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Good to hear, Sandy. And, you’re welcome!
I can’t reproduce that problem here, but if you do need to recolour the cell borders you should be able to do it via the same method as you used originally. Did you go down the ‘Table > Cell Properties… > Border’ route, or did you do it a different way?
Thanks for the update, Lon. I’m sure I’m not the only one here who would be interested to see your pictorial memorialization when you feel ready to share it.
Thanks for the update. It is indeed very frustrating when service providers make changes like that without telling their customers! Sadly, I’m sure you won’t be the last person to fall victim to this.
Sandy wrote:Tom's method was a two-fold operation and was easy to achieve, but your method Alfred I couldn't fathom - after all these years! I wanted to do the operation in one hit in X4- using Button Text, so I typed in: -
TOP HALF OF CIRCLE and below it: -
BOTTOM HALF OF CIRCLE then centred both.
I then chose Path - Button, whereupon top text was normal, but bottom text was back to front?
Using Reverse Curves - changed both: top back to front and bottom ok
In X9 there is Path - Badge which works ok - perhaps in can't be done in X4 and need the two circle operation that Tom suggested?
If you type the text for the top half on the first line and the text for the bottom half on the second line, the ‘Reverse Curve’ button flips the top text but leaves the bottom text unchanged. This provides a clue to the solution, which is that you need to start with the text the other way around. Type
bottom text on first line
top text on second line
both as centre-aligned Artistic Text, and then choose ’Path - Button’ from the flyout at the end of the Context toolbar. Click on one of the three nodes (the black one at the top or either of the red ones) to populate the Context toolbar with node-editing buttons, and then click on ‘Reverse Curves’ (the last button on the toolbar); this will flip the first line of text, so everything will be upside down at this point. Rotate the object through 180° to put it the right way up with the ‘second line’ text at the top and the ‘first line’ text at the bottom.
I’ve never been to Wolverhampton, and February 1956 is a bit before my time, but some of our fellow forum members may remember the event. Thanks for sharing the link to your article about it.
Alfred wrote:“Here’s one I made earlier.”
The attached Affinity Designer file shows swatches for the 12-colour set, with a list of their names underneath. When you open it in AD, you should find that there’s a document palette (‘Staedtler 12’) in the Swatches panel. I’ll leave it as an exercise for you to create an application palette that you can use in other drawings.
The attached Affinity Designer file shows swatches for the 24-colour set (in two groups of 12, to keep the additional ones separate from the original ones so that you can inspect either half in isolation). Once again, for each group there is a list of the names of the colours in that group, but I’ve also added the colour names to the swatches and the layers.
denlevy wrote:Very frustrating for years it worked without problem. Any ideas as I'm stumped.
It sounds very much as though they’ve changed something at their end, but you’d think they might know that! Who is your hosting company? Have they perhaps switched from FTP to either FTPS or SFTP (both of which are supported by WPX8, but some of the connection details are different)?
William wrote:I clicked on the Pale Blue that Alfred supplied, and that locked in as the fill at both upper left and upper right. But if I swapped at the right, then the Pencil Tool was Pale Blue but the filled colour in Alfred's Palette changed colour to what was previously the fill colour.
What you’re calling “Alfred’s Palette” is simply the Document Palette. If you change the contents of the document, the Document Palette will change accordingly.
Create a new palette as an Application Palette and add whatever colours you want (e.g. some or all of the colours in the current document). Then when you change the contents of the document, the Document Palette will change but the Application Palette will not, and you will be able to use your carefully assembled palette colours in other documents.
William wrote:wondering what to do next
It looks as though you’ve already decided what to do next!
William wrote:I want to have an A4 landscape document with a rectangle as a guide, the rectangle centred and 8.5 inches wide by 6.5 inches high for compatibility with the picture that I drew with the physical coloured pencils, and so that if I get a print from Viking Virtual Print House then the print will fit well into one of the Tesco A4 frames with a mount that I have so as to produce a finished work of art.
Thank you for your explanation. You really ought to try drawing on your graphics tablet: it should yield a much more natural experience than a trackpad.
