From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 18:55:09 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Minor cleanup. X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/4add1028b482d78d4a59a81512d15e32a6a73e63?ds=sidebyside Minor cleanup. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.txt b/blog/data/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.txt index 9766c7e006..384abf163d 100644 --- a/blog/data/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.txt +++ b/blog/data/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.txt @@ -1,15 +1,14 @@ 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

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 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.

But thanks to the great inkscape community, I was able to wrap up the cover yesterday evening. I asked on the @@ -21,18 +20,18 @@ version. Not only did he create a 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. 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.

+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.

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:

+current english version look like this:

- +

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