From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:58:03 +0000 (+0200)
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+Title: In my hand, a pocket book edition of the Norwegian Free Culture book!
+Tags: english, docbook, freeculture
+Date: 2015-08-19 22:00
+
+<p>Today, finally, my first printed edition of the Norwegian version
+of Free Culture arrived in the mail.  I had to to fake some cover to
+get the interior printed, and the exterior of the book look awful.
+But that is irrelevant at this point.  I asked for a printed pocket
+book version to get an idea about the font sizes and paper format as
+well as how good the figures and images look in print.  After
+receiving the 500 page pocket book, it became obvious to me that that
+pocket page size is too small for this book.  I believe the book is
+too thick, and several tables and figures do not look good in the size
+they get with that small page sizes.  I'll go with the 5.5x8.5 inch
+size instead.  A surprise discovery from the paper version was how bad
+the URLs look in print.  They are very hard to read in the colophon
+page.  The URLs are red in the PDF, but light gray on paper.  I need
+to change the color of links somehow to look better.  But there is a
+printed book in my hand, and it feels great. :)</p>
+
+<p>Now I only need to fix the cover, wrap up the postscript with the
+store behind the book, and collect the last corrections from the proof
+readers before the book is ready for proper printing.  Cover artists
+willing to work for free and create a Creative Commons licensed vector
+file looking similar to the original is most welcome, as my skills as
+a graphics designer are mostly missing.</p>