Re: Downloading the user manual

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On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 04:25:40PM +1000, Roman Joost wrote:
> Dear Eric,
> 
> tl;dr: we're not providing PDFs for download.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 08:28:05PM -0600, Eric Westfall wrote:
> > I can't seem to find a way to download the user's manual, as with most
> > manuals (in PDF), as opposed to having to use it manually online.
> > 
> > Am I missing something, or is that just a Gimp fact of life?
> We provided PDF versions of the manual for a while. The process involved
> never became stable and made it out of the work-in-progress state. That
> is, we can create PDFs for most latin languages, but there is no
> automated process available to provide them on our homepage for
> download. The PDFs are somewhat usable (readable, printable), but far
> from perfect.
> 
> Therefore you see only HTML versions of the manual.
> 
> If you can spare some free time I encourage you to have a look at our
> project with a git clone. If all dependencies are installed, a simple:
> 
>     ./autogen.sh
>     make pdf
> 
> will start creating PDFs. Keep in mind that this is for user manual
> developers only and not supposed to be run by an end-user (-reader).
> 
> Kind Regards,

Some (english and italian) already made pdf versions of the manual you
can download from here:

http://gimp.linux.it/www/meta/gimp-it.pdf
http://gimp.linux.it/www/meta/gimp-en.pdf

bye

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Marco Ciampa

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