Certainly seems to be more than one way to 'defur a feline'. Thanks!
I like the idea of using a script. What's your OS/Scripting language? I'm running Vista and I'm thinking of using PowerShell. On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Victor Papp <victor at vpapp.com> 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.pscards.pdf > > > I piut the commands above into a script file and have it in my home folder > for reuse. > > HTH > > Victor. > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:16:38 -0400 > From: Bill Lawry <inov8tn at gmail.com> > Subject: [scribus] Business Cards from Scribus? > To: scribus at lists.scribus.info > Message-ID: > <715b3dd70909190016t2552d820v2a587740505a17c4 at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I have MS publisher on another (older) PC that's not mine. But it's what I > had when I developed a business card (attached) > > So far Openoffice has satisfied my needs and allowed me to avoid MS Office > on this PC but this task has me stumped. > > I like Scribus' ability to outline letters so I'll re-do the card (no need > to convert it) in Scribus. > > Soooo... How do I develop a business card in Scribus and print it 10-up on > Avery Form # 8879? > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090920/79e3416c/attachment.htm>
