The WROCC Vol 38 Issue 8 Out Now

The November 2020 issue of The WROCC – the newsletter of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club – is on its way out to members across the UK and beyond this week.

Issue 8 Volume 38 takes a look back at the virtual London Show, with an in-depth report of the twelve presentations. We investigate the work done to get RISC OS 5.28 running on a Raspberry Pi 4, and take a look at the new Raspberry Pi 400 revealed earlier in the month. There’s even space to look back at Mike Cook’s virtual visit to Wakefield in October, when he spoke about his quest to acquire a laser cutter for his projects and showed us some of the things that he’d made with it.

See https://www.wrocc.org.uk/newsletter for more details of recent issues, and to download samples of older issues.

Able to trace its roots directly back to the first Wakefield Club newsletter in April 1983, these days The WROCC is produced in an A5 booklet layout and copies are delivered free to WROCC members in PDF format. Membership of the Club costs £15 per year with a reduced rate of £7.50 for the first year… and despite our name, there are no geographical restrictions.

The Wakefield Back Catalogue Issue 10

Relaunched following the completion of Volume 37 of The WROCC in April 2020, the tenth edition of The Wakefield Back Catalogue contains PDF copies of the Club’s monthly newsletters going from The WROCC and Awake right back to the very first “hints & tips” sheet handed out at the April 1983 meeting.

Originally intended for release at the 2020 Wakefield Show, the new compilation contains around 408 issues and is available as a download in these more ‘virtual’ times. It costs £7.50 for non-members, whilst members can buy it for the discounted price of £5.00. See https://www.wrocc.org.uk/newsletter for more details.

We investigate the work done to get RISC OS 5.28 running on a Raspberry Pi 4

I am very grateful to Rob Sprowson, Jeffrey Lee and Adrian Lees for correcting my more egergious errors in this article and for adding their insight into things RISC OS.

I seek some advice, please?

How can I edit the PDF order forms so that I can send them back electronically?

How can I edit the PDF order forms so that I can send them back electronically?

A very good question…

My personal suggestion, which might not match the “official” line but should still work fine, would be to put the information requested in the form into the body of an email and send it in to the info address given on the form. Since the form isn’t even asking for a signature, I can’t see any reason why it needs to be used.

As per Steve’s comment. You can send the information required as text in an email.

I know some people have saved the PDF as a Draw file and then filled in the bits required that way.

I thought I was missing something on RISC OS.

I used to have Windows software to edit PDFs for work. (twenty years ago)

I used to have Windows software to edit PDFs for work. (twenty years ago)

Which wasn’t free and, for the non-Adobe editors, would tend to have a few quirks.

Which wasn’t free

Indeed.

But as the registered business user, the licence allowed me to have a copy at home.