Recent content by SlaveToTheMan

I thought I'd heard recently, they're utilizing Real People to train AI what is & isn't humor. highly subjective, of course, but there's very likely no other way to train the models. I'd say don't bother, leave something for us meat sleeves to be useful doing.

Waits for "Airplane" reference

Who knew? All of these decades later & it was just a "suggestion" and not a "standard."

Non-Paywall article courtesy of The Guardian.

What's a "schedule?" :unsure:

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Odd, I'm trying as well (I converted all fonts to Outlines first in Pitstop) but you're right - it insists on importing the page(s) as Layout files instead of raster. Even when starting the Pixel workspace. There are a few standalone Affinity forums I'll go poking around. (Their official forum...

All of these "Collaborative Web Based Design" tools seem to be based on the same underlying engine to render PDFs at the final stage. And they all suffer from creating needlessly complex & garbage files. Even PiStop struggles with most of them, when trying to "fix" the usual roadblocks. Maybe AI...

I'd say we're all "certifiable" for being in this business so long now...

Ahhhhh, good idea! If it becomes a lot of pages (several hundred) I could see that being a chore - but great solution. 👍

Assuming you'll have PDFs as the final files, I would open the 1st book as a "reference" in Acrobat, then the 2nd file and use View->Compare Files (Check "Compare Text Only" if applicable). It's a pretty easy way to find differences in PDFs, non-destructively. It will highlight any changes found...

Don't forget to terminate your SCSI chains...

We're a dying breed. Literally. 😕

Also installed at work, I'd purchased one of the previous standalone versions when they were still "Serif" because it seemed like a viable alternative to Adobe & not being a designer by any stretch, I just wanted to see how files produced would travel through our environment. That being said...

I've been told I still behave like a 9 year old - maybe I'll incorporate this into my vocab & just run with it!