William wrote:I have found on my laptop computer that using an external USB keyboard and mousekeys to press down and hold down while using the Pencil Tool of Affinity Designer is much easier to use than keeping push down pressure on the trackpad of the laptop computer.
I’m not at all sure what you’re describing!
William wrote:One needs to use the keys at the far right of a full USB external keyboard
/50 to push down and it stays down until
. releases.
Again, I’m not sure what you mean. Are you referring to the numeric keypad?
William wrote:Thank you.
4 downloads so far.
You’re welcome.
At least one of those downloads was mine, checking that the link worked correctly.
William wrote:I think that the next stage is to try to draw a similar picture in Affinity Designer using the same colour palette as for the picture that I drew with the twelve colour pencil set. That will involve me setting up the colours in Affinity Designer, but I want to try to do it by making a palette that can be used in various drawings, so I need to learn how to do that. Doing it as a vector drawing so that it could be printed out huge (in my dreams!)
“Here’s one I made earlier.”
The attached Affinity Designer file shows swatches for the 12-colour set, with a list of their names underneath. When you open it in AD, you should find that there’s a document palette (‘Staedtler 12’) in the Swatches panel. I’ll leave it as an exercise for you to create an application palette that you can use in other drawings.
On a somewhat related note, I was interested to discover this page on the Staedtler website:
https://www.staedtler.com/uk/en/discover/noris-digital
I suspected as much. I also suspect it’s quite a niche area, and I’d therefore be pleasantly surprised if they do become available in grocery stores (other than, perhaps, the very largest ones).
An interesting idea, but would they thank us??
William wrote:Ooh!
The thing is I got the 12 pencil set and the 24 pencil set delivered with the grocery by Tesco.
Where can someone get the 36 pencil set please?
The search is on!
William
I’m just wondering if you’re still interested in the set of 36 pencils, William. Perhaps you’ve decided that 24 is more than adequate for your current needs!
Sandy wrote:Morning Alfred,
For 'fried' read 'excited'.
Thanks, Sandy.
Sandy wrote:PagePlus X4 seemed to have everything I needed for my football work and so stayed with it - what's that - now 15 years or so?
I just looked it up: 2009, so your 15 years is spot on!
Sandy wrote:I do use X9 by the way for other projects. I also have X5 and X6, as I imagine like most Serif users back in those days we purchased every incarnation as they were issued. I somehow can't see Affinity going that way?
Ah, the old days of upgrades for £9.99 — plus the dreaded shipping and handling charges! And if you also purchased the Resource CD for an additional £9.99, you got a free copy of the printed User Guide. No, I can’t see Affinity going that way, either, but the launch offer (40% off) for the Universal Licence for the version 2 apps was a pretty good deal.
Sandy wrote:Back then we were one big family - which the old forums showed. It wasn't just the 'product', it was the 'users' - the family.
Sadly, that all began to crumble away when the old forums were replaced by CommunityPlus, especially so when they decided to remove the navigation bar’s link to the Discussion section.
That looks OK to me, Paul! Just as ‘affect’ is usually but not always a verb, ‘effect’ is usually a noun but is quite frequently a verb, as in ‘He wanted to effect change’ (where it means to accomplish or bring into being). Having said that, I suspect that most of us wouldn’t generally talk about ‘effecting’ an accent.
Sandy wrote:I have X9, plus loads of other Serif software, but X4 fried me when it came out and still in constant use 24/7.
It ‘fried’ you, did it? I have to confess that I’m not familiar with that usage.
For what little it’s worth, I don’t think I would want to use anything older than PPX6 or possibly X5, but perhaps you have no need of support for OpenType features.
Sandy wrote:so pleased to find Alfred's forum
I’m so pleased you found it, too!
Alfred wrote:Where’s the ‘rimshot’ GIF when you need it? 
Ah, found it!
Alan Hodkinson wrote:He started with Gainsborough Studio as a Lift Boy when he left school, I suppose that's a good way to go up in the world
Where’s the ‘rimshot’ GIF when you need it?
pberk wrote:Nice effect. Or is that affect? I forget.
Effect, since you ask! Affect is usually a verb (although in linguistics it refers to the attitude or emotion that you convey by the way you say something).
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