-Title: Book cover for Free Culture book ready for printing
+Title: Book cover for the Free Culture book finally done
Tags: english, docbook, freeculture
Date: 2015-09-03 20:40
<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 <ahref="">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.
+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.
<p>But thanks to the great inkscape community, I was able to wrap up
-the cover yesterday evening. I asked on the #inkscape IRC channel on
-Freenode for help and clues, and Marc Jeanmougin (Mc-) volunteered to
-try to recreate it based on the PDF of the cover from the HTML
+the cover yesterday evening. I asked on the
+<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23inkscape">#inkscape IRC channel</a>
+on Freenode for help and clues, and Marc Jeanmougin (Mc-) volunteered
+to try to recreate it based on the PDF of the cover from the HTML
version. Not only did he create a
-<ahref="https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/copy1.svg ">SVG document with
+<a href="https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/copy1.svg ">SVG document with
the original and his vector version side by side</a>, he even provided
-an <ahref="https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/out-1.ogv">instruction
+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
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 resized it to fit
+<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>
<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
-hope it will do to trigger the interest of potential readers.</p>
+hope it will work to trigger the interest of potential readers. The
+Norwegian cover will look the same, but with the texts and bar code
+replaced with the Norwegian version.</p>
<p>The book is very close to being ready for publication, and I expect
to upload the final draft to lulu and order a final proof reading copy
to verify that everything look like it should before allowing everyone
to order their own copy of Free Culture, in English or Norwegian
-Bokmål.</p>
-
-
-
-
-Last evening, I was</p>
+Bokmål. I'm just waiting for the productive proof readers to complete
+their work.</p>