The Boutons have posted the 2020 Christmas music album

Ho Ho Ho!

It's time for "Christmas with The Boutons", album 8; critically acclaimed by everyone who criticize my work.

We're moving on and up, away from the physical disk, and in the Spirit of Christmas, we're offering Spiritual delivery.

I'm kidding; we have Dropbox all set up to allow downloads of the entire album in a zip archive, or individual songs. And a printable music CD jewel case cover in case you want to download the files to your phone or your computer, or a thumb drive, and then burn a disc for your car, if your car is more than 18 years old.

Again, I'm jesting. We owned a Town and Country once that was so old, it came with a Gramophone.

Handy link to Christmas with he Boutons, volume 8.


That's it!

Here's a screen snag of your destination. Dropbox has changed their UI for guests a little, so what you want to do is click the down arrow button, which reveals a flyout box to reveal the Download button, as shown in Figure 1, I guess.

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Then choose a destination for your file, Cleveland is nice this time of year, from the familiar Save To box.

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If you're reading this right now, you have great cause to celebrate this year. A lot of us all over the world can't read this, and you know why.

Let us remember them as we remember the spirit of Christmas, The Admin and the Floating Mod both wish you a Joyous Holiday, and a healthy and Happy 2021, because in comparison, 2020 sucked.

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With Love,

B & G

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Have a great Chritmas OG and a healthy(ier) New Year.

Thank you Gare.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and Barbara!!!

Remember not to sing along or face anyone if carolling. People might start to enjoy themselves. :rolleyes:

Happy Festivities to All!

Acorn

Thanks Gare and Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones!

And to you and friends and family, Gary.

I'm still counting my blessing left over from Thanksgiving. SO much could have gone sideways with the valve replacement. I'm taking flights of stairs now so I can sleep in a real bed when Barbara lets me :), and next week the sugerons say I'm fit to drive a car. I'm off to dust it now...

A VERY Merry Christmas, Happy holidays, and here's to 2021.

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Glad to hear you are doing so well!!!

And a Merry Christmas to you & Barbara, Gary. <:)

I remember my first contact with TG. You were the first moderator to meet him this way and wisely.
Thank you for your efforts back then and the unforgettable video tutorials.

Marry Christmas, a happy new year and HEALTH for You and Barbara wish from Bavaria/Germany

Ernie

Bless you all.

If anyone would like to post a hand-made card, do it here, by all means.

Like when we collaborated on a tree design years ago.



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This Year I send to my clients, friends and familly a X-mas card with a 2021 calandar for desktop.

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Clever! Inventive! Original!

THANK YOU for sharing, Ernie.

Without people like you, TalkGraphics would be more dead than it already is!

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16 days 'til...


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Thank You Gary.

A forum lives from it's members and we have the luck to have a bunch of expierence users like you and all the other older guys (me included by the older one).
And isn't it fun to share his knowledge to the youngsters/beginners? We can't took it with us of the end.

Ernie

There's an old Scottish saying, "There are no pockets in shrouds".

An to be brutally honest, I think I have more years behind me than in front of me.

So why not share?

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In XAR file format, attached, is my person, hand-made collection of literary, typographic dividers. Several years ago, I found a bitmap, that I'm sure was 5 dpi, and lovingly hand-traced the art back to usability.

Someone will either wipe it off my hard drive someday, or I'll use it again and again and do not mind in te least if someone else is using it. Call it a gift!


I know it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas!

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An excellent and useful gift, Gary. Very many thanks and all good wishes to you and Barbara

Yeah Gary,
nice work on this. I had done a similar job in the beginning 1990ies. I got an old issue (maybe from the begining of the 19th century) with some nice ribbon frames.
In this early days of DTP and Vector Graphics I use an Apple Classic and Freehand. My mistake was I saved it as Freehand-files and so they were stored on a CD and I thought „lost for ever”.

After Your post with the dividers I remember my stored Freehand-files. But how to convert it to .xar?

It tooks me some time to get the right way: the cheap and easy way is Scribus! Scribus on v. 1.5 can open .fh_xx files.
And here they are. Feel free to use it for what you need it. Privat or commercial.

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And yes. happy x-mas!
Ernie

P.S.: I'm old. I forgot to show an other giveaway for x-mas I made with Xara. I bought some boxes of Toffifee and do my special cover for it.
Ex.:

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The design I adopt to other opportunities.

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