Carusoswi writes: > Also, although I was meticulous in measuring for and laying out the template, > my cards did not line up with the pre-cut forms that we had purchased.
Martin already answered your questions about units, so I'll just address this part. I've done business cards and labels in gimp (http://shallowsky.com/software/gimplabels/) and they can line up if you get the distances right. You have to make sure you have an image that matches the size of your paper, and get the offsets right, of course. I've tried to do labels where I made the image size match up to the outer edges of the outer labels, then set the offsets in gutenprint, and it was frustrating and never worked right. I've only printed with gutenprint, where it's easy to see when you're printing a full page with zero margins on any corner. I couldn't get the same amount of control through gtkprint, though it's gotten a *lot* better in the last few releases and maybe it would work now. Another option, if you have trouble with gtkprint not lining up, is to print to postscript or PDF, preview it to make sure the page size and margins are what you expect, then print that from another app. Also, my inkjet printer (YMMV) varies quite a lot from page to page, so even if I create a perfect template at the perfect size, printed labels may not register exactly with the label sheet. So you need to make sure any text doesn't go all the way out to the edges of the label, and that any background is wide enough to spill over the edges quite a bit. Drawing a neat box just inside the edges is right out, unfortunately. Maybe some printers are better at that. > That is not to knock Gimp. I knew from the start that Gimping the project > was the long way around - but I wanted the experience. I feel I was almost That's exactly the right attitude. There are lots of apps designed for printing labels and business cards, but I like having the option of making them in GIMP because it gives me the option of printing at high quality and high resolution. I always keep in mind that this isn't really what gimp is for, so if I have to do a little extra fiddling compared to glabels, it's my choice. ...Akkana _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
