Forum / Justified lay-out capability

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  Dolemite

  May 11, 03:56am

  Is this ever going to return?

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  James Claffey

  May 11, 08:43pm

  yeah! why it no work?

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  Dolemite

  May 11, 09:39pm

  It used to. Also used to be able to use different fonts...

• 
  Dolemite

  May 12, 09:01pm

  And you know, I've got a

  CHEAP ELECTRIC TYPEWRITER

  that can print in Justified format...

• 
  mxi wodd

  Jul 02, 12:00am

  Is it a money thing?

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  Letitia Coyne

  Jul 02, 02:20am

  Knowing that this may well be stupid and will be poorly received anyway -- I hold my breath and try -- Is it possible, with poems that need a specific layout not available here, to use an image?

  Instead of placing text directly onto the page, just capture and paste the image, instead.

  Cheers.

  As you were.

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  mxi wodd

  Jul 02, 02:28am

  I THINK (..!..) I know what you are asking.

  Perhaps try saving as PDF and copy/pasting that?

  Perhaps try saving text as "picture" and copy/pasting that...

  Back in the golden glory days we used to be able to post in Full Justified, Centered, RIGHT Justified...

  and in a full variety of common fonts.

  But then the site was "Fixed/Upgraded" and we lost all that.

  With never an explanation why.

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  Sally Houtman

  Jul 02, 02:46am

  It makes no sense that we can post in Cuneiform, but to center a piece on the page...

  click-click-click-click
  click-click-click-click

  oops I lost count.

  click-click-click......................

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  mxi wodd

  Jul 02, 02:51am

  ...and we used to be able to "tab-over" a piece in Word and then copy/paste here and have it be "where we want it," to coin a phraszk.

  Now (since I like my pieces centered under title as if in a 'real mag,' I have to "clickclickclick" each line over to get the lay-out I like.

  Which ain't no real heavy-liftin' compared to real-world weights, but still...

• 
  mxi wodd

  Jul 02, 03:01am

  Even used to be able to use UNCOMMON fonts such as OLDNEWSpaperTYPE, really cool font from the old London "Grub Street" tabloids.

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  Letitia Coyne

  Jul 02, 03:11am

  Yes. I meant save as an image.

  For instance. Format your poem in a word doc so it looks exactly as you would have it. You might have to fiddle with the size percentage to get it to convert well. Open doc on your screen.

  [Print screen/SysRq]

  Open Paint. Paste. Crop. Save. Insert image into fictionaut page.

  I realize this was unnecessary before, but if it is the only way to do it now, it might be worth a try.

  Lxx

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  mxi wodd

  Jul 02, 03:16am

  Give it a shot!

  ;-)

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  Letitia Coyne

  Jul 02, 03:35am

  It would be wise to remove the spell-check from the word doc. I didn't see it... O.o

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  mxi wodd

  Jul 02, 04:32am

  Your "Test" seemed rather successful.

  What format did you use?

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  Letitia Coyne

  Jul 02, 05:01am

  To do what I did there - and there may be other better ways to do it for the more tech savvy than me - you should be able to use any document format at all. As long as the whole poem is visible at one time on the screen. Otherwise it has to be made smaller to fit, or to be done in two separate screenshots.

  I used word because I had a word doc open. Because I simply saved a screenshot as a jpeg, it wouldn't have mattered what it was, as long as the finished poem looked exactly as I want it. There is no editing the image file once it is done. The original text file has to be edited and a new image made if it requires changes.

  Because I can't write html and I don't know how to insert images any other way, I inserted the cropped Paint jpeg into a Wordpress blog text box, copied the html from there, opened the fictionaut text box and pasted the html directly into the text box.

  Once you hit 'preview' the html is automatically changed into an image here at fictionaut.

  Is that what you mean?

  Lxx

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  Letitia Coyne

  Jul 02, 05:40am

  Aha. It works just as well to insert the image into word doc, copy and paste directly into the fictionaut text box.

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  Letitia Coyne

  Jul 02, 05:54am

  No, it doesn't. It comes up in the edit, but does not publish.

• 
  mxi wodd

  Jul 02, 06:00am

  Necessity's a mother...

  (I'll study this later... 1 a.m. here...)

• Frankie Saxx

  Jul 05, 07:42pm

  I use Gimp for all my cutting and cropping and screenshot taking needs.

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