Linux Squared – Gimp – E-Book Design

Man, ……… I’ve had a couple of weeks of hectic “Extreme Blogging“. So extreme in fact that I’ve had to skip a week, while I got it together enough to be able to post. It all started with my trying to update an E-Book template that I had found on the web, when I first started out Blogging. No matter how I tried, I was confronted with the fact that I was going to have to re-design the whole thing. I sure didn’t have time to do this, but throwing caution to the wind, I jumped in and Googled until the cows wouldn’t come home.
Nothing!

Now, I was confronted with having to come up with my own design code. I’ve seen some tricky code before, but this takes the cake! I spent 40 hours trying to hammer out the details over three days, seriously backing me up on my Blogs. When finished I got ready to use the code for a post over here at Blogging Extreme only to be over-ruled by the editor stating that I had spent so much time refining the thing, that I should now place it on the Blog as an E-Book. Man, ……… I’m wasn’t even ready to do that! 20 hours later, here I am. READY; SET; DOWNLOAD!

You can now download from the homepage, the price is $9.95. I’ve run several tests on the coded instructions and they work fine. It does assume that you have some basic experience with GIMP. Once you play around with the coded instructions for a couple of hours, you will see how it easy it is to do whatever you want it to do. I’ve really just laid the ground work, with some improvisation, you should do just fine.  You can really design any type of E-Book with any type of back ground; any size you want.

As for now, the manual does not cover how to design round CD’s or multiple books in one image.  As I have the time, I will update the manual to include these types of images. If you have an hints or tips on the subject, be sure to leave your comments below.  And yes, I did do the image you see on the homepage with these same instructions in the manual. Pretty cool, huh!