Re: [Gimp-user] Tutorial Pointers Page in PDF format (former : Re. Good tutorial in PDF format)
Hi Jon, Thanks for your response. At 11:18 PM 2002/6/7 -0500, Jon Winters wrote: I've never seen Gimp tutorials in PDF format. You might want to poke around freshmeat.net or sourceforge to find a PDF printing filter. You could load an HTML tutorial in your browser and print to PDF and then do what you please as long as you don't violate the copyright of the web author. Why the PDF format?? Gimp user's manuals has PDF version. You are right, most manuals in HTML Framed / Ordinary version. PDF version is much smaller in file size than HTML version. But this is not my point looking for a PDF version of the tutorial Tutorial Pointers Page in following website http://empyrean.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/~nem/gimp/tuts/ They are web-pages. Then I have to save all of them page by page. It shall take a lengthy time to complete not including the time to print them to a .pdf file. Anyway I will to take a browse on Internet. Thanks Stephen ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tutorial Pointers Page in PDF format (former : Re. Good tutorial in PDF format)
Hi Malcolm, Thanks for your response. Gimp user's manual, second edition, has PDF version of 9.49MB in file size. Grokking the Gimp in HTML, the tarball is 26.8 MB. I have both of them downloaded. But this is not my point looking for a PDF version of the tutorial Tutorial Pointers Page in following website http://empyrean.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/~nem/gimp/tuts/ They are web-pages. Then I have to save all of them page by page. It shall take me a lengthy time to complete not including the time to print them to a .pdf file. Anyway I will to take a browse on Internet. Thanks Stephen Liu At 10:41 AM 2002/6/8 +1000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 08:26:43AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Thanks for your advice. I found following website http://empyrean.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/~nem/gimp/tuts/ from www.gimp.org under the link referred as Gimp Tutorial Pointers Page. The documents there are quite interesting, but I expect to find those tutorials in PDF format. I think you're basically out of luck. A lot of tutorials exist (as you already see) in HTML format. If you would prefer something pre-printed, try the print version of Grokking the Gimp. The original Gimp manual was available in PDF, if I recall correctly, but is was based on 1.0.x and is very dated now. Grokking the Gimp has really surpassed it as the useful reference (well, along with Sven's Pocket Reference, of course). Malcolm ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: Tutorial Pointers Page in PDF format (former : Re. Good tutorial in PDF format)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2002-06-08 at 1726.04 +0800): They are web-pages. Then I have to save all of them page by page. It shall take me a lengthy time to complete not including the time to print them to a .pdf file. There are tools to get web pages automatically, like wget. For conversion too, like html2pdf or html2ps + ghostscript or htmldoc or print from the browser to a pdf file (virtual printer trick). Just search for the tools first, then let the computer work for you. Also remember that the format of the web is HTML, not PDF, so it is normal to find few things in PDF and a lot in HTML. OTOH, I just did a quick test, hit print in NS, selected file, then converted the ps to pdf. Not completly automatic, but not too long. For mass conversion, I would print everything to ps, then run a script to convert all the ps in the directory to pdf. And I would get the files with the proper names, not some weird names, so I doubt it is really a waste of time. GSR ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tutorial Pointers Page in PDF format (former : Re. Good tutorial in PDF format)
Hi Massimiliano, Thanks for your advice. The wget tool sounds similar to weblicator in Windows, downloading the complete homepage including all links for offline browsing. Before start please advise : 1) How to check whether the wget tool has been installed ? 2) Where shall the complete homepage be stored, in which folder/directory ? 3) Would it be possible to print the complete homepage download including links in one ' click ' similar to printing a file rather then to print page by page Thanks in advance. Stephen Liu At 01:17 PM 2002/6/8 +0200, you wrote: On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:26:04PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: http://empyrean.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/~nem/gimp/tuts/ They are web-pages. Then I have to save all of them page by page. It shall take me a lengthy time to complete not including the time to print them to a .pdf file. If the wget tool is available on your machine, just issue: wget --mirror --no-parent http://empyrean.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/~nem/gimp/tuts/ The tutorials directory will be mirrored onto your hard disk without further action and you will be able to browse it locally. If wget is not available, you can download it for Windows at ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/wget/windows or (better) as part of the cygwin distribution. It is free software like GIMP. Hope this helps. Massimiliano ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tutorial Pointers Page in PDF format (former : Re.Good tutorial in PDF format)
