Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

[Steve Kinney <admin pilobilus net>]

On 01/24/2013 09:10 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
> On 01/24/2013 07:11 PM, Christen Anderson wrote:
> > I just ordered it!! can't wait for it to get here!!
> >
> > ~Christen
> >
> > On 1/23/2013 11:17 PM, Olivier wrote:
> > > See http://nostar.ch/BoG_promo
>
> And so as you can see, politely plugging your book about the GIMP is
> on topic and very welcome here!

Hey Olivier,

You might want to take a look at the PDF file for the sample
chapter:  In Evince, I could only see the images and page footers;
text was blank, and highlighting did not make it visible.
Converting it to ePub with Calibre brought the text back, but the
page layouts were so badly chopped up that I could not make sense of
them.

Ironically, the only thing I found that would make the PDF readable
here, was to import it into the GIMP.  I found a script to export
the layers as images, and used Imagemagick to make them into a PDF
for convenient reading.  (Ironic?)  BTW that script rocks:

http://registry.gimp.org/node/25394

This shows up at File > Layers next to the other Export commands.

My result is readable but not good enough to distribute for
promotional purposes.  I have not read it yet but it looks promising
and I will comment later...

:o)

Steve