On 15.06.2008, at 08:53, Ted Kaehler wrote:
Folks, Inside Etoys, if you click the Help icon at the upper left of the screen, you get a flap with the QuickGuides in it. Each QuickGuide tells how to do something in Etoys. Kathleen Harness is the author of these excellent guides. Editorial and technical assistance were provided by Kim Rose and Ted Kaehler.
Besides being inside every copy of Etoys, the QuickGuides are also on the web at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys_QuickGuides_Index
Now, the QuickGuides are gathered together in a single .pdf file. This allows you to download them all at once, print them, or copy them to other media. Get the file from http://wiki.laptop.org/images/8/81/The_Etoys_Quick_Guides.pdf
I hope that the QuickGuides .pdf document is useful.
Are you sure you uploaded the right PDF? This looks like nothing more than a web page printed as PDF, which is not too useful, since one could easily print the html page directly.
Now if it was arranged so that 4 guides are on each page, if there were page numbers and a table of contents, that would be useful.
What would be even better (though much more work indeed) is to create a PDF directly by exporting the guides as PostScript, not take the bitmaps. That should considerably reduce the size of the PDF and have a better quality (at least in the parts where actual morphs embedded instead of screen-grabs of them)
Unfortunately the PostScript exporter never worked really well, so the current results (after patching it to work at all) are somewhat unsatisfactory, see attachment. I exported one book (a guide with 4 pages) as PS and converted it to PDF using Preview.app on my Mac.
- Bert -