u/SteeeeveJune

Hi, I thought maybe you could help 😊

I'm looking for a free, easy-to-use program for my Windows PC that allows me to display and interact with HTML files or websites as a standalone overlay on my desktop.

It should display the content like a normal browser but without the address URL at the top and without the close and minimize buttons. Just the actual page itself, as large as I want it to be. Ideally, the size should be adjustable via drag and drop.

Allowing me to, for example, place my scrolling text webapp on my desktop. Then, I need to resize it so that it displays exactly two or more scrolling bars, without any window borders that would visually ruin it. Finally, I want to pin it to a fixed position on the desktop so that it's always showing these scrolling bars, without me having to constantly worry about the window being positioned correctly or the address URL and bookmarks bar being obscured.

Of course, it should be possible to set it up properly and edit it somehow, but there should also be the option to display it like I want it, perhaps even with transparency, but that's not absolutely necessary. Chroma key would be super cool. For example, I could select black, and everything black would be hidden/transparent. But that would just be a nice extra; I understand it's unlikely to exist.

Hi, I thought maybe you could help 😊

I'm looking for a free, easy-to-use program for my Windows PC that allows me to display and interact with HTML files or websites as a standalone overlay on my desktop.

It should display the content like a normal browser but without the address URL at the top and without the close and minimize buttons. Just the actual page itself, as large as I want it to be. Ideally, the size should be adjustable via drag and drop.

Allowing me to, for example, place my scrolling text webapp on my desktop. Then, I need to resize it so that it displays exactly two or more scrolling bars, without any window borders that would visually ruin it. Finally, I want to pin it to a fixed position on the desktop so that it's always showing these scrolling bars, without me having to constantly worry about the window being positioned correctly or the address URL and bookmarks bar being obscured.

Of course, it should be possible to set it up properly and edit it somehow, but there should also be the option to display it like I want it, perhaps even with transparency, but that's not absolutely necessary. Chroma key would be super cool. For example, I could select black, and everything black would be hidden/transparent. But that would just be a nice extra; I understand it's unlikely to exist.

Hey everyone, I have a small task—or rather, a small commission—for someone who is reasonably well-versed in font editing and knows how to modify specific glyphs within font files.

Here’s the situation: I have two different styles of a font (ttf file)—one solid with only uppercase letters and an outline version that includes lowercase letters. The problem is that I want a solid version containing both uppercase and lowercase letters. Ideally, this would involve modifying the lowercase letters from the outline version so that they are solid rather than just outlines. Naturally, they need to look consistent and harmonious—simply filling in the negative space won't cut it. The kerning must be preserved so the overall look remains balanced. I also have a JPG showing how the lowercase letters should ultimately look. Any kerning issues or minor adjustments arising from the fact that the lowercase letters are no longer outline glyphs might need to be addressed, though I don't expect that to be a major issue.

The uppercase version already includes all special characters, numbers, and—of course—uppercase letters, so the task is simply to take the lowercase letters from the outline version and edit them.

I hope that makes sense. I’m not a professional in this field, so I need some help, but I also want a relatively high-quality result since this is a long-term passion project. The final output needs to look seamless and cohesive—as if it were created that way from the start—so that no one would notice the lowercase glyphs were originally outlines. If you are willing to do that, I would pay you $35.

Hi, if anyone here is familiar with old Mac fonts and knows how to deal with them, or to recover or even to convert them to TTF or OTF, and is ready to take a moment for my old Zip, and to see if that is complete (i.e., whether you can restore the font from this zip file and convert it into a modern OTF or TTF file), or whether crucial stuff is missing here?

If someone here would be so friendly and could help me with that, I would be very happy about a PM. Then I would send you the ZIP file so that you're able to take a look there with suitable hardware and software. The files are apparently from the early 2000s. I would be so grateful if you could do this for me.

Hi, I thought maybe you could help 😊

I'm looking for a program for my Windows PC that allows me to display HTML files or websites as a standalone overlay on my desktop. It should display the content like a normal browser but without the address URL at the top, and without the close and minimize buttons. Just the actual page itself, as large as I want it to be.

Allowing me to, for example, place my scrolling text webapp on my desktop. Then, I need to resize it so that it displays exactly two or more scrolling bars, without any window borders that would visually ruin it. Finally, I want to pin it to a fixed position on the desktop so that it's always showing these scrolling bars, without me having to constantly worry about the window being positioned correctly or the address URL and bookmarks bar being obscured.

Of course, it should be possible to set it up properly and edit it somehow, but there should also be the option to display it like I want it, perhaps even with transparency, but that's not absolutely necessary.

[The following text was transcribed with Wispr Flow and translated with Google Translate.]

I've been testing the new ChatGPT Voice model in the ChatGPT app for a bit now. I should mention that Maybe I have the Go plan. But... I'm definitely blown away by how realistic the voice sounds. 😳

I'm speaking to her in German, and I've never heard such a good AI voice in German, even though she sometimes had a few slight accent slips. It could easily pass for a real person if I didn't know it was AI. It just sounds so natural, and the conversations feel natural too.

But I don't think it's perfect by default because at times I found it a bit awkward. She sometimes paused for quite a while, so she'd have a few seconds to think in the middle of sentences and use A LOT of "ums."

