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(18 replies, posted in PagePlus)

Johnk wrote:

Well the PDF is 4 meg in size, too big to send as an email attachment

You wouldn’t be sending it as an email attachment here, of course, you would be sending it as a forum attachment. I’m sorry to say that I can’t find a setting to increase the (apparently rather small) attachment limit, and I’m quite surprised that — as far as I can see — there isn’t an indication anywhere of what the limit actually is.

Johnk wrote:

but if you send me an email I can share it to you from Google drive.

Do you have a particular reason for preferring to share the link privately, rather than simply posting it here?

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(11 replies, posted in DrawPlus)

Moth wrote:

Makes me chuckle how we drift on to breakfast cereals.

In the old Serif Forum days (custom code, predating the vBulletin incarnation) going off topic was more or less mandatory, but that didn’t seem to stop users getting the help they needed. The Affinity Forums don’t even have a general discussion area, so if you just want to chat with your fellow Serif software users the best place now seems to be here.

Moth wrote:

FWIW I'm a muesli man myself. Best soaked with a fun size apple chopped up in it. Muesli eaten dried and straight from the packet with negligible soaking does little to promote the virtues of the stuff which originated as an ostensibly fresh fruit dish.

I think most of the dried stuff includes apple flakes, so a good long soak is probably more beneficial than adding yet more apple that you’ve gone to the trouble of freshly chopping yourself.

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(4 replies, posted in WebPlus)

pberk wrote:

But along these lines, if the only change you make is the order of a pull down menu or a pull down sub menu, what do you upload to make those changes?  In other words, you are not making any changes to a webpage but only to the menu system. So what do you upload to make those changes without reloading the entire site?

The thing is, Paul, if you change a pulldown menu or submenu then you’re changing what you want displayed on every page that uses those menus. So I can’t see any easy way to avoid reloading the entire site.

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(11 replies, posted in DrawPlus)

Upon further investigation, Grape Nuts are offered by all of the major UK supermarkets but Grape Nuts Flakes are nowhere to be found.

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(11 replies, posted in DrawPlus)

GB wrote:

Reading the comments on the Grocer site, I see someone mentions Grape Nuts Flakes by Post. I don't know if they are available in the UK, but they are readily available here, and are indeed very similar to Force.

Thanks, Geoff. I didn’t read the comments.

I frequently had Grape Nuts for breakfast as a child, and probably as a young adult, too, but I wasn’t aware of the existence of a ‘Flakes’ variant. I imagine the original Grape Nuts are easier/cheaper to distribute because the boxes are so small.

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(7 replies, posted in WebPlus)

Welcome, Mark! Thanks for joining us here.

HarpyMark wrote:

This assumes you're on Windows (can't remember if WebPlus was ever available on mac anyway as it's been a while...!)

Although you can run WebPlus via Boot Camp or Parallels Desktop, none of the ‘Plus’ software products were ever made available for use natively on platforms other than Windows.

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(11 replies, posted in DrawPlus)

GB wrote:

About the bus: it developed slowly!

Much of my career with MoT involved buses, which in South London were mainly London Transport.
That particular one is roughly the same age as me.
The placard on the side reads "Community Bus" inspired by Serif's "Community Plus".
It is actually a model given away by Force Wheat Flakes (my favourite breakfast cereal from way back - taken over by Nestle's and killed).

Force cereal was apparently stocked at Sainsbury’s and Waitrose until Cereal Partners (a joint venture between Nestlé and General Mills) took the decision to stop making it just over a decade ago:

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/cereals/for … 14.article

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(18 replies, posted in PagePlus)

Johnk wrote:

Probably not a viable proposition after all but I can still let anyone have any PDF for the subjects I mentioned. just let me know and I'll send you it.
John

Is it too big to attach to this thread, John?

William wrote:

Does anyone know what is going on please?

This sounds very much like what’s known in the trade as a BSOD (‘Blue Screen Of Death’). Your computer is sick — although not necessarily terminally so, despite the inclusion of the word ‘Death’ in the expansion of the acronym BSOD.

William wrote:

32 views thus far.

As noted previously, this is a rather meaningless statistic. Some (many?) of the ‘viewers’ may be bots, and the human viewers who haven’t posted have either decided they aren’t interested or don’t feel that they have anything useful to contribute to the discussion.

