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(13 replies, posted in Affinity Studio)

Not long left now, Geoff! Did you go out for a curry as usual?

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(13 replies, posted in Affinity Studio)

Thanks for your good advice, Geoff!

I hope you’re enjoying your special day. https://punster.me/images/happybday.gifhttps://punster.me/images/phpbb3/smilies/occasion/partyblower.gif

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(13 replies, posted in Affinity Studio)

Text imported into an Affinity document from a PDF file tends to be somewhat broken up, even if you choose the import option that’s supposed to make it easier to edit. A simpler workflow is to start by exporting the text from the WritePlus text editor within PagePlus and then import the exported text into your Affinity document (with autoflow) before adding the images.

Thank you for posting about the new version of Mike’s guide, Ali!

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(4 replies, posted in WebPlus)

Welcome, Martin! Thanks for sharing your insights about WPX7 on Win 11.

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(8 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Merry Christmas to you and yours, Karen, and thank you for sharing your beautiful page here.

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(8 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Merry Christmas to you too, Ali! Thanks for starting this thread with such a stylish image.

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(4 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Ali wrote:

But (and it's a big 'but')

I like big ‘buts’ and I cannot lie. Or summat.

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(20 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

William last posted here two months ago (exactly two months ago yesterday, as it happens) and I replied to that post the very same evening. That was on a Tuesday, and I can see that he visited again on the following Saturday morning but he didn’t post a response.

The only forum member whom I know for certain to be a Welsh speaker has never actually made any posts here!

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(4 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Thanks to a thread on CreoFora, I’ve made the surprising discovery that despite there being only around 60,000 speakers of «Rätoromanisch» (Romansh) — mostly in Switzerland, but also in northern Italy — it has four dialects.

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(1 replies, posted in Affinity Studio)

Pioneer wrote:

Ok may have found it "mask layer"

I hope “may have found it” meant you did actually find it, Vicki, but it does sound as though you did! When you paint on a mask layer, white reveals (full opacity) and black conceals (no opacity) whilst grey gives you something in between (partial opacity).

By the way, if someone else had answered your question they would have supplied their answer as a reply to your original post. When you’re able to supply the answer yourself, it’s clearer to everyone if you do the same: leave your original post unedited and put your solution in a new post.

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(20 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Alfred wrote:

dyffryn is a broad flat valley

I’ve just listened to the word dyffryn on Google Translate. It sounded more like ‘duff-RIN’ than the ‘DUFF-run’ that I expected (i.e. not only a different stress pattern, but also ‘rin’ rather than ‘run’ for the second syllable).

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(20 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

GB wrote:

...and Cymru is pronounced as "kumri", not, as I've heard Englishmen say "kimru"!

Anywhere in the UK you’d have to avoid broadcast political news coverage like the proverbial plague in order not to have heard that ‘Plaid Cymru’ (the Welsh nationalist party that was founded 100 years ago) is pronounced ‘plied kumri’, not ‘played kimru’ or ‘plad kimru’.

On a related note, I’m not sure when or why the Scottish Nationalist Party renamed themselves as the Scottish National Party.

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(20 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

GB wrote:

My slight knowledge of Welsh suggests that both "y" and "w" are used as vowels in that language.

My slight knowledge of Welsh told me that “cwm” is a valley, where the “w” sounds like a short version of the “oo” in “room”. Looking it up on the Interwebs, I’ve discovered that cwm is a deep narrow valley whilst dyffryn is a broad flat valley.

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(1 replies, posted in Share your work (no AI))

Nicely done, Vicki! But you must’ve spent a small fortune on the ink for printing multiple sheets with such a colourful design.

Vicki wrote:

And yes 2026 was a mistake

Never mind what the date should’ve been for the current year. This way you get to use the same design (or a modified version of it) again next year, without any need to change the date.

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(1,162 replies, posted in MoviePlus)

pberk wrote:

the Hedra.com lip sync that turns a single image into a lip sync video


Pretty impressive, especially given that it’s available for free if you only need it for modest amounts of non-commercial use.

https://www.hedra.com/pricing

I was amused to note that the cost of the Free plan is specified as “$0 / month BILLED MONTHLY”.


pberk wrote:

The trick is to get the lip sync video to show the correct emotion at the right time.  There, I think I succeeded.

I think you succeeded admirably, Paul! Thanks for sharing the results of your hard work.

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(1,162 replies, posted in MoviePlus)

Albert Ross wrote:

Thanks Alfred, but I had already worked that out! The joke was not lost on me. My comment was simply a counter 'joke', not hilariously funny I will admit but I do try my best at this festive time of year.

Sorry, Albert, I didn’t think the joke was lost on you! I was actually commenting on Gordon’s attempt to deflect by remarking about being unable to see anything wrong with the ant’s legs.

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(4 replies, posted in Affinity Studio)

I knew you were a Windows user, Vicki! I would expect the option to be present on both Win 11 and Win 10, and this seems like a curious omission.

Obviously we can retrieve the printer margins by other means (including the Affinity version 1 and 2 apps) but we shouldn’t have to do that.

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(4 replies, posted in Affinity Studio)

Information from elsewhere indicates that Windows has the ability to retrieve the printer margins from the printer but macOS does not. I can confirm that the option is (unexpectedly) not available to me in Affinity Studio on Windows 10 Pro.

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(20 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Thanks, Ali! I’m not sure I would say it was “given” to him when it was used as part of the burial preparations, but myrrh was clearly involved at the end of Jesus’ life as well as the beginning.

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(20 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Alfred wrote:

clearly nonsense

The original article on kotaku.com also stated that myrrh was one of the things given to Jesus when he died, when in fact it was one of the gifts — along with gold and frankincense — that were given to him by the Magi (the “three kings of Orient”) shortly after he was born.

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(20 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

GB wrote:

Today's NYT Wordle seems to have upset a lot of people! https://avast.1news.io/news/106278dad22 … medium=ntp

The “Detailed Summary” is followed by a link to the original article. Both state that “myrrh” contains no vowels, which is clearly nonsense since (as in so many English words) the “y” functions as a vowel here. Anyone who knows anything about ancient mariners should be able to tell you that “rhyme” has just as many vowels as “rime” does.

GB wrote:

My first two guesses gave me no clues, but I did get the correct answer (myrrh) on my sixth guess.

My first guess had no correct letters. My second guess was ROUST, which not only told me there was at least one “r” elsewhere in the word but also that there was no “o” and no “t”, so when I overlooked that for my fourth guess WordleBot rewarded me with a skill score of 0. I solved the puzzle on my next turn.

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(1,162 replies, posted in MoviePlus)

Albert Ross wrote:

Who said anything about the legs of the ant?!

I’m guessing that when Gordon read your comment “Very well done, just a shame about those legs!!” he either assumed or pretended to assume that you were referring to the ant’s legs rather than his own!

It’s good that Affinity Studio has this feature, but it clearly isn’t going to suit everyone in its present form.

Image Trace Issue - Feature Limitation or Bug?

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(82 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Welcome, Andrew! It’s good to see you here.

I’m looking forward to reading the progress reports about your Meadow Weaver project.