At times, I got that feeling of talking to a support employee on a free hotline who's just had a seven-hour shift and is only half-awake, operating at about 40% brainpower, while scrolling through Instagram. 😂

It gave me mild social awkwardness vibes. It's a bit hard to describe, but it did have a slight cringe factor at times—not THAT much, but I did think to myself, "Okay, is this bothering you? Should I leave you alone for a while? Do you need a break?" 💀

But I think you can configure it a bit more in the system instructions.

I've left it as is for now, but what are your first impressions of the new voice model?

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone here has experience with really old Mac font formats.

First of all: I'm not a font expert by any means. I'm just someone trying to preserve a small piece of design history, so please excuse me if I misuse any terminology.

I've been searching for a particular early-2000s font for quite a while. Recently I managed to contact one of the original designers, who surprisingly still had a copy and was kind enough to send it to me.

Unfortunately, I can't actually use it.

The ZIP contains something like this (the filenames below are placeholders because I'd rather not reveal the actual font name yet):

\[FontName\]/

\[FontName\]Hig (0 bytes)

\[FontName\]Out (0 bytes)

\[FontName\]-High.bmap (0 bytes)

\[FontName\]-Outline.bmap (0 bytes)

\_\_MACOSX/\[FontName\]/

.\_\[FontName\]Hig

.\_\[FontName\]Out

.\_\[FontName\]-High.bmap

.\_\[FontName\]-Outline.bmap

The files inside the "\_\_MACOSX" folder are not empty (around 28 KB / 39 KB), while every file in the actual font folder is 0 bytes.

Looking at the files in a hex editor, the ".\_" files appear to be AppleDouble files containing what looks like a Resource Fork.

FontForge refuses to open either "\[FontName\]Hig" or "\[FontName\]Out" ("unknown format"), which makes sense since they're empty.

The original designer told me that she used to simply drop the font folder into the font manager on both Mac and PC, so I don't think she intentionally sent incomplete files. My guess is that these files came from an old Mac archive and only the Resource Fork survived while the Data Fork was lost during copying or archiving.

So my questions are:

\- Is there any way to reconstruct a usable font from AppleDouble/Resource Fork data alone?

\- Does anyone recognize filenames like "\[FontName\]Hig", "\[FontName\]Out" or ".bmap"? Could they belong to Fontographer, FontLab, Suitcase, or another classic Mac font workflow?

\- Are there any free tools that can extract or rebuild old Mac Type 1 fonts from this kind of data as an OTF or TTF file?

\- Or am I simply missing another file that should have accompanied these?

I've been researching this font for a long time and this is getting super important for me, so I'd really love to exhaust every possible option before asking the original designer to search through old backups again. 😅

Any ideas, old tools, or even educated guesses would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks a lot!

EDIT: If anyone knows exactly what to do and ideally even has the right software and hardware ready to generate an OTF or TTF file for me, I would be very interested in your help. In this case, you can also contact me via pm.

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone here has experience with really old Mac font formats.

First of all: I'm not a font expert by any means. I'm just someone trying to preserve a small piece of design history, so please excuse me if I misuse any terminology.

I've been searching for a particular early-2000s font for quite a while. Recently I managed to contact one of the original designers, who surprisingly still had a copy and was kind enough to send it to me.

Unfortunately, I can't actually use it.

The ZIP contains something like this (the filenames below are placeholders because I'd rather not reveal the actual font name yet):

[FontName]/

[FontName]Hig (0 bytes)

[FontName]Out (0 bytes)

[FontName]-High.bmap (0 bytes)

[FontName]-Outline.bmap (0 bytes)

__MACOSX/[FontName]/

._[FontName]Hig

._[FontName]Out

._[FontName]-High.bmap

._[FontName]-Outline.bmap

The files inside the "__MACOSX" folder are not empty (around 28 KB / 39 KB), while every file in the actual font folder is 0 bytes.

Looking at the files in a hex editor, the "._" files appear to be AppleDouble files containing what looks like a Resource Fork.

FontForge refuses to open either "[FontName]Hig" or "[FontName]Out" ("unknown format"), which makes sense since they're empty.

The original designer told me that she used to simply drop the font folder into the font manager on both Mac and PC, so I don't think she intentionally sent incomplete files. My guess is that these files came from an old Mac archive and only the Resource Fork survived while the Data Fork was lost during copying or archiving.

So my questions are:

- Is there any way to reconstruct a usable font from AppleDouble/Resource Fork data alone?

- Does anyone recognize filenames like "[FontName]Hig", "[FontName]Out" or ".bmap"? Could they belong to Fontographer, FontLab, Suitcase, or another classic Mac font workflow?

- Are there any free tools that can extract or rebuild old Mac Type 1 fonts from this kind of data as an OTF or TTF file?

- Or am I simply missing another file that should have accompanied these?

I've been researching this font for a long time and this is getting super important for me, so I'd really love to exhaust every possible option before asking the original designer to search through old backups again. 😅

Any ideas, old tools, or even educated guesses would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks a lot!

EDIT: If anyone knows exactly what to do and ideally even has the right software and hardware ready to generate an OTF or TTF file for me, I would be very interested in your help. In this case, you can also contact me via pm.

Hey everyone, I've seen a few videos about the next Android version, the upcoming Android 17, and I'm really impressed by Gemini Intelligence and some of the other features, which are really cool

I'm wondering if there's any information yet about which of these features, or if the OnePlus 13 will get all of them with Android 17, and maybe even when approximately? I would really like to have it ASAP.