How can I design a book cover with front cover, back cover, and spine?
Let's assume that I'm writing an A4 book. How can I design front cover, spine, and back cover of the book with ConTeXt? I've read many PDF files, but none that I can remember actually had book spine on it. Some had back cover. Most had front cover. Do printing houses make spine and back cover for authors so that back cover and spine don't need to be typeset by LaTeX or ConTeXt?
Hi, Amano
See: https://github.com/marcusviniciusmesquita/cob-cover
Regards
Marcus Vinicius
On Tue, Sep 6, 2022, 05:20 amano.kenji via ntg-context
Let's assume that I'm writing an A4 book.
How can I design front cover, spine, and back cover of the book with ConTeXt?
I've read many PDF files, but none that I can remember actually had book spine on it. Some had back cover. Most had front cover.
Do printing houses make spine and back cover for authors so that back cover and spine don't need to be typeset by LaTeX or ConTeXt?
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Am 06.09.22 um 10:20 schrieb amano.kenji via ntg-context:
Let's assume that I'm writing an A4 book.
How can I design front cover, spine, and back cover of the book with ConTeXt?
I've read many PDF files, but none that I can remember actually had book spine on it. Some had back cover. Most had front cover.
Do printing houses make spine and back cover for authors so that back cover and spine don't need to be typeset by LaTeX or ConTeXt?
No, they don’t, you must provide an extra PDF in the right size. Often, printshops provide a template. If I don’t have a design that goes over the spine, I use a cover.tex that imports front and back of my main PDF and just add the spine text. Everything placed on a layer. This way, my main PDF contains everything except the spine – makes sense for proofreading or digital distribution. Spine width depends mostly on page number and paper weight (thickness), but also on the binding technology used – ask your printshop. Hraban
Is it a good idea to design a book cover with front cover, back cover, and spine in ConTeXt? Or, is there a better software for designing book cover?
Do print shops just accept a book cover design as a PDF file which can be created by anything including ConTeXt?
Is it a good idea to set left margin and right margin differently for digitally distributed PDFs? Digital PDFs don't need different margins on the left and the right, but a digital PDF with different margins on the left and the right can be used in a physical book.
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On Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 at 9:50 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 06.09.22 um 10:20 schrieb amano.kenji via ntg-context:
Let's assume that I'm writing an A4 book.
How can I design front cover, spine, and back cover of the book with ConTeXt?
I've read many PDF files, but none that I can remember actually had book spine on it. Some had back cover. Most had front cover.
Do printing houses make spine and back cover for authors so that back cover and spine don't need to be typeset by LaTeX or ConTeXt?
No, they don’t, you must provide an extra PDF in the right size. Often, printshops provide a template.
If I don’t have a design that goes over the spine, I use a cover.tex that imports front and back of my main PDF and just add the spine text. Everything placed on a layer. This way, my main PDF contains everything except the spine – makes sense for proofreading or digital distribution.
Spine width depends mostly on page number and paper weight (thickness), but also on the binding technology used – ask your printshop.
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