Re: [Gimp-user] Searching GIMP user manual
On Tuesday 21 October 2008, First Last wrote: > Ok, let me explain the situation I had today that prompted the posting. I > have some photos that have some pretty bad vignetting and I was hoping GIMP > could take care of it for me. So I was expecting I could open the Help or > the user manual and just search for "vignetting" and that would take me > right to the spot in the manual that would explain it. Since the manual is a manual and not a selection of tutorials, you'll find mainly documentation about GIMP's functions there, not about how to use them for some effect or another. So even a search function doesn't replace a broader search across other web sites. Luckily for you, there's an official tutorial that might do what you want, although it's not in the manual: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Quickmask/ I hope this link helps, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Searching GIMP user manual
Ok, let me explain the situation I had today that prompted the posting. I have some photos that have some pretty bad vignetting and I was hoping GIMP could take care of it for me. So I was expecting I could open the Help or the user manual and just search for "vignetting" and that would take me right to the spot in the manual that would explain it. But to my surprise there was no way to search for that. The "find in page" is less useful because I'd have to be in the page that described vignetting to actually find it, and if I were there, I probably wouldn't need to find it. :-) So the entire manual search function would be very very cool to have. Meanwhile, if you happen to know where I can find something on fixing vignetting and could point me to it, I'd be very grateful! Oh, I did find in the web page search that the 2.4 "what's new" release notes mentioned vignetting under the Lens Distortion section, but with no links to Lens Distortion (and me not doing an exhaustive search of the index), I couldn't find it quickly. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Searching GIMP user manual
Sven Newman wrote >Another question: Do you know that that you can open the relevant page >in the user manual by pressing the F1 key (or using the Help button) in >each GIMP dialog and also on each menu item in GIMP? On some computer that is done by SHIFT +F1 while only F1 open the more generic helph and no the context help __ Do You Yahoo!? Poco spazio e tanto spam? Yahoo! Mail ti protegge dallo spam e ti da tanto spazio gratuito per i tuoi file e i messaggi http://mail.yahoo.it ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Searching GIMP user manual
Hi, On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 22:51 +0200, Daniel Hornung wrote: > The articles are well linked between each other, but that's a tedious way of > finding the relevant piece of information. Probably it's not a real search > that's needed but a link to the index, so here it is (to the original > poster): > > http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-help-index.html Well, the index is always just one click away in the help-browser. And in the new help-browser the index is even present all the time in the side-pane on the left side. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Searching GIMP user manual
On Sunday 19 October 2008, Sven Neumann wrote: > > I am a new user to GIMP, but haven't for the life of me been able to > > find a way to search the GIMP user manual or help. > > I am interested to learn why you need to search the user manual at all. > > We might want to add such a feature, but that requires us to understand > under what circumstances a user would want to perform a search in the > user manual and what he/she would be searching for. Hi, often information about one topic is scattered around the manual, which probably can ahrdly be avoided. As an example, selections are covered in articles about their tool preference dialogs, the Select menu, the quickmask, a general introduction (gimp-painting.html), gimp-using-selections.html (the most asked for on irc) and several others (convert to/from selections). The articles are well linked between each other, but that's a tedious way of finding the relevant piece of information. Probably it's not a real search that's needed but a link to the index, so here it is (to the original poster): http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-help-index.html Another way to search the manual is to use you favourite search engine, google for example works with search terms like this: "site:docs.gimp.org/en/ " Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Searching GIMP user manual
First Last wrote: > I am a new user to GIMP, but haven't for the life of me been able to find a > way to search the GIMP user manual or help. I'm expecting to see a box where > I can enter a word to search for, but can't see one and can't find an icon to > produce one. And since the doc comes up in a window with no Edit option, > there's also no Windows-like find in this page option either. Help!!! > Use the documentation online, and search with Google, e.g.: layers site:docs.gimp.org Jon ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Searching GIMP user manual
Hi, On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 12:07 -0700, First Last wrote: > I am a new user to GIMP, but haven't for the life of me been able to > find a way to search the GIMP user manual or help. I am interested to learn why you need to search the user manual at all. We might want to add such a feature, but that requires us to understand under what circumstances a user would want to perform a search in the user manual and what he/she would be searching for. Another question: Do you know that that you can open the relevant page in the user manual by pressing the F1 key (or using the Help button) in each GIMP dialog and also on each menu item in GIMP? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Searching GIMP user manual
Hi, On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 12:07 -0700, First Last wrote: > I am a new user to GIMP, but haven't for the life of me been able to > find a way to search the GIMP user manual or help. There is no search option in the locally installed user manual (yet). But you can use the search entry in the online version at http://docs.gimp.org/ > I'm expecting to see a box where I can enter a word to search for, > but can't see one and can't find an icon to produce one. And since > the doc comes up in a window with no Edit option, there's also no > Windows-like find in this page option either. The new help-browser in the 2.6 version of GIMP does provide "find in this page" functionality though. Just press Ctrl-F to activate it. Unfortunately the installer that Jernej provides for the Windows platform does not include the new help-browser plug-in. It seems to be problematic to build the GTK+ version of webkit on Windows. Hopefully someone can manage to do this build at some point so that users on the Windows platform can also benefit from the much improved help browser in GIMP 2.6. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Searching GIMP user manual
I am a new user to GIMP, but haven't for the life of me been able to find a way to search the GIMP user manual or help. I'm expecting to see a box where I can enter a word to search for, but can't see one and can't find an icon to produce one. And since the doc comes up in a window with no Edit option, there's also no Windows-like find in this page option either. Help!!! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
