Sorry for two posts. One thing worth mentioning - if we go with adding text to the graphics background in LibreOffice instead of the graphics editor the advantage for the PDF release is that the cover text is available to screen readers - it is not when the text is buried in the graphics background, and the ability to add non-distorted text on the printer ready cover.
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 3:50 PM Drew Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Howdy Jean, > > Excellent. > > So with that in mind I took a second pass on the covers, with the Base > Guide pages for an example. > For this pass I left the A4 front cover page unchanged. > For the A4 back cover page I stripped all the text out of the SVG > file, flipped the logo and wave graphic at the footer to form a mirror > image layout of the front cover. > This makes the two logos form what looks a bit like a label spanning the > spine. > Added a shaded background graphic to the middle portion of the spine, > and a solid color block to carry the wave at the footer across the > spine. > So the graphics background is scaled to fit the new page size. In the > ODG file added the text back to the back cover and adjusted font size > and line spacing so all the text fits without encroaching into the > ISBN block. > Here is how that came out (just a rough draft) > https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/Jrjnq4eeSFPo3zW > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:05 PM Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have put in NextCloud (Contributor Resources > Cover7 folder) a > > template (ODG) for 6x9-inch books printed at Lulu. Link below. This > > template shows the bleed and trim areas for the covers. (The width of > > the spine varies, of course, with the number of pages in the book.) > > > > Ideally, in addition to producing covers for the PDF version of the > > books, someone would produce front and back covers set to the correct > > size for the print edition, with the correct proportions and the extra > > margin for bleed and trim. I (or whoever) can then drop those into the > > wrap-cover template and add the book name on the spine. I've been > > doing this in a sloppy manner (by distorting the A4 cover) for 15 > > years, and will continue to do so if necessary. > > > > https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/HTtTreGR4XN8Y4d > > > > Jean > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > > Problems? > > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
