blog/data/2015-08-19-free-culture-on-paper.txt

   1 Title: In my hand, a pocket book edition of the Norwegian Free Culture book!
   2 Tags: english, docbook, freeculture
   3 Date: 2015-08-19 22:10
   4
   5 <p>Today, finally, my first printed draft edition of the Norwegian
   6 translation of Free Culture I have been working on for the last few
   7 years arrived in the mail.  I had to fake a cover to get the interior
   8 printed, and the exterior of the book look awful, but that is
   9 irrelevant at this point.  I asked for a printed pocket book version
  10 to get an idea about the font sizes and paper format as well as how
  11 good the figures and images look in print, but also to test what the
  12 pocket book version would look like.  After receiving the 500 page
  13 pocket book, it became obvious to me that that pocket book size is too
  14 small for this book.  I believe the book is too thick, and several
  15 tables and figures do not look good in the size they get with that
  16 small page sizes.  I believe I will go with the 5.5x8.5 inch size
  17 instead.  A surprise discovery from the paper version was how bad the
  18 URLs look in print.  They are very hard to read in the colophon page.
  19 The URLs are red in the PDF, but light gray on paper.  I need to
  20 change the color of links somehow to look better.  But there is a
  21 printed book in my hand, and it feels great. :)</p>
  22
  23 <p>Now I only need to fix the cover, wrap up the postscript with the
  24 store behind the book, and collect the last corrections from the proof
  25 readers before the book is ready for proper printing.  Cover artists
  26 willing to work for free and create a Creative Commons licensed vector
  27 file looking similar to the original is most welcome, as my skills as
  28 a graphics designer are mostly missing.</p>