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Sample book, freshly bound at the Asquith Press
The Asquith Press is quite nifty, with its print-on-demand Espresso Book Machine. I’d like to work out ways to feed it quality input using only open source tools, as for now they only recommend MS Word and the pricey Adobe suite. There’s no reason that you couldn’t produce the required PDF/X files in LibreOffice or Inkscape.
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Photo taken at: Toronto Reference Library
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Self-similar petals
Original drawn in hand-coded PostScript from a path worked out using InkScape. Translating from InkScape’s SVG paths to PostScript is slightly annoying: PS uses Cartesian conventions, while SVG inverts the Y-axis. At least the SVG path commands map well to PostScript: m → moveto, c → curveto, Z → closepath, S → stroke.
There’s no magic to this figure. Each row of petals is half the length of the row outside it. As there are 6 petals arranged in a circle, each petal is 60° of arc. To make the half-step between rows, the petals are rotated 30°, so the rows have to be scaled by sin 30°, or ½.
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