[Techtalk] Gimp tutorials

[Maria McKinley]

The problem is that there is no good alternative to pdf. Even on old
machines, you can be pretty sure that people will be able to look at them,
and there is no other format, besides html that you can be sure of.

~maria


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Miriam English <mim at miriam-english.org>wrote:

> 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<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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Best
>>
>> A. Mani
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> A. Mani
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