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Yet another gem! Thanks for the link, Paul.

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Former University of Iowa Hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years

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Cryptogram wrote:

I've still got problems!! Can you help?

Are you looking for help with editing in PagePlus, or help with attaching images here, or both? https://punster.me/images/unsure.gif

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The Borowitz Report: Trump Forced to Sell Prized Collection of House Republicans

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Thanks for the feedback, Daniel.

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Paul: I completely agree!

Geoff: Almost a religion? Whaddya mean, almost??

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A man starts work in a zoo. It’s a big zoo so they give him a golf buggy to drive between the different parts of the site.

Anyway, he’s in the bird house. He finishes what he’s doing and gets into the golf buggy. But because he’s not used to it, he accidentally puts it into reverse.

Suddenly he hears a *thump*.

He climbs out of the golf buggy and realizes he’s run over a chaffinch.

Not wanting to get into trouble, he decides to dispose of the body. So he drives over to the lion enclosure, and chucks the chaffinch’s body over the fence, in the hope that the lions will eat the evidence.

Anyway, later, he’s in the monkey house. He finishes what he’s doing and gets into the golf buggy. The same thing happens and he accidentally puts it into reverse again.

Sure enough, he hears another *thump*.

He climbs out of the golf buggy again, and this time he’s run over a couple of chimpanzees.

He drives over to the lion enclosure again, and chucks the chimpanzee bodies over the fence, in the hope that the lions will eat the evidence.

Anyway, later, he’s in the insect house. He finishes what he’s doing and gets back into the golf buggy. Inevitably, he accidentally puts it into reverse again.

*Thump*.

This time, he’s run over a bees’ nest and crushed all the bees into a gooey paste.

He scoops up the mess, drives over to the lion enclosure, and chucks it all over the fence.

The next day a new lion arrives at the zoo.

‘Alright?’ he says to the other lions. ‘Alright?’, they reply.

‘What’s this zoo like then?’, he asks. ‘It’s OK’ they reply.

‘What’s the food like?’

‘It’s OK. Yesterday, we had finch, chimps and mushy bees’.

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Bobbus wrote:

Sometimes, a trial print in Draft mode helps check the orientation is correct for both sides etc.

Alternatively, publish as PDF. Then you’ll be able to check it in your favourite PDF viewer instead of wasting expensive ink/toner and paper.

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DEH wrote:

Is there any chance a kind user has PagePlus X7 in any digital format they would be willing to share please? I have my key and generic registration code. I’ve successfully reinstalled DrawPlus and PhotoPlus so this is my last hurdle.

Welcome, Daniel! Please check your email.

Ashley Hewson wrote:

To address some of what is being said on this thread...

Firstly to be clear I'm not a founder, but have been with the company for 25 years. I'm officially appointed as Managing Director of the company, but also use CEO as my title as that is my role in terms of how other countries would view it.

Both Canva and us have made 100% clear we are committing to perpetual licences always being available. That will include V3 or any other future major upgrade of our apps which are released. What's more I will say with Canva's backing we are not under the same financial pressure we would have been to release a V3 anytime soon, meaning those of you using V2 will actually benefit from more features as free updates which may previously have been held back for a V3 if that makes sense. This is of great benefit from an engineering standpoint too as we are far better testing and releasing features in smaller chunks than saving them up to package up as a sellable upgrade.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1194508

Ashley Hewson wrote:

To followup [sic] on some of my comments yesterday, we are today enshrining our commitment to the Affinity community in 4 pledges made by the Affinity and Canva teams.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1193400

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/uploads/monthly_2024_03/image.png.bd147b017d436048de3c2f089e986d95.png

I don’t think so, Paul, but I do wonder whether the perpetual licence model will survive beyond the current version 2 of the Affinity apps.

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ericlnz wrote:

Tom - sorry I don't understand your last sentence.

I imagine that Tom is thinking of remote connection software such as TeamViewer.

ericlnz wrote:

Can you not copy the project material to a thumb drive using the same folder structure as on your pc hard drive.  Then when MVP cannot locate a file you tell it where it is and MVP automatically finds the rest?  You then need to save the project otherwise it will ask again next time the project is opened.

Easy if you’ve kept your project media neatly together in one place, not so easy if everything is scattered across multiple locations!

ericlnz wrote:

If for some reason it doesn't work with a thumb drive use an external hard drive.  They are pocket size nowadays.  I have no problems opening old projects using source material on an external drive.

