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dcr wrote:What we are calling "AI" is marketing hype. There's no intelligence there, artificial or otherwise. There is no understanding, no comprehension, no sign of any intelligence at all.
As I observed here, AI isn’t intelligent but it tries to look as though it is.
Alfred wrote:Back in Alan Turing’s day, Artificial Intelligence was all about modelling human thought processes. The idea behind the Turing Test was to assess whether an AI program could fool people into thinking they were communicating with a person rather than a machine.
JAmedia wrote:Fiction can be churned out that is just "good enough" for Mills and Boon and similar publishers, who turn out lots of stories on a theme. Not just publishers but self publishers who can generate a new novel in a few minutes and then spend a week tweaking it. One a month, every month.
Many years ago I was shown a Mills & Boon rejection letter. The editor acknowledged that the story was competently written by someone who had clearly researched the genre, but she said it lacked the “emotional punch” that they were looking for. I doubt that an AI fiction writer would be able to deliver on such a requirement.
fy{T}i - Font Field Guide
fy{T}i => ‘For your typographical information’
Numbers have, pretty much, always been included with fonts of type. When Gutenberg invented the art of typography, he included a set of numerals in his fonts.
Numbers are abstract: what we write, type or print are numerals. I can’t help wondering why the author of the article failed to observe that distinction.
prask wrote:Again thank you. It has installed.
That’s very good news! Thanks for the update.
prask wrote:The next thing will be getting the codes in. I still have the instructions you gave me from a few years back.
You’re more likely to have been given instructions by @ericlnz or @Albert Ross, but as long as you have a valid *.mfu file the process should prove fairly straightforward.
Ali wrote:In practice, you need only one breakpoint (for mobile phones). Tablets will be able to use the responsive desktop design. You can have as many as you want, of course, but as Pablo (the developer) advised me when I was building my site in January, they are rarely needed.
Thanks, Ali. Given the plethora of mobile phone screen sizes nowadays, that’s very useful to know.
Ali wrote:If you stick with WPX8, you have to build a mobile-friendly version of your site and then set parameters for the desktop site to recognise mobile devices and switch to the mobile version - it's two sites, effectively, that would both need maintaining.
Furthermore, you would only have two fixed layouts to choose between. With a modern product such as WWB, you can define multiple breakpoints to cater for a selection of different screen sizes — so the result is, technically, adaptive rather than responsive — which is not only more flexible but also makes site maintenance much less of a chore.
Joe wrote:Ali wrote:When I was using WebPlus, I used Forms To Go and found it brilliant.
https://formstogo.en.softonic.com/
I have now switched to WYSIWYG Web Builder 20, which has forms built in, but I am thinking of integrating Forms To Go again.
Hi Ali,
Why would you use' forms to go' when WYSIWYG Web Builder has php built into the forms, if you want to use it.
Joe
That’s a good question, Joe, if somewhat moot now.
Ali wrote:I was just looking at renewing the Forms To Go licence and their website seems to have been compromised, so I think maybe give it a miss!
Before attacking the disc with a cloth (especially if you’ve rarely used it and it looks OK) please try copying its contents to your PC and installing from there. I remember finding that installation directly from a brand new program disc was often very noisy, as if the installer was struggling to read it.
Ali wrote:As I said in another thread, I'd be inclined to take the opportunity to move on.
I’m inclined to agree!
For those wondering, a bhikkhu — pronounced BIK-koo — is an ordained male Buddhist monastic (i.e. a monk). A female Buddhist monastic (i.e. a nun) is a bhikkhuni — pronounced bik-KOO-nee.
Pesala — pronounced pay-SAH-lah — is the name that was given to him by his preceptor at his ordination.
It used to be the case that mobile browsers didn’t ‘play well’ with iframes (inline frames). I’m afraid I’ve no idea whether that still applies, but if you want to experiment you can look for the ‘Document Frame’ feature within WebPlus.
OzDesigner99 wrote:I'm not entirely sure what that option entails. Are you putting a link on your site that the customer goes to the Cognito Site to complete the form, or can you make the form appear on your web plus site and then be sent to your email?
Cognito Forms provides three options for embedding a form. If you choose one of those, visitors won’t have to navigate away from your site to fill it out.
https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/10/style-publish
Copy the contents of the installation disc to a new folder on your PC, find the ‘setup.exe’ program within that folder, and double-click on it to launch the installer.
If the copying operation fails, clean the disc with a clean, soft, dry lint-free cloth. Use radial strokes (i.e. not circular, but from the centre to the edge of the disc) so that you don’t risk introducing scratches along its tracks. If you think you need to use a solvent, use isopropyl alcohol rather than methylated spirits, since the latter will leave a residue.
Ali wrote:Bhikkhu Pesala - no idea. I stopped posting on the old Affinity forums until he disappeared from there, so I don't know what made him stop in the end. I don't know that he ever switched to Affinity as he was a big book producer, and probably found PagePlus X9 more feature-rich (Layout in Affinity Studio is still not on par, although it's getting there).
I’m pretty sure he posted something to the effect that Affinity Publisher lacked the features he needed, and that PagePlus would continue to serve his needs for the foreseeable future.
The fact that it would require a lot of work indicates that it’s been programmed inefficiently! With web browsers you can typically choose from a range of ready-made themes or ‘skins’, and the software simply uses colours from a different palette for the various elements of the user interface.
jeffers wrote:I find it impossible to use with the dark mode however much or little I try to tweak the UI greys etc plus the few other "lack of" and changes mentioned by others.
I’m disappointed that a light mode was never added to the version 1 or version 2 iPad apps, but I’m clinging to the hope that Affinity Studio for iPad will be equipped with a light mode (preferably on release).
I'm glad to hear that Marilyn is OK. I haven’t heard from her directly in a very, very long time!
Ali wrote:I am sorry if I caused this spat, it is the first time in many years that I have posted something in a Forum topic where it has caused a problem I have always strived to be polite and respectful of other members.
It's not your fault.
Thanks, Ali. I should have said that myself!
Pioneer wrote:Affinity Studio (which I and my friend still refer to as version 3)
Affinity Publisher 2 was the first version of APub to be available on iPad, but that didn’t prevent Serif from calling it version 2. I really don’t think we should get too hung up on version names, so long as users are aware that older versions can’t open documents saved from newer versions.
Given that Affinity Studio can open Affinity version 1.x and 2.x files and declares itself to be Affinity 3.x, it’s perfectly logical to regard it as a new version of the same product. The same thing happened with Serif’s ‘Plus’ range.
Beautifully expressed, @dcr! Thanks for taking the time to write it all down and share it with us here.
I only hope this hasn’t been an excuse for you to stop working on something else.
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