Published by deborah.woehr on 28 Oct 2007 at 08:47 am
An InDesign Script for Book Cover Designers
I was surfing the web yesterday for anything on designing books with InDesign and discovered this script by Dan Rodney, called Make Book Jacket 2.0. It comes with three measurements: picas, inches, and metric. Using the dialog box (see screenshot above), you can preset your book cover’s measurements, plus indicate whether your cover is going to be a hardcover, soft cover, or booklet.
I tried this script with a book cover I had already made. There is some slight distortion, but otherwise it looks good. I’ve yet to test this with Lulu, but I know the cover will export into a PDF. I’ll let you know. If it does, I will consider this script a godsend because it will shave off the time it would take to measure everything precisely.