lör 2002-06-08 klockan 18.17 skrev Stephen Liu: Hi Massimiliano, Thanks for your advice. The wget tool sounds similar to weblicator in Windows, downloading the complete homepage including all links for offline browsing. Before start please advise : 1) How to check whether the wget tool has been installed ? Asuming you use rpm then, rpm -qa | grep wget in a terminal should do the trick. If you get a line saying something like wget-1.23-i386 then it's installed. 2) Where shall the complete homepage be stored, in which folder/directory ? Wherever you preffer, a good advice is ~/downloads/name-of-homepage. Just make a directory in your homecatalogue and place it there. 3) Would it be possible to print the complete homepage download including links in one ' click ' similar to printing a file rather then to print page by page I dunno, some other person has to help you there sorry : //Christian Gundersson /Gimp amateur Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Gimp-user] Tutorial Pointers Page in PDF format (former : Re. Good tutorial in PDF format)
On Saturday 08 June 2002 12:28 pm, Christian Gundersson wrote: lör 2002-06-08 klockan 18.17 skrev Stephen Liu: Hi Massimiliano, Thanks for your advice. The wget tool sounds similar to weblicator in Windows, downloading the complete homepage including all links for offline browsing. Before start please advise : 1) How to check whether the wget tool has been installed ? Asuming you use rpm then, rpm -qa | grep wget in a terminal should do the trick. If you get a line saying something like wget-1.23-i386 then it's installed. 2) Where shall the complete homepage be stored, in which folder/directory ? Wherever you preffer, a good advice is ~/downloads/name-of-homepage. Just make a directory in your homecatalogue and place it there. 3) Would it be possible to print the complete homepage download including links in one ' click ' similar to printing a file rather then to print page by page I dunno, some other person has to help you there sorry : //Christian Gundersson /Gimp amateur Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous On most Linux systems locate wget will find it and man wget will tell you more than you ever need to know. Wget is just a non-interactive version of ftp, comparable to the old uucp method of unattended file transfer. I just used it to download all the Context manuals. It took two steps. First I downloaded a list of manuals and second I referenced that list and downloaded the manuals themselves. HTH -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com __ D O T E A S Y - Join the web hosting revolution! http://www.doteasy.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tutorial Pointers Page in PDF format (former : Re. Good tutorial in PDF format)
From his headers, Stephen Liu is on a windows machine, which means he may lack most of the nice linux/unix web tools such as wget, etc. Are there any other windows users out there who have tried to download/convert the various GIMP tutorials? -- --Jeff Jeff Trefftzs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tcsn.net/trefftzsHome Page http://gug.sunsite.dk/gallery.php?artist=68 Gimp Gallery http://trefftzs.topcities.com/home.html Photo galleries ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Tutorial Pointers Page in PDF format (former :Re. Good tutorial in PDF format)
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: wget exists for Win32, so do lot of Unix tools (search for Cygwin or POSIX or any other terms), like a decent shell. Dunno if NS is capable of printing to PS directly under MS Windows, and that is a first step towards the ps2pdf path. First, I think its in place to point out that we've now drifted quite far from the solution the poor guy originally requested. Shellscripting etc is not a simple solution, which his question In which folder will the site be stored illustrates, quite unintuitive, and all of this still demands the downloading of entire sites in HTML... i.e. - not what was requested originally - simply tutorials in pdf, which might be quite a good idea to try providing further on. Though, converting to pdf etc. is still interesting, and my $0.02 is that printing to any FILE-connected (i.e. - choose FILE rather than LPR1/2) generic Postscript-printer under Windows will generate what seems to be a proper ps-file, just rename it from file.prn or whatever Windows prefers to call them, to file.ps. This seems to work, at least to the extent that I've brought such files (via gzip and scp) through the school's unix lpr-printers, they can be edited with mpage/psnup etc. Though, I figure that a good idea might be to also bring them through ps2ps to clean them up. My $0.02... /Carl-Johan -- (John Gilmore): The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. ICQ# 2357535 http://come.to/woc/ http://wlug.westbo.se/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
