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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Book cover for the Free Culture book finally done</div>
  24       <div class="date"> 3rd September 2015</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Creating a good looking book cover proved harder than I expected.
  26 I wanted to create a cover looking similar to the original cover of
  27 the
  28 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Free
  29 Culture</a> book we are translating to Norwegian, and I wanted it in
  30 vector format for high resolution printing.  But my inkscape knowledge
  31 were not nearly good enough to pull that off.
  32
  33 <p>But thanks to the great inkscape community, I was able to wrap up
  34 the cover yesterday evening.  I asked on the
  35 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23inkscape">#inkscape IRC channel</a>
  36 on Freenode for help and clues, and Marc Jeanmougin (Mc-) volunteered
  37 to try to recreate it based on the PDF of the cover from the HTML
  38 version.  Not only did he create a
  39 <a href="https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/copy1.svg ">SVG document with
  40 the original and his vector version side by side</a>, he even provided
  41 an <a href="https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/out-1.ogv">instruction
  42 video</a> explaining how he did it</a>.  But the instruction video is
  43 not easy to follow for an untrained inkscape user. The video is a
  44 recording on how he did it, and he is obviously very experienced as
  45 the menu selections are very quick and he mentioned on IRC that he did
  46 use some keyboard shortcuts that can't be seen on the video, but it
  47 give a good idea about the inkscape operations to use to create the
  48 stripes with the embossed copyright sign in the center.</p>
  49
  50 <p>I took his SVG file, copied the vector image and re-sized it to fit
  51 on the cover I was drawing.  I am happy with the end result, and the
  52 current english version look like this:</p>
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  54 <img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.png" width="70%" align="center"/>
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  56 <p>I am not quite sure about the text on the back, but guess it will
  57 do.  I picked three quotes from the official site for the book, and
  58 hope it will work to trigger the interest of potential readers.  The
  59 Norwegian cover will look the same, but with the texts and bar code
  60 replaced with the Norwegian version.</p>
  61
  62 <p>The book is very close to being ready for publication, and I expect
  63 to upload the final draft to Lulu in the next few days and order a
  64 final proof reading copy to verify that everything look like it should
  65 before allowing everyone to order their own copy of Free Culture, in
  66 English or Norwegian Bokmål.  I'm waiting to give the the productive
  67 proof readers a chance to complete their work.</p>
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  70       <div class="tags">Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>.</div>
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