From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 18:48:42 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Cleanup. X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/73d5f513cd62f319c2953adc15f4e01487a7cb81?ds=inline Cleanup. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.txt b/blog/data/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.txt index d1a2480ada..9766c7e006 100644 --- a/blog/data/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.txt +++ b/blog/data/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.txt @@ -1,22 +1,25 @@ -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

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. +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.

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 +#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 +SVG document with the original and his vector version side by side, he even provided -an instruction +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 @@ -25,7 +28,7 @@ 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 resized it to fit +

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:

@@ -33,15 +36,13 @@ current draft 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 -hope it will do to trigger the interest of potential readers.

+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.

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.

- - - - -Last evening, I was

+Bokmål. I'm just waiting for the productive proof readers to complete +their work.