CDCOVER - CD COVER CREATOR Creating Data-CD Covers AUTHOR : Ulli Meybohm , www.meybohm.de LICENSE: GNU General Public License (read the file "COPYING") Copyright notice: The program uses the tex-template of the GPL'd program "disc-cover" (C) Jano van Hemert, which is a great program to create covers for audio-cds. It can be found at http://www.liacs.nl/~jvhemert/disc-cover MANUAL CDCOVER is a little commandline tool which creates user-defined data-cd covers. After installing the program, open a shell and enter "cdcover". The program gives you a overview of the supported parameters. Should be easy to use. PARAMETERS I will explain the parameters with the following example: I want to create covers for my SuSE Linux Distribution, which consists of 6 CDs. -c, --count Sets the number of cds. The default is "1". Example: -c 6 -t, --title Sets the title which appears on the top of the frontcover and on the left of each sidetext Example: -t "SuSE Linux 6.3" -s, --subtitle <SUBTITLE> Sets the subtitle which appears below the title on the frontcover and on the right of each sidetext. Remember that you can use the variables %i (number of the current cd-rom) and %n (total number of cd-roms) in every string constant (title, subtitle etc...). They will automatically be replaced by the program. Now back to the example. I wanted to create 6 cover for my Linux Distribution CDs. I think it would be good to use the subtitle for the enumberation ( Disc 1/6, Disc 2/6, ... Disc 6/6 ). Example: -s "Disc %i/%n" -b, --backcovertext <BACKCOVERTEXT> Sets the text, which should appear on the back of the cover. This text can contain linebreaks. Example 1 : -b "SuSE Linux Distribution Version 6.3" Example 2 : -b "`ls -1 /cdrom/*.tgz` Example 3 : -b "`cat`" -o, --outputfile <FILENAME> Finally you have got to specify the file were the latex output will be stored. The file should have the extension ".tex". If you don't specify an output file, the output will be written on the standard output. Example: -o suse.tex -l, --sidetext-left <SIDETEXT-LEFT> This is an optional parameter. Usually the title will be printed on the left side of each sidetext. If you want an other text than the title use this parameter. -r, --sidetext-right <SIDETEXT-RIGHT> This is also an optional parameter. Usually the subtitle will be printed on the right side of each sidetext. If you want an other text than the subtitle use this parameter. PRINTING Now you have the latex file. For example "suse.tex". To print or view this text you have to convert the file to PostScript. Enter the following commands: latex suse.tex If everything works correct you should find the file suse.dvi in the current directory. You have to convert this dvi-file to PostScript by entering: dvips suse.dvi -o suse.ps Now you finally have the postscript-file "suse.ps". You can now view this file with any postscript viewer. For example: gv suse.ps ghostview suse.ps kghostview suse.ps You can print the file with the lpr command: lpr suse.ps