Hi Everyone,
On 2017 Apr 27 23:16:00, Victor Westmann wrote:
Hi team,
I was not sure as where I was supposed to open this discussion (or question) of mine.
I was just wondering... I do know that it takes a lot of time, and money, and then more time, and probably a lot of revisions... but do you guys think we can try to aim making something similar to this? https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/workbook/
This is a hard copy, printed, material that Affinity Designer, from the Serif company, sell. I confess I don't have a copy of this material (yet) as it seems it only exists, officially, in the printed version... but I saw some samples and was really inspired and eager to check if we could do something on our own more or less of the same kind.
We could try to use the Scribus to achieve such results.. and some open fonts (from Google and Adobe) and try to assemble 4 - 6 different big learning areas inside this Inkscape Activity Book.
Something similar that comes to my mind from Krita project is a book from Scott Petrovic called Digital painting with Krita 2.9 here is the link for it -> https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Painting-KRITA-2-9-Masterpiece/dp/0996851704/
I know this took a considerable energy and time for Scott to write this book, but it is a fine example of a reference book. So it is safe to say that the task is hard but it can be done :)
I know that we have a wiki (http://wiki.inkscape.org), but in my opinion it is not structured and presented properly. The krita wiki (docs.krita.org) had the same problem and they decided to refresh the design and content of the wiki to make it more user freindly and integrate it into krita branding.
I suggest, if currently an inkscape book is not possible, we should atleast refresh or restructure our wiki, may be integrate it with the Learn section of the website we can include chapters and topics like a proper books format and it can be a goto place of information for newbies and experts alike. We should also ask the community for making this possible. Later when someone is willing to do a book they can utilise the wiki and write a book based on that rather than starting from scratch.
Thank you