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  10                 <title>Book cover for the Free Culture book finally done</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Thu, 3 Sep 2015 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Creating a good looking book cover proved harder than I expected.
  15 I wanted to create a cover looking similar to the original cover of
  16 the
  17 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;Free
  18 Culture&lt;/a&gt; book we are translating to Norwegian, and I wanted it in
  19 vector format for high resolution printing.  But my inkscape knowledge
  20 were not nearly good enough to pull that off.
  21
  22 &lt;p&gt;But thanks to the great inkscape community, I was able to wrap up
  23 the cover yesterday evening.  I asked on the
  24 &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/%23inkscape&quot;&gt;#inkscape IRC channel&lt;/a&gt;
  25 on Freenode for help and clues, and Marc Jeanmougin (Mc-) volunteered
  26 to try to recreate it based on the PDF of the cover from the HTML
  27 version.  Not only did he create a
  28 &lt;a href=&quot;https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/copy1.svg &quot;&gt;SVG document with
  29 the original and his vector version side by side&lt;/a&gt;, he even provided
  30 an &lt;a href=&quot;https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/out-1.ogv&quot;&gt;instruction
  31 video&lt;/a&gt; explaining how he did it&lt;/a&gt;.  But the instruction video is
  32 not easy to follow for an untrained inkscape user. The video is a
  33 recording on how he did it, and he is obviously very experienced as
  34 the menu selections are very quick and he mentioned on IRC that he did
  35 use some keyboard shortcuts that can&#39;t be seen on the video, but it
  36 give a good idea about the inkscape operations to use to create the
  37 stripes with the embossed copyright sign in the center.&lt;/p&gt;
  38
  39 &lt;p&gt;I took his SVG file, copied the vector image and re-sized it to fit
  40 on the cover I was drawing.  I am happy with the end result, and the
  41 current english version look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
  42
  43 &lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.png&quot; width=&quot;70%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;/&gt;
  44
  45 &lt;p&gt;I am not quite sure about the text on the back, but guess it will
  46 do.  I picked three quotes from the official site for the book, and
  47 hope it will work to trigger the interest of potential readers.  The
  48 Norwegian cover will look the same, but with the texts and bar code
  49 replaced with the Norwegian version.&lt;/p&gt;
  50
  51 &lt;p&gt;The book is very close to being ready for publication, and I expect
  52 to upload the final draft to Lulu in the next few days and order a
  53 final proof reading copy to verify that everything look like it should
  54 before allowing everyone to order their own copy of Free Culture, in
  55 English or Norwegian Bokmål.  I&#39;m waiting to give the the productive
  56 proof readers a chance to complete their work.&lt;/p&gt;
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