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.
--Ted.
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 -
At 1:03 PM +0200 6/15/08, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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.
Bert, Yes, it is indeed the web pages combined into a PDF. It is useful for downloading all the guides at once, and having them all in one document. Fetching and printing the web pages separately would take hours. And, each would have the annoying sidebar on the first page.
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.
Yes, what application would allow me to do this under program control? I have no experience in creating PDFs. I may be able to produce four guides up on a page, and landscape mode, and page numbers. How do I make a table of contents?
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,
Yep, I tried it too. Maybe we could ask for a volunteer to improve the PostScript writer enough to export the guides? If you fixed things to produce your example, please upload your changes. There seems to be a font size issue.
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 -
On 15.06.2008, at 19:56, Ted Kaehler wrote:
At 1:03 PM +0200 6/15/08, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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.
Bert, Yes, it is indeed the web pages combined into a PDF. It is useful for downloading all the guides at once, and having them all in one document. Fetching and printing the web pages separately would take hours. And, each would have the annoying sidebar on the first page.
I thought you generated the HTML embedding the guides in one big page, so you could put that on a website for everyone to print.
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.
Yes, what application would allow me to do this under program control? I have no experience in creating PDFs. I may be able to produce four guides up on a page, and landscape mode, and page numbers. How do I make a table of contents?
HTML might be the simplest. You just write a method that generates the HTML code for the one big page, with a TOC at the beginning, and say H1 headings for each 2x2 group guides. In a browser that would appear as one long page. But by adding a "page-break-before: always" style to the H1 heading you can ensure page breaks when printing.
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,
Yep, I tried it too. Maybe we could ask for a volunteer to improve the PostScript writer enough to export the guides? If you fixed things to produce your example, please upload your changes. There seems to be a font size issue.
I did.
- Bert -
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 -
On Monday 16 Jun 2008 2:33:09 pm Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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.
Yes, what application would allow me to do this under program control? I have no experience in creating PDFs. I may be able to produce four guides up on a page, and landscape mode, and page numbers. How do I make a table of contents?
HTML might be the simplest. You just write a method that generates the HTML code for the one big page, with a TOC at the beginning, and say H1 headings for each 2x2 group guides. In a browser that would appear as one long page. But by adding a "page-break-before: always" style to the H1 heading you can ensure page breaks when printing.
Why repeat the effort for every output type? If the master is done in LaTeX, then the same source can be used for generating web content, PDF and multi-page booklets.
Subbu
On 17.06.2008, at 07:49, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
On Monday 16 Jun 2008 2:33:09 pm Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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.
Yes, what application would allow me to do this under program control? I have no experience in creating PDFs. I may be able to produce four guides up on a page, and landscape mode, and page numbers. How do I make a table of contents?
HTML might be the simplest. You just write a method that generates the HTML code for the one big page, with a TOC at the beginning, and say H1 headings for each 2x2 group guides. In a browser that would appear as one long page. But by adding a "page-break-before: always" style to the H1 heading you can ensure page breaks when printing.
Why repeat the effort for every output type? If the master is done in LaTeX, then the same source can be used for generating web content, PDF and multi-page booklets.
Note I wrote "simplest" not "best" ;)
If Ted was familiar with TeX he certainly would have thought of this himself. But installing and learning TeX just for this is a bit much to ask.
- Bert -
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