[FM Discuss] Ardour FLOSS Manual: call for GIMP wizard

[William Abernathy]

I apologize in advance if I'm stating the obvious. I can't script my way out of 
a wet paper sack, but the way I'd go about this (if I could...) would be to 
figure out the appropriate tweak or short list of tweaks in GIMP, then 
investigate making a shell script to do it, using convert.

convert is totally cool -- it lets you edit photos from the command line.

--William


Derek Holzer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> the Ardour FLOSS Manual is complete (for now), and it looks really 
> damned good on the screen:
> 
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/ardour/
> 
> However, Ardour's UI color/contrast scheme (gray on gray) doesn't lend 
> itself well to the printed page. Adam Hyde and I wanted to ask if there 
> was anyone on the FLOSS Manuals, Ardour-Users or Linux-Audio-User lists 
> who could help.
> 
> We had the idea that someone with good GIMP skills could work out a 
> decent contrast-correction that could be applied to all the images to 
> make them more print-friendly, and then simply execute those parameters 
> on the entire manual's worth of images as a batch action (preserving the 
> folder structures, of course!).
> 
> The images can be downloaded here:
> 
> http://adam.engagetv.com/ard.tar.gz
> 
> Please let us know on or off list if you can help with this. I imagine 
> the corrected images would only be applied to the print version of the 
> manual as it is available via Lulu.com. (This manual will not be marked 
> up for profit, by the way!)
> 
> Thx+best!
> Derek
>