I wouldn’t expect a thumb drive not to work for this if an external hard drive works OK.

An announcement from Ash Hewson, Managing Director of Serif (Europe) Ltd

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GStree wrote:

It's just as well that we have a much larger pool 2 minutes walk down the road, it's called the Mediterranean Ocean !

It always seems very counterintuitive that there can be water shortages when an ocean is within easy reach.

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kevinbecken wrote:

... (100%, or minimum compression) is slightly lossy, so it’s a good idea not to go any lower unless you need to....

100% agree with this.

Thanks for your endorsement, Kevin!

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GStree wrote:

Is there anyone out there !!!!!

I’ve been wondering the same thing, Gordon! Maybe it’s something to do with the equinox the other day.

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KarenPL wrote:

https://i.postimg.cc/wyFgGbwm/Punny-Pete-PUNdora.jpg

https://punster.me/images/myopera/myg/haha.gif

William wrote:

I would not be so sure as in the title of the article.

I wouldn’t be so sure, either! What it actually says is

The incredible new £400m UK train station and railway line passengers will never get to us

but it’s obviously meant to say

The incredible new £400m UK train station and railway line passengers will never get to use

If I had been writing it I would have inserted the word ‘that’ between ‘line’ and ‘passengers’ to make it easier to read, but perhaps that’s just me!

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Pioneer wrote:

I know you need a program to extract to codecs from our existing XP installation.  Where do we get the program and how does one use it please? Or am I still able to do this through the existing application as described by Serif.

You do it through the existing application. I’ve never known any other way.

Pioneer wrote:

Once extracted how does one go about getting the MoviePlus X6 program to find it and install it?

Please see this post. (Thanks, Albert!)

Pioneer wrote:

As regards the download you supplied is the patch an update to the main program and should we just run the patch after we have installed MoviePlus X6

Yes and yes (but my recent reinstallation of ImpactPlus 5 resulted in the newly installed program automatically looking for, and finding, an update patch on Serif’s servers).

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ESD (Electronic Software Download) files for MoviePlus weren’t ever made publicly available alongside the others. As far as I’m aware, this is because of the complex licensing agreements involved. Anyway, ericlnz shared a zip archive of the contents of the MvPX6 installation disc some time ago, and I have a copy of that file. I’ll send you a link via PM shortly: please look out for the PM link (near the top right-hand corner of any forum page) becoming bold.

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ALNC wrote:

when should I choose a I.Q. lower than "best quality" and what would be the ideal quality for press printing?

Even “best quality” (100%, or minimum compression) is slightly lossy, so it’s a good idea not to go any lower unless you need to; e.g. for email, where you could find that anything above 2 MB is too big to send, or for web pages, where multiple large images will result in long page load times.

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kevinbecken wrote:

Hi, Printers recommend a resolution of 300 pixels per inch to retain the best image quality. Also remember to add bleed size to the image, usually 3mm beyond the print size, if you want your images to print to the very edge of the paper.

Document resolution is separate from the question of the best JPEG compression setting.

There’s a section of PagePlus where you can specify the amount of bleed, if any. This is generally preferable to increasing the page size to allow for bleed.

kevinbecken wrote:

If your images have multiple layers, with any transparency, then the safest option is to merge the layers to a flat image, else you can have problems.

JPEG is a flat file format that doesn’t support transparency, so any layers will automatically be combined and any transparent areas will automatically become white when you export to JPEG.

kevinbecken wrote:

Printers also say to submit CMYK, but I have always stuck to RGB and let the printer do the conversion. I've found PP will distort the RGB to CMYK conversion colours.

The experience that you describe seems to be quite common, Kevin. I suspect it would be less of a problem if printers gave proper advice about which particular CMYK profile to use, but in the absence of such information I think your recommendation of sticking to RGB is very good advice.

kevinbecken wrote:

I always output to PDF, and the printer I use can handle any version of this.

One of the ‘flavours’ of PDF/X should be suitable, but it’s always best to ask your printer what they would prefer.

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LAWYER: Doctor, did you say he was shot in the woods?

WITNESS: No, I said he was shot in the lumbar region.

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LAWYER: Now sir, I'm sure you are an intelligent and honest man—

WITNESS: Thank you. If I weren't under oath, I'd return the compliment.