I am trying to find an Affinity Publisher source file on my computer.

Basically, in the My Attachments part of the Serif Affinity forum I have found a png file made in 2019 and it says that I made it using Affinity Publisher. So i would have made it as a vector image and exported a png file.

I don't tend to delete files and I think that it would have been on this present computer, though i am not congruently certain if that.

But what I am wnting to do is to search the whole of the computer for all .afpub files.

I tried searching for .afpub but it just started the Affinity Publisher program.

Early on files went into various folders.

Is there a way to do that to search through all folders on the computer pleasr?

William

Somewhere in a thread in these forums, mention was made of a BBC programme about the Bayeux Tapestry.

This is a thread to hopefully make that information more widely known.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m … x-tapestry

William

I have been looking at the following.

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/fine … /lots/2136

The first 10 lots are incunabula, and lot 11 is only one year after the incunabula period.

Thus far I have only beeen looking at Lot 1 in detail.

Clicking on the picture produces access to three pictures, each of which can be magnified using the horizontal slider beneath the illustration, and one can drag the cursor around to display the various parts of the enlarged image.

I have learned from it, and I have found a wikpedia page about the printer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Rusch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incunable

William

I remembered a cartoon that I saw in a newspaper in probably around 1960 I think.

Two neighbours at their garden gates, each facing the newspaper reader.

An elderly one at the left has a round notice on the gate, with "No circulars" on it.

The young one at the right has a square notice on the gate, with "No squares" on it.

https://www.lexico.com/definition/square meaning 5

Has that phrasing gone out of fashion?

It reminded me of the word 'beatnik', is that now a word of its era, not used today except in historical contexts?

https://www.lexico.com/definition/beatnik

Had younger readers here ever known the word 'beatnik' before now?

William

I saw this:

https://home.unicode.org/emoji-are-not- … -are-made/

Near the end of the document is the follwing.

Shall we have a go at devising an inline way to express images, such as custom emoji, in a text stream?

Here is my first idea.

A sixteen by sixteen bitmap image format for inline emoji.

Start with

#! to identify the sequence as a graphic to this format.

End with

%

Then a sequence of pairs of an uppercase letter to represent a colour, and a lowercase letter to indicate how many of that coloiur, from lowercase a for 1 to lowercase p for 16. A run of a number of colour cells cannot go over the end of a line onto the next line. However, if a colour directly follows a clour with no lowercase letter then a value of 1 is used. So a lowercase a is optional.

Colours

K Black
N Brown
R Red
O Orange
Y Yellow
G Green
B Blue
V Violet
E Grey
W White
C Cyan
P Pink
D Dark Grey
L Light Grey
S Sky Blue

So a graphic is an absolute minimum of 35 characters

Any carriage returns or line feeds in the sequence are ignored, an asterish is also ignored, it can be used to indicate an end oif line to assist manual comprehension if desiref.

This is a basic system.

It could be expanded, so please join in with ideas and enthusiasm if you so choose.

For example, a graphic could be defined by a code number, then stored locally and then used multiple times just by using the code number.

For example, maybe something like

#!=1; then the rest of the sequence,

to define local graphic number 1.

Then it could be

#!~1%

to use it within a text stream.

But that is just a basic bitmap format with a limited range of colours, but it is a start.

So bitmap, vector, and other possibilities such as more colours and so on remain on the horizon.

William