i know there are many questions on how to create a book cover, but my questions seems to be a bit different.
I create a frontpage, a backpage and the spine for my cover
Frontpage:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{
a5paper
}
\usepackage{blindtext}
%
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
{\Large Front}
\vspace*{4cm}
\blindtext
\end{document}
Backpage:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{
a5paper
}
\usepackage{blindtext}
%
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
{\Large Back}
\vspace*{4cm}
\blindtext
\end{document}
Spine:
\documentclass[border=0pt]{standalone}
%
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.9}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}
%
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[rotate=90] (a1) at (0,0){Lorem ipsum};
\node[rotate=90] (a1) at (-0.2,10){Etiam lobortis facilisis sem.};
\node[rotate=90] (a1) at (0.2,10){Nullam nec mi et neque pharetra sollicitudin.};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
And putting all together in the cover:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{papersize={307mm,210mm}}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdfmerge[nup=3x1]{back,spine,front}
\end{document}
The front and back pages are Din A5, so the cover has the papersice Din A4, which is 297 mm x 210, so i added 10 mm for the spine, which results in 307 mm.
Unfortunately there is to much whitespace added, i played around with some options of includepdfmerge, but i didn't get it work.
Can you help me?
Thanks in advance!