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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
Now, having said that, I wonder at the viability of such an endeavor. How would this work, for example?
How would this Forum be indexed for quick access?
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You can't make a cover without a book. Various folks have volunteered to take a shot at making covers. What we need are requests from folks producing books who need them. I don't see a point to making a cover "on spec" for a particular title, hoping someone might wish to use it.
If folks in the process of creating books for upload here would care to place requests in this forum, those who were inspired could produce covers.
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Personally, what I would like to see is a VERY simple program to position text onto a cover of my choosing.....a very simple program. After that, I would use "Insert" from BookDesigner.
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Define "very simple".
I'm not aware of a graphics editor specialized in putting type overlays on images. Those that do such things do it as one of a larger range of editing functions.
The free, open source Paint.NET program for Windows will let you overlay type on an image. Whether it's suitable depends on how much control you need. You can select from available fonts on your system, and choose size, weight, and attributes (like bold, italics, and underline. Type may be left or right justified or centered. You
don't get control over things like leading and kerning. For that sort of control, I pull a selected image into a full DTP program, but that's likely more than you want.
Paint.NET is here:
http://www.getpaint.net
It requires the Microsoft .NET 2.0 framework, which is free from MS.
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Dennis