Title: Book cover for the Free Culture book finally done
Tags: english, docbook, freeculture
-Date: 2015-09-03 20:40
+Date: 2015-09-03 21:00
<p>Creating a good looking book cover proved harder than I expected.
I wanted to create a cover looking similar to the original cover of
the
<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Free
Culture</a> book we are translating to Norwegian, and I wanted it in
-vector format for high resolution printing when I get the book printed
-on paper. But my inkscape knowledge were not nearly good enough to
-pull that off.
+vector format for high resolution printing. But my inkscape knowledge
+were not nearly good enough to pull that off.
<p>But thanks to the great inkscape community, I was able to wrap up
the cover yesterday evening. I asked on the
the original and his vector version side by side</a>, he even provided
an <a href="https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/out-1.ogv">instruction
video</a> explaining how he did it</a>. But the instruction video is
-not easy to follow. The video is a recording on how he did it, and he
-is obviously very experienced as the menu selections are very quick
-and he mentioned on IRC that he did use some keyboard shortcuts that
-can't be seen on the video, but it give a good idea about the inkscape
-operations to use to create the stripes with the embossed copyright
-sign in the center.</p>
+not easy to follow for an untrained inkscape user. The video is a
+recording on how he did it, and he is obviously very experienced as
+the menu selections are very quick and he mentioned on IRC that he did
+use some keyboard shortcuts that can't be seen on the video, but it
+give a good idea about the inkscape operations to use to create the
+stripes with the embossed copyright sign in the center.</p>
<p>I took his SVG file, copied the vector image and re-sized it to fit
on the cover I was drawing. I am happy with the end result, and the
-current draft look like this:</p>
+current english version look like this:</p>
-<img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.png" width="70%"/>
+<img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.png" width="70%" align="center"/>
<p>I am not quite sure about the text on the back, but guess it will
do. I picked three quotes from the official site for the book, and