Pepper&Carrot Book

(Archived until mid 2020)

This repository was created to host the desktop-publishing source and tooling to publish the open-source first book of Pepper&Carrot comic.

Table of Contents

• Initial Setup
• Usage
• Current Limitations
• Changelog
• License

Initial Setup

Note: If you want to use a language other than English (en), please initialise a new translation by executing bash initLang.bash fr (where fr is the new language you want using the short code form) before downloading the comic pages.

You will need to download or install the following to design, build, and publish Pepper&Carrot:

• A font pack Download and install the official Pepper&Carrot open fonts from here.
• Scribus 1.5.4 or later Download Scribus for editing book layouts (*.sla files).
  • On 'buntu 16.04 please use this PPA.
  • On Debian please download the official development AppImage, make the file executable, and run it.
• Krita 3 or later Download the latest AppImage for editing graphics (*.kra files).
• The comic pages :
  • You can download them from here, and then extract them into the pages folder.
  • Or you can execute bash ./getPages.bash en (where en is the language using the short code form) to download and update them.

Usage

• / Contains scripts and this README.
• /img Contains original graphics made for the book. Krita files, or PNG files.
• /lang/xx/ Contains the different translations
  • / Contains Scribus *.sla files
  • /pages Contains the comic page sources (not delivered via git, see Install).

Changelog

• 2019-10-01: Archiving the project (to better start on another repo: book-print )
• 2017-11-06: Re-structure to allow translations in multiple languages.
• 2017-06-09: Prefinal: All header, footer, gallery, colophon, frontpage, shrink from 80 pages to 68 pages, no need 'Inside' anymore.
• 2017-06-08: Split gfx and text: more flexibility for cleaning pages footer and adding headers.
• 2017-03-23: Better cover, add fonts. screenshot
• 2016-09-05: Initial squeletton. screenshot

License

Based on the webcomic Pepper&Carrot by David Revoy, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Based on the universe of Hereva created by David Revoy with contributions by Craig Maloney. Corrections by Willem Sonke, Moini, Hali, CGand and Alex Gryson.

Authors of all modifications, corrections or contributions to this project accepts to release their work under the license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).