Re: [Gimp-web] Proposed gimp tutorial

Stephen Kiel <snick.kiel@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:19:43 -0800

Pat,

I finally finished the tutorial that I was talking about with you a couple of months ago.  You mentioned then that I could either send it in Word Processor format or take attempt to convert it to HTML.

Which of the two methods would be easiest for you?  I am not sure if it is easier to fix a document that I might get partially 'right' or just start from scratch.  Maybe you could take a look at it and give me your opinion on the best way to proceed.

I have it on a Box.net share at https://app.box.com/s/mbd93d12ha6t1gvzgbhy

You should see the file AutomateEditingInGimp.odt and the corresponding .pdf file.  It was written using LibreOffice Writer.  The jpeg pictures in the same directory.  The code examples are in the directories plug-ins and myXml.

I was able to get html directly out of Writer that looked real good in Firefox, I just don't know if some of the tags might cause problems within the help system.  If not, the job could be easy!  One problem that I did notice with the automatically generated html was that the images were no longer centered, but other than this issue, it looked good, and the links seemed to work.  If you want me to generate a copy of the html, let me know.

The tutorial is kind of long, wish I could have made it shorter, but since it uses some Gimp features that aren't documented elsewhere, I had to expand on them.

Anyway, let me know if there are issues or feedback and whether you think it would be better for you to format the tutorial or if you want me to take a first pass at it.

Thanks,

Stephen Kiel

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Pat David <patdavid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you want to keep it in a word processor, I can just translate it from there.
You can also use google docs if you want to share it with my acct through there. 

On Wednesday, October 16, 2013, Stephen Kiel  wrote:

Pat,

That sounds great.  I will plan to write in a word processor (with a spell checker) & then dump it into bluefish to add the html tags.  If that works it should make the whole authoring process pretty straightforward.  I would prefer to stay in a word processor form rough to final draft & minimize editing of the html for of the document in order to avoid accidentally goofing up the closures.

I am on my way out of town for a couple of days as well, I will touch base again when I get closer to a finished tutorial.

Thanks,

Stephen

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Pat David <patdavid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just stick to clean, plain HTML and you should be fine. Style inline if you want, I'll move it to an external style sheet anyway. 
You can publish screen grabs if gimp non problem I believe. Someone may correct me. 

I'll be out of town for a few days, but just hit me up when you're ready for testing. 

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