October 2008 - Inkscape Docs - Inkscape Mailman

Inkscape Book
by adam hyde 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

hi, The Inkscape book is online. Its looking great! We need to get the word out. Remember all the proceeds go to the development of the manual - one idea is to sell copies so we can afford doing another inkscape book sprint. So..to help promote the book it would be great if anyone with a website log etc could cut and paste the following into their site: <img src="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.gif"/> <style> @import url("http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.css"); </style> <script src="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> FM.init({"items":1,"paging":true,"preferred":["Inkscape"]}); </script> This will show the book in a small 'ajax' insert in your page and link to the page with more info about it and a link to buy the book. There is more info on configuring the embeddable shop if you look here: http://www.flossmanuals.net/bookstore 2 euro (about 2.5 USD) is made from each sale. The team can then decide what to do with the $, I personally hope it will go towards another book sprint. FLOSS Manuals takes no $ but I hope the team will make a donation to FLOSS Manuals from sales to help us build and maintain the tools/community etc. adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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book now online
by adam hyde 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

congrats :) the book is online for sale at a 2 euro mark-up. You can see i here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ if you want to embed the shop to promote its sale you can use this: <style> @import url("http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.css"); </style> <img src="http://www.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.gif" style="margin-bottom:2px;"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://stores.lulu.com/feed.php?fStore=flossmanuals&fFormat=js"></script> the maintainers for the project are: cedric, elisa, joshua and alexandre. You guys decide on what to do with the income. We suggest putting towards another Book Sprint and perhaps a donation to FM, but its entirely up to you. adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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Re: [Inkscape-docs] covers
by Elisa-yemanja 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Le Friday 24 October 2008 18:09:02 adam hyde, vous avez écrit : > hey > > Lotte designed 2 covers: > http://adam.engagetv.com/covers/ > > i can make the book available once we have made a decision on which to > use. takes 2 minutes to get it in the FM shop :) > > adam Very beautiful i love the two covers. Just un the second text are not visible with the background under the text. Thanks to Lotte -- Elisa

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covers
by adam hyde 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

hey Lotte designed 2 covers: http://adam.engagetv.com/covers/ i can make the book available once we have made a decision on which to use. takes 2 minutes to get it in the FM shop :) adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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done and done?
by adam hyde 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

hey So I have been through the whole manual. It looks great! Can you guys check it: http://en.flossmanuals.net/inkscape I think its ready to out online...I will also generate a PDF print-ready copy for you all to look at adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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inkscape translation zone
by adam hyde 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

okeee.... http://translate.flossmanuals.net/write Is set up with three ready to go translations of Inkscape_en: de, br, ru I have left the rest because we need to train someone to do this and its best we do this with something real. This is the FM translation zone and it will change a bit in look and feel to differentiate it from FM in general. In essence it is a temp zone, the idea that we want complete FM lang communities, so if we use this for translations and build up a lot in any one lang we will then start discussing a full FM install for that lang ok...it is doubtless that we will need to tweak the FM translation zone. I dont know how br,ru, or de char sets work in the editor...thats the first thing to check...also I need to find a god way to be able change the lang of the editor etc so, patience is a wonderful virtue :) if u find something kookie let me know and we can have a look quite quickly to see how to resolve it... in the meantime my priorities are coffee and gym :)...back in a few hrs adam -- Adam Hyde FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net + 31 6 2808 7108

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book
by adam hyde 19 Oct '08

19 Oct '08

hey I have put a copy of the print-ready PDF here: http://adam.engagetv.com/inkscape.pdf do you guys want to sell a book? We put a markup of 2 euro on it, the income of which you manage (so you can out towards another sprint etc ) adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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manual in place...check check
by adam hyde 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

hey I removed the chapters marked 'incomplete' from the index. This included the following chapters: Render (Effects Menu) Generate from path Visualize Path Tile Clone Boolean Path Operations Rows and Columns Grids and Guides Transform Color ALL bitmap chapters XML Editor View Modes Document Properties Customisation Glosaary Hot keys cheat sheet Inkscape Community Inkscape and Wikipedia You can see it all here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Inkscape/WebHome I have also renamed index items as they had explanations in the titles. The FM index system at this time cant display this well so we need to keep titles short. Even though I removed a lot the index is still thorough. If anyone can go through the chapters with me and check things we can have a version online within a few days. I really think we need to do this as otherwise all that good work will be out of date and never used. Anyone want to chip in? :) adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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Re : oioi
by Nicolas Dufour 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

Hi Adam > so...the floss manuals bookstore is open for business...when shall we > put the inkscape book in it? Well, both EN and FR manuals need lots of work before adding them to the bookstore... I'll try to free some time after january 2009 for the french part, but I can't do anything before. The exported PDF is 200+ pages! Seems huge to me, even if the subject is complex and wide. What about making it more compact, so that it could be easier and faster to release as a finished manual? And work on the parts we put aside afterward? -- Nicolas

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oioi
by adam hyde 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

heyho so...the floss manuals bookstore is open for business...when shall we put the inkscape book in it? :) adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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