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

[Derek Holzer]

That's exactly what I had in mind, William ;-)

Thanks to everybody that's expressed some interest in this task!

D.

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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