From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 19:04:37 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Generated. X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/19863f5edf4655322a02c88cadebb42418b63ad3?hp=d4d8529eebb91cf5da5c7f93cee3e2a5b70a60a5 Generated. --- diff --git a/blog/Book_cover_for_the_Free_Culture_book_finally_done.html b/blog/Book_cover_for_the_Free_Culture_book_finally_done.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..71cc4c0fd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/Book_cover_for_the_Free_Culture_book_finally_done.html @@ -0,0 +1,421 @@ + + + + + Petter Reinholdtsen: Book cover for the Free Culture book finally done + + + + + + +
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Book cover for the Free Culture book finally done
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3rd September 2015
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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 +Free +Culture book we are translating to Norwegian, and I wanted it in +vector format for high resolution printing. But my inkscape knowledge +were not nearly good enough to pull that off. + +

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 +version. Not only did he create a +SVG document with +the original and his vector version side by side, he even provided +an instruction +video explaining how he did it. But the instruction video is +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.

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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 english version look like this:

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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 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.

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The book is very close to being ready for publication, and I expect +to upload the final draft to Lulu in the next few days 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. I'm waiting to give the the productive +proof readers a chance to complete their work.

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