From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 18:30:59 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: New blog post draft.
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+Title: Book cover for Free Culture book ready for printing
+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.
+
+<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
+version.  Not only did he create a
+<ahref="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
+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
+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.</p>
+
+<p>I took his SVG file, copied the vector image and resized it to fit
+on the cover I was drawing.  I am happy with the end result, and the
+current draft look like this:</p>
+
+<img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.png" width="70%"/>
+
+<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>
+
+<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>