Welcome to the new CorelDRAW forum on i/us

[chris-dickman]

I hope it proves to be a valuable resource for your work with Draw.

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[chris-dickman]

I'm with you on missing the threaded messages format, many users have requested this, so if the forums developer makes this available, I'll be the first to use.

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[jrw3]

Is there somewhere that I can read an explanation for the new format? My intitial impression is a major step backward. Hope you are well, Chris. Just saw Space Cowboys. Does that relate here?

Bob Wright [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[chris-dickman]

Yes, I'll be adding one.

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[Mike Bailey]

I agree with Gary! Although it takes a bit of navigating to get around, I miss the ability to see the message I am replying to as I do so, sometimes I forget what I read and have to go back and read it again and again and.......oh well, I have a work around.

Chris is there going to be a freelancing discussion or are ya going to drop it?

I like the profile thing, so far it seems like most people are afraid to tell much about oneself, I think it makes for a better conversation to know a little bit about who you are writing to, I hope I can get to know a little bit more about the folks that frequently visit, it makes it a lot more fun.

All in all it looks great.

Nice going man!

[Peter Clifton]

Chris

Brilliant, the speed [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Gary,

Please explain the Harry reference, I didn't realise the current UK mania for J.K. Rowling's creation had crossed the Pond.

I still think Terry Pratchett is better.

Peter

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I, for one, am a Harry Potter fan, although I do (theoretically) purchase the books for my 50-year-old sister. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] Unfortunately, the cousin with whom she's living thinks HP is the work of the devil, so my sister has to hide the contraband. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]

So who's Terry Pratchett and why is s/he better?

BTW, re the forum, I do miss the post preview and the ability to reply to a specific message in a thread, but the speed is wonderful.

...Well, the speed was wonderful until I tried to post this reply. Perhaps the forum has just become the "in" place to be on a Friday afternoon.

And, Mike, you can see the previous posts if you scroll to the bottom of this window, below the Post Now button.

As long as I'm on the forum subject, how did I come to be in the CorelDraw forum? Thought it was Xara. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif[/img] (Suspect I may have wound up here by clicking a message in the "new posts since..." list.)

...And while I was waiting for the forum database to become available (yet again) so I could complete this post, I checked out the UBB Codes help. Very nice, but there's a typo in the Ordered Lists example that renders the example incorrect. (According to the text, TYPE=A should product a list ordered from A to Z rather than a numbered list as in the example.) Oh dear, perhaps I should stop poking about. Who knows what lurks beneath the cover of the new forum? :-)

Now, I will try to post this message for the fifth or sixth time...Ah, success!

[chris-dickman]

Bob:

Not sure what you mean by an "explanation". What kind of info are you looking for? Also, not quite clear on the Space Cowboys reference.

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[chris-dickman]

Steve:

Did you hear the one about...

>(Presumably even you have a sense of humor.)

The new forums software is from InfoPop, located in the Good Ol' US of A, so my guess is rather than being "continental affectations" on my part (difficult in any case, my being Canadian) these can more likely be laid at the door of local lads who are better at coding than spelling.

>In any case, I'm curious whether oddities like spelling apologize "apologise" (on the "temporarily unavailable" screen) and "changes must be made within 1 hours" are Continental affectations that we're going to have to endure, or plain old typos?

Well put, sir.

>Again, congratulations. The old appearance suddenly seems pre-historic, and that's half the battle.

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[This message was edited by Chris Dickman -- i/us on August 08, 2000 at 01:33 AM.]

[chris-dickman]

Let's leave HP out of it, shall we? His presence is already far too widespread.

Chris

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