 mm 4.1 x 5.8 in
1748 pixels by 1240
Height is 1240 pixels.
Given that A6 size is defined in millimetres, I don’t understand why you’re working in pixels, which locks you into a particular document resolution. Be that as it may, 105 mm (4.134 in) is 1240 pixels and 148 mm (5.827 in) is 1748 pixels at 300 dpi.
That follows the convention of stating the width first, but
A6 size 105 x 148 mm 4.1 x 5.8 in
does not.
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