From: Petter Reinholdtsen 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.
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