• Registered: 2022-01-21
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Topic: Localizable sentences and an art installation

Some readers may remember Chapter 28 from my first novel.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_028.pdf

Constructing such a structure could be a fairly big job, which i cannot do myself, so it would cost a lot of money.

However, I have thought of a way to have an art installation that would have much the same concept content for under £5.

I have found that Viking Virtual Print House can print PDF documents for me in a variety of sizes.

So I am thinking that if I have the basic structure as a piece of A3 landscape orientation printed card, then I can have pieces of A5 portrait orientation card to place upon it.

The A3 card having a vertical pale about 25 millimetres wide down the middle to represent the language barrier.

Then at each side a blank A5 area marked out with a border.

Then lines diagonally from upper right corner of the leftside A5 panel to the lower left corner of the rightside A5 panel, and from the lower right corner of leftside A5 panel to the upper left corner of the rightside A5 panel.

Then a large filled disc centred on where those diagonals cross and with diameter greater than the width of the language barrier, obscuring the lines that are under the disc.

Then at least two A5 cards, each having at the leftside a list of sentences in a language and at the right lists of the correponding glyphs and code numbers of the sentences.

So if the A3 card is placed on a table such that a viewer or viewers can walk round it, then two of the A5 cards can be placed upon it. Then either or both of the A5 cards can be changed for an A5 card in a different language.

I am hoping to be able to produce designs for those cards using Affinity Designer.

Please note that the two A5 cards will together cover half of the area of the A3 card.

William

  • Registered: 2022-02-03
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Re: Localizable sentences and an art installation

Hi William
I think you would be better off using Affinity Publisher or PagePlus for this, it's much more user friendly and either would output to PDF in any size you wanted. If you don't have either or need any particular help or advice I can always be contacted at millrind (at) btinternet.com
John Kay

  • Registered: 2022-01-21
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Re: Localizable sentences and an art installation

Thank you for your reply.

I had forgotten about this, so as I have recently installed the three Affinity programs, version 1 of each, on a new computer, it would be a good project for me to start to use the software on the new computer. Thank you for reminding me.

Yes, I think that the project could be done using Affinity Publisher.

I don't know about the new version 2 programs, but in version 1, for some reason unknown to me, that whereas Affinity Publisher allows setting of the author field in the PDF document, Affinity Designer does not. So if one is producing a PDF document that needs one or more of the facilities that are in Affinity Designer yet are not in Affinity Publisher, and one wants to add one's name in the author field of the PDF document, one needs to use the two programs.

William

  • Registered: 2022-02-03
  • Posts: 61

Re: Localizable sentences and an art installation

In Publisher 2 I think you can insert the Author information by using the Fields Panel Windows/References/Fields and you can insert this Field wherever you want to.
John