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

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On Friday, January 25, 2013 07:56:09 PM Steve Kinney wrote:
> 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,
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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
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You don't say what browser you used. i just downloaded chaper 5 from the link 
and then My Browser SeaMonkey open in Okular just fine. Of Course I'm in a 
Linux environment.

looks like an interesting book.

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