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

[Maria Claudia de Azevedo Borges]

So, if I figure out what would be the good setting for all of them,  
someone can make a shell script?
:-)


On Dec 8, 2009, at 7:12 PM, William Abernathy wrote:

> 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
>
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