Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> Nathan England wrote:
>
>> I need a way to make business cards. I tried OOo and I'm not happy
>> with it's genericness. Anyone know of any business card programs? I'm
>> having trouble searching for them.
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>>
> You don't want a busness card program, you want a graphics arts program.
>
> You can layout a card in GIMP and save it as a hi-res TIF. There are
> printers on the Net (VistaPrint* comes to mind) that will print quality
> full color cards inexpensively.
>
> Saving as a TIF gets around font issues. Fonts on one platform never
> match another platform exactly. Using Scribus or Inkscape and exporting
> to a PDF should work too and will probably produce text better. Ask
> your printer to do a test to see if things work out to your liking.
>
> If you only need a small number of cards you can print them yourself.
> Print on a lustre inkjet photo paper for a higher quality look compared
> to the pre-perforated stock then cut with a good paper cutter.
>
> dennisk
> *VistaPrint will even give you free cards, if you pick a standard design
> that promotes there printing services on the back.
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My graphics people used inkscape and Scribus saved as a PDF and sent to
Vista worked great. warning some Vista services don't work with Firefox
yet (the business cards do). I have their assurance that they are in the
process of changing this. It's not really that big a deal though if you
call in they will give you a email address to send the image to, then
you can do everything off their website.
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