New Inkscape Beginners Manual
6. června 2017 17:34
A small team of translators and other editors is excited to announce that work has started on an Inkscape guide, which is written specifically for beginners. The focus is on "how" rather than "why", and is meant to gently guide new Inkscape users through all the most basic features.
Technically, it's derived from a manual which was originally published by a French team, led by Elisa de Castro Guerra. Currently the focus is on translating it to English. Once translated, it will be ready for a few updates. And we've discussed adding some extra chapters or features, such as a glossary and/or a troubleshooting section.
It's being translated and edited using the FLOSS Manuals interface, but will eventually be published to the web and optionally downloadable as PDF. The real beauty of this manual is that its license allows it to be managed by the community, so that when future updates are needed, they can be done by anyone willing to register on FLOSS Manuals, and do the work!
If you have some time, and are interested in helping, the project could use a few more people with the following types of skills:
- Some Inkscape beginners who would like to review it for us - tell us if they understand it, if there are parts which are too hard or confusing, generally any constructive comments about it. This includes people who have experience teaching Inkscape to students, who can recognize any potential rough places, or suggest improvements.
→ Help with this task! - One to three web designers who can help investigate the Booktype CSS options, find out about style options, and work together on a design and layout for web (HTML) version of the book. Also, if possible, they could create a style for the PDF, epub and, possibly, a printed version.
→ Help with this task! - Two or three people who can act as quality assurance - make sure proper terms are used consistently throughout, various font types (along with HTML tags) are used in the proper places, etc.
→ Help with this task! - One or two people working together to make screenshots and other graphics, so they are consistent throughout. Preferably Windows users, using the current stable version, and the Wide display mode with default icon set.
→ Help with this task! - A volunteer for helping with the final page layout of the book.
→ Help with this task!
If you can help with these or with other tasks in our task list, please contact the team, either directly on the task at gitlab, or by posting a message to the Docs mailing list. All editors need to be subscribed to the list for updates and discussion about global topics.
