{"id":1000137,"date":"2006-09-02T08:34:01","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T13:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/09\/02\/book-cover-design-software\/"},"modified":"2006-09-02T08:46:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T13:46:57","slug":"book-cover-design-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/09\/02\/book-cover-design-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Cover Design Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What software are people using for designing book covers these days? Right now I&#8217;m using Adobe Illustrator 9 for Mac OS 9, but that&#8217;s not going to last for very much longer, since I&#8217;ll probably upgrade my main system to an Intel Mac that won&#8217;t run Classic in the new year. Should I just upgrade to the latest version of Illustrator or should I look at something else?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done serious desktop publishing work for 15 years, so I don&#8217;t want to invest in expensive pro tools like Quark XPress or InDesign. Ideally, I&#8217;d like a simple open source program that uses SVG as its native format. I need to be able to export as PNG for eventual publication on paper. Any suggestions? What do people think of Sketsa or OpenOffice Draw? Are these good enough for simple uses like book covers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What software are people using for designing book covers these days? Right now I&#8217;m using Adobe Illustrator 9 for Mac OS 9, but that&#8217;s not going to last for very much longer, since I&#8217;ll probably upgrade my main system to an Intel Mac that won&#8217;t run Classic in the new year. Should I just upgrade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}