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Urgent! Can someone look at this Forward Arts Foundation page and tell me...
.. if my bio look ok, and they can see it all, please?
I can't see the whole shape as my settings are too large, i'd like to know if it fits on a normal page view. It looks too big to me, even making the page smaller.
It looks as though it's on two pages Liz. I looked at the print preview and it said two pages. You also have to scroll down and it's not complete on one page. Hope this helps.
Thanks, casey, that's what I was worried about - I have a screen the size of a planet and I can always see everything, but this is supposed to be for everyone on every type of computer.
The size of the font is immaterial - it was a Word doc (the correct size font) which I changed into a PDF so I could make it into a jpeg.
Then I opened it in Photoshop and removed the background - so the background colour of the page would show through and make it fit in better.
But then it became a png file - I sent it to them like that, cropped so the bird was only in frame, otherwise the information below it on the page would have been much further away from the bio.
That cropping of the image makes the font in effect bigger than it was. They need to choose a smaller file size for the png file as they post it on the page, to make the font appear smaller again.
That's what I'm asking them to do... it's all so complicated!
I think any resizing by me would also remove quality - when you post stuff on a website, it's quite easy to make the posting smaller, you just choose a percentage and if that's not right choose again.
Here's hoping! I don't want to appear difficult - wish I'd just done something normal like the other 4 now!
My laptop has a 13" screen and it doesn't quite fit the whole text shape onscreen. I can see enough of it at once to understand what it is (it's a bird, right?), so I don't think it's a big problem.
If it's any help, my screen is 800 pixels tall, so if you were going to change it, you'd probably want to resize the image to 500 pixels tall or smaller. Shrinking it shouldn't result in any detectable loss of quality, particularly not if you do it in Photoshop.
Thanks, Dan. I'm hoping they ca cope, but if not, I'll send a smaller file. I don't want to send them ANOTHER mail, in case they decide never to have anything to do with me again! It's a massive compliment, being asked for a poem. And for something else, yet to be revealed.
I'm afraid it's your perception then, HA, as the text is a jpeg, so cannot move, or displace. If you can't see the bird, you won't be able to see shape poems.
so it is meant to be like this? She tells young people. all the fun facts she knows about such creatures as the see-through frog and moth that drinks tears I know see it is a jpg when looking at the pages source code.
I can almost get the whole bird on screen at once, but I'm on a rectangular laptop one, rather than a square monitor one, so maybe it fits better there? HA, the poem is the bird - bring up the whole poem, step back and squint a bit. See? Beak, tail, legs...
The page I'm looking at has a bird. I suppose it's not a poem, though - it's an introduction to Liz Brownlee. You're right. But it looks like a poem-shaped bird, or bird-shaped poem, only without the poetry. I think I'll go away and play with something sharp...
OH Lizy, you could not even get out of your drainpipe jeans the other night, don't be shy, spend a few euros and put the aircon on the cold will make them shrink.
Liz, if it is any help I am using an iPad and can see down as far as Fun. Facts on a single page but enough to see it is a shape and a bird at that. Scrub that. I had the screen in landscape mode. No probs portrait!
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I've asked them to post it smaller.
I start to see the shape as I scroll down...
The head's a little squashed though. Would adding 'Poet' above your name work?
Then I opened it in Photoshop and removed the background - so the background colour of the page would show through and make it fit in better.
But then it became a png file - I sent it to them like that, cropped so the bird was only in frame, otherwise the information below it on the page would have been much further away from the bio.
That cropping of the image makes the font in effect bigger than it was. They need to choose a smaller file size for the png file as they post it on the page, to make the font appear smaller again.
That's what I'm asking them to do... it's all so complicated!
It's not that complicated. If they're struggling, can you resize the png and resend?
Here's hoping! I don't want to appear difficult - wish I'd just done something normal like the other 4 now!
She tells young people.
all the
fun facts
she knows
about such
creatures as the see-through frog
and moth that drinks tears
I know see it is a jpg when looking at the pages source code.
HA, the poem is the bird - bring up the whole poem, step back and squint a bit. See? Beak, tail, legs...
The bird is my biography.
I think I'll go away and play with something sharp...
Do read the poem. It's on a link. I forgot to ask people.
Is it a plane?
No, it's Super-Liz!!
Fun. Facts
on a single page but enough to see it is a shape and a bird at that.
Scrub that. I had the screen in landscape mode. No probs portrait!
*is not sure if this is a useful comment*
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32986089/bio Liz Brownlee bird shape copy 2.jpg
*wonders if she should contact Forward Arts and tell them certain people cannot read word shapes*
It's like one of those colour blind tests.
Yes, I see it loud and clear.
This is why I wanted it posted smaller.
As we all know, small is best.