On Thursday 06 June 2002 08:46 pm, Stephen Liu wrote:

Hi All People,

I just join this list.

Could any guy advise me where can I find/download a good Gimp tutorial in PDF format.

I found following site :

http://empyrean.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/~nem/gimp/tuts/

in html format. I fail to discover whether it is available in PDF format.

Thanks in advance.

Stephen Liu

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There are many tutorials referenced at www.gimp.org. have you exhausted them?

And of course there is the grandest tutorial of them all, 900 plus pages. It is called the Gimp Reference Manual, and is downloadable in pdf form.

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

Stephen Liu wrote:

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'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??

satimis@writeme.com (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

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 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