[Techtalk] Gimp tutorials

[Miriam English]

Nooooo! PDF is a terrible format -- useful only for viewing on 
dead-trees. I've always found the name to be almost Orwellian: the 
format is the opposite of portable, in that it can't easily be converted 
back out of pdf again. Even worse, the bloated viewer demands you have a 
relatively powerful machine and lots of RAM, commonly crashing older 
machines. In this, the electronic age, I don't understand why so many 
people still want to print stuff on paper.

I use wget to grab copies of what I want to archive and browse offline. 
I use a small wrapper script which I call dlsite. This is the heart of 
it (it should all be on one line, of course):

wget  -m -k -p -E -l 0 
-R.pdf,.gz,.tar,.tgz,.ps,.exe,.bz2,.sig,.zip,.rpm,.deb,.dmg,.mpg,.mpeg,.mp2,.mp3,.mp4,.avi,.mov,.qt,.swf,.wav,.au,.iso,.hqx,.sit,.Z 
-np --user-agent="" http://some.address/sub/directory/file.html

What the options mean:
-m  shortcut option equivalent to -r -N -l inf -nr
     -r  recursive download
     -N  don't re-retrieve files unless newer than local
     -l inf  infinite recursion depth
     -nr  don't remove '.listing' files
-k  converts all the links to point to the locally downloaded files
-p  gets all the parts of the page
-E  save all text/html documents with .html extension
-l 0  maximum recursion depth (inf or 0 for infinite) for some reason 
often needed
-R<list>  comma-separated list of rejected extensions
-np  don't ascend to parent directories
--user-agent=""  some sites block wget so this doesn't say what it is

Best wishes, and hope you can break the paper habit :)

	- Miriam

A. Mani wrote:
> They have interesting tutorials at  http://www.gimpusers.com
>
> It will help if these are available in pdf format (minus all the
> extras on the page).... matters if these are to be distributed/used in
> a workshop.
>
> How will you achieve this with a one liner?
>
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>
> Best
>
> A. Mani
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> A. Mani
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