[scribus] Template for business cards

Gregory Pittman gregp_ky at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 17 20:53:30 CET 2010


On 11/17/2010 01:14 PM, Victor Papp wrote:
> Hi
>
> IMHO its a wrong approach to use multiple duplicates with business cards.
> I always set the page size to 9x5cm (with bleeds if needed).
> And I do compose the card in this paper size.
> Then, i print to postscript and do imposition using pstops and convert to
> pdf with ghostscript for printing.
> I tried the multiple duplicate once, but with complicated cards (several
> layers of bg images, etc) it leads to very big files with reduced
> performance. Also, as mentioned above you cannot use master pages and layers
> in this case - or you should multiple duplicate each layer separately.

and the difficulty with that is....?

I am not hearing a simple procedure from you as an alternative.

This can all be done inside of Scribus, unless you really want to use 3, 
4, or 5 separate programs.

Greg



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