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(11 replies, posted in DrawPlus)

Welcome, Tim! Thanks for joining us here.

I’d love to be able to offer some practical suggestions, but DPX6 mostly crashes for me on Windows 10 when I try to set up button text (curved at top and bottom, blank in the middle). I did get halfway there once, and on that occasion I was able to move the text baseline so that the circle was at the top of the text instead of the bottom, but that’s clearly of limited use if there isn’t a ‘recipe’ to make it work consistently without crashing.

I wonder why one translation says ‘brightly’ whilst the other one says ‘calmly’. Not the same thing at all!

Joe wrote:

Is the video a youtube video? What is the name of your video and does it end with .mp4 or something else?

If it's only .99Mb can you upload it with your next post? Use the attachments, browse button and add file buttons located above the submit reply button.

Joe

Please note that there is no attachments option if you use the ‘Quick reply’ box. You need to use the Post reply link instead.

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(328 replies, posted in General Discussion)

When a boy told the teacher that his dad is a magician, the teacher asked what magic tricks his dad could perform and the boy said that he could saw people in half. The teacher asked the boy if he has any siblings and the boy said he had one half sister and two half brothers.

Thanks, both. The new topic is here.

Article on Medium

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/96VuzKCxtZg/hqdefault.jpg
YouTube: Mona Lisa rapping Paparazzi

I believe ARM-based Windows is very much the ‘new kid on the block’, having been introduced only in the last five years or so. ARM (Acorn RISC Machine) itself dates back to the late 1980s.

RISC stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer, so it isn’t as risky as it sounds! There have been versions of Windows for other devices such as mobile phones, but I doubt that they’re still in use.

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(0 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Julien Alfred has won the women's 100m final in Paris to claim St Lucia's first ever Olympic medal.

'She has made history' - Alfred powers to 100m title

I’m sure your question is a Frequently Asked Question, Geoff, so I’m very surprised that there’s no link to the relevant FAQ article:

What is the difference between Windows Installer types and which one should I use?

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(328 replies, posted in General Discussion)

One day a barber gave a haircut to a priest. When the priest tried to pay for it the barber refused, saying, “You do God’s work.”

The next morning the barber found a dozen bibles at the door to his shop.

A policeman came to the barber for a haircut, and again the barber refused to let him pay, saying, “You protect the public.”

The next morning the barber found a dozen doughnuts at the door to his shop.

A lawyer came to the barber for a haircut, and again the barber refused payment, saying, “You serve the justice system.”

The next morning the barber found a dozen lawyers waiting for a free haircut.

Jason wrote:

My website doesn't collect personal data, however I'm not sure if my website uses cookies.

WebPlus sites don’t write any cookies unless you explicitly add code to do so, but if you really, really want to add Cookiebot code to your site then you simply need to paste the code

<script id="Cookiebot" src="https://consent.cookiebot.com/uc.js" data-cbid="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" type="text/javascript" data-blockingmode="auto"></script>

into the ‘Head Code’ section of an HTML Code Fragment object, replacing

00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

with your unique Cookiebot ID.

Cookie consent is only relevant if your website collects personal data. Why would you need to ask for permission for something that you aren’t going to do?

Welcome, Helge! Thanks for joining us here.

I’ve only ever heard of Serif product keys being rejected as having been ‘used too many times’ when someone has distributed pirate copies. Did you purchase your copy direct from Serif, or from an official reseller, or privately (e.g. via Amazon Marketplace or eBay)?

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ericlnz wrote:

The "woven" animals were impressive.

Yes, very. I wonder who made them, and how long it took.

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(675 replies, posted in MoviePlus)

Albert Ross wrote:

... and we did buy a book about them with some nice illustrations.

I suspect that’s exactly why they won’t let you take pictures of your own!

Thanks for sharing your video here.

Joe Biden ends re-election campaign

US President Joe Biden has announced that he will end his candidacy for re-election, saying "it is in the best interest of my party and the country".

It comes four months before Americans go to the polls, upending the race for the White House.

It follows weeks of intense pressure from fellow Democrats after a faltering debate performance against Republican Donald Trump at the end of June.