On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:32:41 -0500 (GMT-05:00) "William F. Maddock" <billsey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> The barking, biting attitude that I saw earlier is one that I would > expect to find on the Moobunny forums, There is some history here. Gang Chen and Alice Chen have written a book with the title "Using FREE Scribus Software to Create Professional Presentations, Book Covers, Magazine Covers, Graphic Designs...(etc)" Almost all of the book is devoted to book covers, and all of the book covers look alike, the front panel consisting of a green bar with text, followed by a photo, followed by another green bar with more text. The Chen book is an earnest effort but Chen is a bit of a newbie in the field. For example describes how to import an ISBN bar code in jpg format. He apparently was not aware that is best practice to use a vector format for bar codes. He was also not aware it seems that Scribus has its own bar code generator so no import is needed. Chen is a very busy marketer, however. I applaud his diligence at marketing, but sending a linkedin invitation to the Scribus mailing list is either a foolish mistake or incredible arrogance. Now I wrote an e-booklet, a bit long in the tooth at this point, that competes with his much more expensive paperback. So I am certainly not an unbiased observer. I would feel more generous to Chen however if he had spent more time on this list and learned a bit more. He does remind me of those self publishers whose second (or first!) book is a book on self publishing. "Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." (Alexander Pope.) -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
