On Thursday 18 June 2009 06:09:09 pm Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 11:05 -0400, Jay Smith wrote: > > I know nothing of the workflow that results in the current HTML > > manual format. It would seem to me that producing one or more > > other formats should come out of that same workflow. > > Indeed. The manual is written in Docbook/XML and you can get a > variety of output formats from that source. If you checkout the > gimp-help-2 repository from git.gnome.org (I suggest to do a > shallow clone due to the immense size of the project), then you > will get the Docbook/XML sources, the images and a build system > that spits out HTML and optionally PDF or ODF. > > Here's what I did to get a PDF version of the english user > manual: > > git clone --depth=0 git://git.gnome.org/gimp-help-2 > cd gimp-help-2 > ./autogen.sh > LINGUAS=en make > LINGUAS=en make pdf-local > > And to check the result: > > pdfinfo pdf/en/gimp.pdf > > Title: GNU Image Manipulation Program > Subject: > Keywords: > Author: > Creator: DBLaTeX-0.2.10-1 > Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.3 > CreationDate: Thu Jun 18 23:57:05 2009 > ModDate: Thu Jun 18 23:57:05 2009 > Tagged: no > Pages: 849 > Encrypted: no > Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) > File size: 39395416 bytes > Optimized: no > PDF version: 1.4 > > > Sven > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
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