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William wrote:Alfred wrote:William wrote:Affinity Designer only goes up to 48 points on a star
The Star Tool in the iPad version of AD is limited to 48 points, but most of the shape tools in the desktop apps only have a low limit on the slider control. Try typing a larger number into the box.
Ah, yes. A sixty point star directly. 
Thank you.
William
You’re very welcome.
William wrote:The bounding box of the 30 pount stars is 1000 pixels.
At 300 dots per inch that is 3.33 inches.
3.3 inches is a bit over 84 mm.
300 pixels per inch is approximately 118.11 pixels per cm, or 11.811 pixels per mm. 1000 divided by 11.811 is about 84.7, which is somewhat closer to 85 than 84.
William wrote:Affinity Designer only goes up to 48 points on a star
The Star Tool in the iPad version of AD is limited to 48 points, but most of the shape tools in the desktop apps only have a low limit on the slider control. Try typing a larger number into the box.
Commemorative stamps were issued long before the 1960s! A quick search on the Interwebs found these from stampsforsale.co.uk:
William wrote:Is having a hobby of stamp collecting supposed to be something that "we" do not do?
Perhaps they’re just trying to tell you politely that (at least in relation to your job application) philately won’t get you anywhere!
I suppose that a decision also needs to be made as to how close to the glyph the minute hand goes. This could be tricky as the glyphs are wide.
This sounds like a very good argument for leaving the glyphs rotated.
Maybe a picture frame from Tesco could be adapted
Other picture frames are available!
jackneve wrote:Then, one hour ("summertime") adrift in the winter led to very dark mornings.
It remains dark here in the morning anyway, so not putting the clocks back doesn’t affect things much at that end of the day. When they kept BST all year round for a couple of years in the late 1970s I didn’t notice any downsides, and it was quite disappointing when they reverted to the status quo ante.
jackneve wrote:At the other end of the day it will be lighter, prolonging the evening.
My problem with the ‘prolonging the evening’ argument for switching to BST or any other kind of daylight saving time is that it gets dark pretty early during the winter months if you live as far north as I do. The need for more light in the winter evenings is therefore greater than in the summer evenings, but it gets taken away when we put the clocks back.
Double-clicking on the rotation paddle of a selected object will reset its rotation to 0°. The text needs to be centre-aligned rather than left- or right-aligned, with the centre middle anchor chosen in the Transform panel.
With the above in mind, open the attached Affinity Designer file and observe that the words in the 5 o’clock and 7 o’clock positions are currently ‘one’ and ‘six’ respectively, with the ‘one’ being upside down. Clicking on either of those words will result in its containing group being selected in the Layers panel, and clicking on the tiny triangle there will expand the group to allow access to the individual text objects without the need to ungroup anything.
Select the ‘one’ layer and double-click on its rotation paddle, and then edit the text to read five instead of one. Repeat the procedure for the text in the other group (to make it read seven instead of six) and then reset the rotation for the remaining words.
In the Tengwar topic the subject arose of distributing twelve glyphs evenly around a clock face, pushing the thread somewhat adrift from its ‘Art & Literature’ origins. The following three posts have been moved from that thread.
I’ve split off the posts that discuss the technical aspects of clock face design and I’ve moved them to here.
William wrote:For the design, if one has the glyphs each horizontal, if each glyph is in its own text box, centred, and start with one text box and make eleven copies so that they are all the same size and change the glyph for each as appropriate, then align them using numbers in the transform panel, using measurement about the centre, and calculate where to locate each centre using coordinates derived from the centre of the clock, the radius of a circle, and a choice as appropriate of values 0, 1, 0.5 and root3 upon 2.
Instead of starting with twelve copies of text box and doing numerous calculations to place them in a circle to form a clock face, start with just two copies: one at 12 o’clock and another at 6 o’clock. Group them and duplicate the group, and then rotate the duplicate by 30° to yield boxes at the 1 o’clock and 7 o’clock positions. Duplicate and rotate by 30° again for 2 o’clock and 8 o’clock, again for 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock, again for 4 o’clock and 10 o’clock, and one last time for 5 o’clock and 11 o’clock.
William wrote:I have attached a file containing the characters of the text of the poem.
I don’t see an attachment, William. Am I looking in the wrong place?
Be aware it’s the Ides of March!
William wrote:It is possible, yet not certain, that more posts will be made and become archived.
Isn’t that “possible, yet not certain” in relation to every thread? 
ericlnz wrote:I still have WebPlus X5 which I used for my personal website a few years ago. Unfortunately Webring where I had it have disappeared and I haven't found another free hosting site where I can upload pages to. Most free sites require you to use their web creators.
000webhost is free if you only have one small website and you don’t need multiple FTP accounts.
https://www.000webhost.com/cheap-web-hosting
Thanks for posting here, Eric. The DrawPlus section is another neglected one, and (surprisingly) the WebPlus section is yet another.
Steve wrote:I'm still using MVP X6, though I'm trying to get to grips with Shotcut . . . not too successfully.
What attracted you to Shotcut (apart from its being free and open-source!) and what difficulties have you encountered?
jackneve wrote:It takes place in Wiemar (not sure of the spelling) in Germany
Quick German spelling/pronunciation tip: the vowel sequences EI and IE are pronounced like the English name of the second letter, so “mein” sounds like “mine” and “die” rhymes with “see”. It follows that the correct spelling is Weimar ('vie-mar) rather than Wiemar ('vee-mar).
jackneve wrote:I've been using Jarte for years; it's very useful as a quick notepad. It has several functions, I guess,
that I haven't exploited.
What basic functions haven’t you exploited thus far, Jack? Are there any additional functions that you’re pleased to have available to you now that you’ve downloaded Jarte Plus?
jackneve wrote:I was inspired by a recent post in another thread to download Jarte plus.
I thought I recalled your being a long-standing Jarte user, Jack, and I wondered whether you had upgraded to Jarte Plus. Now I know!
Jarte, a word processor based on Microsoft WordPad, has always been free, with an option to upgrade to Jarte Plus for a small fee. Now that development of Jarte has ceased and support is no longer provided by the developer, you can download Jarte Plus for free.
Thanks for the links, gentlemen.
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