On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:14:42PM +1000, Roman Joost wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:00:12AM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:17:50PM +0200, Ulf-D. Ehlert wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 02:41:02PM -0400, john Culleton wrote: > > > > Elaborate things break more often then simple things. All I want is a > > > > Gimp Manual in pdf form for version 2.8. I can print this out, put it > > > > in a ring binder and use it as needed. > > > > > > Making pdf always was problematic for some languages, the html manual > > > is IMO a better choice. BTW, do you really want to print some hundred > > > pages? > > > > PDF pages are no longer just for print but a mean to read with computer > > / tablet / ebook reader. I myself use a kindle to read GIMP books in PDF > > in the spare time. > > > > I would not underestimate the importance of the pdf format for a manual. > Perhaps it would make better sense, to remove the PDF functionality > (based on dblatex), since it never left a stable stage. > > The reason to choose dblatex was that FOP at the time was not mature > enough to produce good quality output. I think that has changed. DbLatex > worked well for latin content, but always seemed to give us headaches > with totally different character sets. Perhaps it's not dblatex fault, > just the lack investigating a good LaTeX -> PDF solution. > > Anyhow, perhaps it makes more sense to move to a epub/Kindle solution. I > can relate to Marco here, since I'm also using my Kindle to read most of > my books now. The Kindle format is even simiar to HTML. Not sure if > there are already packages out there who go from DocBook to Kindle/epub. There are powerful converters out there. See for example the Git book that is written in markdown and the pandoc suite or Calibre. References: http://git-scm.herokuapp.com/book http://git-scm.herokuapp.com/blog/2009/07/28/the-gory-details.html http://www.slideshare.net/larrycai/write-book-in-markdown http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/epub.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html https://github.com/LaPingvino/markdown-example-book http://calibre-ebook.com/ bye -- Marco Ciampa +--------------------+ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +--------------------+ _______________________________________________ gimp-docs-list mailing list gimp-docs-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list
