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

[adam hyde]

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 15:31 +0100, Derek Holzer wrote:
> Really? That's unfortunate. Can't a separate PDF be generated and sent 
> to Lulu? Trying to optimize images for both screen and print is really 
> nightmarish, and perhaps not thinking in a media-specific way.
> 

it has worked for every manual so far and looks fine and it will look
and work fine here. just needs some tweaking as we discussed before

booki has more sophisticated greyscale but we are still working on other
issues (such as widow and orphan control)

adam



> D.
> 
> adam hyde wrote:
> > for the book we need color images that print well in b+w. not greyscale
> > images since there is only 1 version of the book used for both the web
> > and the book
> > 
> > adam
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 11:55 +0100, Derek Holzer wrote:
> >> Hi Maria,
> >>
> >> it would be great if you could work converting the images to grayscale 
> >> (desaturate in GIMP terms) into this process. Then print on a decent 
> >> printer to test how they come out.
> >>
> >> Once you've got something which works, could you please post the steps 
> >> to the list here, and someone can work out the script to automate the 
> >> process.
> >>
> >> thx+best!
> >> Derek
> >>
> >> Maria Claudia de Azevedo Borges wrote:
> >>> Hi, I enhanced the contrast of these 2 images as test. What do you think?
> >>>
> >>> Best
> >>> Claudia
> > 
> > 
> 


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