Finishing Up The eBook Version of "The Jaybird..."

I’m close to wrapping up this children's book. I published the print version on Jan 1, and tomorrow, Jan 8, 2020, I’ll publish the eBook, if all goes well. I did run into the outer limits of my InDesign knowledge today. All of my text disappeared when I exported the book to the EPUB3 format. I eventually remembered that I had created a default paragraph that applied a white stroke to all text. I was a novice; I didn’t know what the karma would be. Looking back, I see that I did everything the hard way in those days. And, naturally, my early mistakes came home to roost today. Live and learn.

Once I solved the disappearing text problem, I managed to update all of the text and images to sync with the print version. Tomorrow I’ll proof read everything and then validate the eBook to make sure it meets Ingramspark’s standards.

Here’s today sketch.

Pontresina, 1835, by Herbert Matter

Vuescan Scanner Software - I Broke Down and Bought It

I’ve been dithering about buying Vuescan since I bought my Plustek A3 scanner. The software that came with the scanner is crap. I won’t go into how bad it is, except to say that the images that come out of it invariably need to be rescued in Photoshop. Shame on Plustek, but hooray for Vuescan. The scans I made tonight were acceptable right out of the scanner. I’m looking forward to profiling the scanner with an IT 8 Scanner Color Calibration Target from http://target.coloraid.de.

In other news, I’ve decided that real artists draw. My lovely new sketchbooks inspire me to post my daily sketches. One of the great things about having a blog is that I can use it to keep track of my sketches by date.

Another Donkey