I have looked everywhere – except possibly in the right place! – for an explanation of the use of the options in the Clone toolbar. Shape and Size are self-explanatory, but I could use some advice on the effect of the values set for Hardness, Step, Density, Thickness, Rotation and Opacity as well as the choice of Blend Mode.
Oops! Sorry Hunter, it's Corel PaintShop Pro X.
PS But all is not lost. There is a surprisingly clear explanation on the Mozilla site of how to set it up. Will have a go at that.
Thanks for your reply, Hunter. I am reproducing it here because although I have had email notification, it doesn't appear in the sequence of Qs & As in the forum:
"NNTP stands for Network News Transport Protocol (just like FTP = File Transfer Protocol and SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and POP = Post Office Protocol). NNTP is the "old school" type of "forum"; primarily use on UseNet newsgroups, but many software companies maintain their own NNTP servers for user-to-user support.These news servers contain many different newsgroups covering probably most any topic you could think of (on UseNet) and the software companies that maintain their own, it can depend on the topics, but usually are setup in such a way that there are different newsgroups for each version of the various software products they carry.As for posting to the newsgroups, you just need to setup your newsreader to connect to one of the news servers in the world, then have it populate a list of what newsgroups there are on that server. The method of posting will probably vary depending on the application you're using to connect to said server, but they're basically like email - for example in Outlook Express (it's what I use) when I have a NG selected, in my menu bar there are buttons for "new post", "reply group", and "reply" - New Post would create a new message and Reply Group is what you'd use to reply to a message on the newsgroup (don't use "reply" as that will go via email to only that person and most people using NNTP newsgroups never post their real email address so as to reduce spam because their real addresses could be harvested there by spammers)."
(GeoffO's questioning resumes here)
I have set up a CorelNews account in Thunderbird and a whole lot of 'previous correspondence' has come flooding in. So I tried using the address from which one of the messages appeared to have been sent (cnews.corel.com), but Thunderbird gave me an error message saying that the address was not in the correct format, ie it didn't have an @ in it.
So the missing link seems to be in my lack of comprehension on setting up a "newsreader to connect to one of the news servers in the world". It would really help if you could give me a child's guide to making this connection.
OK, I am now converting from Thunderbird to Outlook Express (on the principle that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!).
First stumbling block, in OE Help, seems to put us in a chicken and egg situation:
But you can't make contact until you know your user name and password, and you can't find out this information until you have made contact.
So, if you are prepared to continue with this time-consuming mature student ... ?
Thanks Hunter, that's fixed it. I was trying every username and password I could think of. The thing finally worked when I left both panels blank. Message has gone off; now await results.