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[Craig]

Victor Papp wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I do business cards the following way:
> 1. I setup document size to 90 x 50 mm (stnadart business card size)
> 2. Make the card and print to Postscript file, say "1.ps"
> 3. Then using pstops postscript utility i impose the cards the way I need, like this:
> 
> pstops -w90mm -h50mm "12:0+0(1w,0)+0(2w,0)+0(0,1h)+0(1w,1h)+0(2w,1h)+0(0,2h)+0(1w,2h)+0(2w,2h)+0(0,3h)+0(1w,3h)+0(2w,3h)+" 1.ps 2.ps
> 
> This above imposes 12 business cards into one sheet of A4 Landscape paper.
> 
> Then I rotate the 12 cards 90° counterclockwise (to make tha page portrait) and center them on it:
> 
> pstops -w270mm -h200mm "1:0L(205mm,13mm)" 2.ps 3.ps
> 
> And finally I convert it to PDF using ghostscript
> 
> ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE#a4 -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress 3.ps cards.pdf
> 
> 
> I piut the commands above into a script file and have it in my home folder for reuse.
> 


Erm.. how incredibly complicated???

Just make it in Scribus, multiple duplicate and you are done, export to PDF.

Craig