This is a fair assessment.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 18:19, john Culleton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@wexfordpress.com">john@wexfordpress.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:32:41 -0500 (GMT-05:00)<br>
"William F. Maddock" <<a href="mailto:billsey@earthlink.net">billsey@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The barking, biting attitude that I saw earlier is one that I would<br>
> expect to find on the Moobunny forums,<br>
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There is some history here. Gang Chen and Alice Chen have written a<br>
book with the title "Using FREE Scribus Software to Create Professional<br>
Presentations, Book Covers, Magazine Covers, Graphic Designs...(etc)"<br>
Almost all of the book is devoted to book covers, and all of the book<br>
covers look alike, the front panel consisting of a green bar with text,<br>
followed by a photo, followed by another green bar with more text. The<br>
Chen book is an earnest effort but Chen is a bit of a newbie in the<br>
field. For example describes how to import an ISBN bar code in jpg<br>
format. He apparently was not aware that is best practice to use a<br>
vector format for bar codes. He was also not aware it seems that<br>
Scribus has its own bar code generator so no import is needed.<br>
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Chen is a very busy marketer, however. I applaud his diligence at<br>
marketing, but sending a linkedin invitation to the Scribus mailing<br>
list is either a foolish mistake or incredible arrogance.<br>
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Now I wrote an e-booklet, a bit long in the tooth at this point, that<br>
competes with his much more expensive paperback. So I am certainly not<br>
an unbiased observer. I would feel more generous to Chen however if he<br>
had spent more time on this list and learned a bit more. He does remind<br>
me of those self publishers whose second (or first!) book is a book<br>
on self publishing.<br>
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"Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;<br>
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."<br>
(Alexander Pope.)<br>
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--<br>
John Culleton<br>
Wexford Press<br>
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"<br>
<a href="http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html" target="_blank">http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html</a><br>
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