Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-26 Thread Mogens Jæger
Den 26-01-2013 09:32, JLuc skrev: Le 26/01/2013 01:56, Steve Kinney a écrit : You might want to take a look at the PDF file for the sample chapter Ironically, the only thing I found that would make the PDF readable here, was to import it into the GIMP. I found a script to export the layers as i

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-26 Thread JLuc
Le 26/01/2013 01:56, Steve Kinney a écrit : You might want to take a look at the PDF file for the sample chapter Ironically, the only thing I found that would make the PDF readable here, was to import it into the GIMP. I found a script to export the layers as images, and used Imagemagick to make

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-26 Thread Steve Kinney
On 01/26/2013 01:42 AM, Olivier wrote: > To all who downloaded Chapter 5 of my book from No Starch's website: > > I generated the original PDF using pdflatex on my Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) > computer, but the people at No Starch added the book cover in front of > the PDF. Anyway, on my own computer I

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-25 Thread Olivier
To all who downloaded Chapter 5 of my book from No Starch's website: I generated the original PDF using pdflatex on my Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) computer, but the people at No Starch added the book cover in front of the PDF. Anyway, on my own computer I can look at this file using Evince, Okular, Docum

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-25 Thread Steve Kinney
On 01/25/2013 10:07 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Steve Kinney wrote: > >> Hey Olivier, >> >> You might want to take a look at the PDF file for the sample >> chapter: In Evince, I could only see the images and page footers; >> text was blank, and highlighting

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Steve Kinney wrote: > Hey Olivier, > > You might want to take a look at the PDF file for the sample > chapter: In Evince, I could only see the images and page footers; > text was blank, and highlighting did not make it visible. Evince 3.6.0, poppler/cairo 0.20.4

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-25 Thread Steve Kinney
On 01/25/2013 08:50 PM, upscope wrote: > > You don't say what browser you used. i just downloaded chaper 5 from the link > and then My Browser SeaMonkey open in Okular just fine. Of Course I'm in a > Linux environment. Browser? I downloaded the file to my desktop (Mint 14 w/Cinnamon) and trie

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-25 Thread upscope
On Friday, January 25, 2013 07:56:09 PM Steve Kinney wrote: > On 01/24/2013 09:10 PM, Steve Kinney wrote: > > On 01/24/2013 07:11 PM, Christen Anderson wrote: > >> I just ordered it!! can't wait for it to get here!! > >> > >> ~Christen > >> > >> On 1/23/2013 11:17 PM, Olivier wrote: > >>> See htt

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-25 Thread Christen Anderson
On 1/25/2013 5:56 PM, Steve Kinney wrote: Hey Olivier, You might want to take a look at the PDF file for the sample chapter: In Evince, I could only see the images and page footers; text was blank, and highlighting did not make it visible. Converting it to ePub with Calibre brought the text bac

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-25 Thread Steve Kinney
On 01/24/2013 09:10 PM, Steve Kinney wrote: > On 01/24/2013 07:11 PM, Christen Anderson wrote: >> I just ordered it!! can't wait for it to get here!! >> >> ~Christen >> >> On 1/23/2013 11:17 PM, Olivier wrote: >>> See http://nostar.ch/BoG_promo > > And so as you can see, politely plugging your boo

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book

2013-01-24 Thread Steve Kinney
On 01/24/2013 07:11 PM, Christen Anderson wrote: > I just ordered it!! can't wait for it to get here!! > > ~Christen > > On 1/23/2013 11:17 PM, Olivier wrote: >> See http://nostar.ch/BoG_promo And so as you can see, politely plugging your book about the GIMP is on topic and very welcome here! :

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book

2013-01-24 Thread Christen Anderson
I just ordered it!! can't wait for it to get here!! ~Christen On 1/23/2013 11:17 PM, Olivier wrote: See http://nostar.ch/BoG_promo -- Behind the Feather Curtain ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book

2013-01-24 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Olivier [01-01-70 12:34]: > 2013/1/24 Thomas Widlar : > > I ordered it from Amazon for $26.34. > > Yes, Amazon is smashing publishers and bookstores. And when there will > be no more publishers, what books will Amazon sell? Automobile crank starter kits Slide Rules Logarithm tables Mercury the

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book

2013-01-24 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Olivier wrote: > Yes, Amazon is smashing publishers and bookstores. And when there will > be no more publishers, what books will Amazon sell? Welcome to Amazon KDP :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book

2013-01-24 Thread Olivier
2013/1/24 Thomas Widlar : > I ordered it from Amazon for $26.34. Yes, Amazon is smashing publishers and bookstores. And when there will be no more publishers, what books will Amazon sell? -- Olivier Lecarme ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book

2013-01-24 Thread Thomas Widlar
I ordered it from Amazon for $26.34. On 1/24/2013 10:55 AM, Olivier wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 07:17 +0100, Olivier wrote: See http://nostar.ch/BoG_promo Olivier, I'm sure it would actually be fine to send a synopsis of the book to this list for people's information; I think that's more u

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book

2013-01-24 Thread Olivier
2013/1/24 Liam R E Quin : > On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 07:17 +0100, Olivier wrote: >> See http://nostar.ch/BoG_promo > > Olivier, I'm sure it would actually be fine to send a synopsis of the > book to this list for people's information; I think that's more useful > than being too embarrassed to tell peo

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book

2013-01-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 07:17 +0100, Olivier wrote: > See http://nostar.ch/BoG_promo Olivier, I'm sure it would actually be fine to send a synopsis of the book to this list for people's information; I think that's more useful than being too embarrassed to tell people the book is on sale this week :-

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book

2013-01-24 Thread Olivier
2013/1/24 Michael Schumacher : >> Von: Olivier > >> See http://nostar.ch/BoG_promo > > Are you trying to get into any known block list and spam filter? > > Posts and mails with only a single link for content tend to achieve this > nowadays. I'm really sorry. Since this message was a sort of adve

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book

2013-01-24 Thread Michael Schumacher
> Von: Olivier > See http://nostar.ch/BoG_promo Are you trying to get into any known block list and spam filter? Posts and mails with only a single link for content tend to achieve this nowadays. HTH, Michael ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-us