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A press article about cac 66 a collectif of writers

Céline VALETTE — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 14:00:03 +0000

A press article with a photo were published in a local newspaper about one of the professional meeting of cac 66 (an association of writers). I am on the back, 4th place from the left. The article relates a big part of the activities of that. You would know more in following this link : …

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Meeting around large print publishing

Céline VALETTE — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:43:07 +0000

The meeting around the edition in large print took place online on Thursday, March 28, 2024 on the website of Occitanie book and reading. It is part of the reading for all. This event brought together several professionals around a theme related to the accessibility of the book.

I participated in this meeting which seem interesting for the artists here is a little report on this subject. The interventions of several participants including a visual disability awareness association and a specialized publishing house.

One of the most important information for reading adapted books concerns the font used, its size and the fact that it is necessarily without serif. The text needs to be formatted (paragraph, leading, etc.) too. A font has been developed following several studies, firefly is available on this website.

Tips

Avoid fonts with serif, that is to say with wheelbase, for reasons of accessibility.

Prefer a suitable size for reading or that can be enlarged with a support tool.

Regarding formatting air paragraphs with interlines.

Following the conference, a font that can be downloaded and used free of charge was proposed by a speaker: link to the website of this font.

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Add metadata

Céline VALETTE — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:24:13 +0000

To wait from publishers is very long. Which has its advantages and disadvantages. Waiting feeds anxiety but it’s also a good time to communicate about your work, learn new skills and explore the different possibilities of your future book. For me, that’s what I’m doing right now.
During the creative process, I like to explore the arts. Playing music or/and drawing allows me to come back to my book.
This week I scanned drawings and learned how to embed metadata into the file. I thought sharing this tip with you might help you too.
Metadata allows you to add information to an image: the title of the image, the name of the author, the year, rights etc. which may be useful. If you want to do this, you will need to use photo manipulation software. For my part, I chose Gimp. To add metadata, open your drawing with the software, go to the image menu and click on add metadata. Save the file.

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