Re: App for making invitation cards
Leandro Guimares Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: There is also Passepartout in the Gnome world, but it is not yet packaged for Debian. In a simpler note, you can create cards and the such with gLabels. I just tried to install passepartout on my sid box; it's in the archives, but currently broken; I'll wait another little while and try again. I just tried out gLabels; it's pretty impressive. I made some business cards using OO.o the other day; they turned out well, and I was able to do more things to them than gLabels seems to allow me to do. However, in the future, I'll probably try gLabels, because for simple cards, it seems to be way easier than using OO.o for such tasks. Thanks for the info. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [WTLUG:discuss] App for making invitation cards
Kent West wrote needting suggestions for tools to make party invitations. William Henley responded: snip HOWEVER, I have found a way around this with StarOffice, and I am sure you can do this in OpenOffice as well. If you want to do quarter fold inventations, do this: + inside card + + + upsidedown + + + text + + + + + + + front of + + + card+ This is probably what I'll do; thanks for the tip! -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [WTLUG:discuss] App for making invitation cards
Actually, I have had trouble doing this in Windows lately, the only software solution I know of off the top of my head is Printshop, and I have not seen that on the shelf for years. HOWEVER, I have found a way around this with StarOffice, and I am sure you can do this in OpenOffice as well. If you want to do quarter fold inventations, do this: + inside card + + + upsidedown + + + text + + + + + + + front of + + + card+ Okay, so my drawing is not to scale. :-) Just set up a little templemt. The other option is to just do text in the bottom right hand corner, and feed the paper through twice, once for the front, once for the inside. Annoying, but may be easier than trying to figure out how to flip your text upside down. If you want to make half fold cards, just do text on bottom of half of document page. You will have to run the paper through twice as that will require printing on both sides of the paper. You will need to play with your printer to figure out what orientation you need to load the paper to get the card to print out right. This is the easierst solution, and saves her from having to learn a new program. (That is, if she already knows word processing). William * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.12.06 11:57]: : I've had my mom running Debian for a couple of years, but she's just : doing the minimal stuff of email/web browsing, and is not computer literate. : : Now she wants to create party invitations. Any suggestions as to the : best direction to steer her? (Solving some of these issues would really : be easier in the Windows world, but I _really_ want to avoid going that : route. _Really_!) : : Thanks! : : -- : Kent -- Proof techniques #2: Proof by Oddity. SAMPLE: To prove that horses have an infinite number of legs. (1) Horses have an even number of legs. (2) They have two legs in back and fore legs in front. (3) This makes a total of six legs, which certainly is an odd number of legs for a horse. (4) But the only number that is both odd and even is infinity. (5) Therefore, horses must have an infinite number of legs. Topics is be covered in future issues include proof by: Intimidation Gesticulation (handwaving) Try it; it works Constipation (I was just sitting there and ...) Blatant assertion Changing all the 2's to n's Mutual consent Lack of a counterexample, and It stands to reason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: App for making invitation cards
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 11:57:46AM -0600, Kent West wrote: I've had my mom running Debian for a couple of years, but she's just doing the minimal stuff of email/web browsing, and is not computer literate. Now she wants to create party invitations. Any suggestions as to the best direction to steer her? (Solving some of these issues would really be easier in the Windows world, but I _really_ want to avoid going that route. _Really_!) I just discoverd Scribus. Desktop publishing for Linux. It is a great program. Similar to MS Publisher. Description: a free software desktop publishing program Scribus is a free software layout program for GNU/Linux similar to a couple of proprietary programs from Adobe and Quark. . Unlike other programs Scribus uses only Type1 fonts of the X-Server. Therefore there is no fiddling around with installing extra fonts. For this reason the number of fonts is a little bit limited, but you can be sure that your monitor shows exactly the same as the printed output is. . Documentation for this package is available in either French, German or English. Please choose your appropriate scribus-doc-XX documentation package. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: App for making invitation cards
Em Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:27:05 -0500, Andy Firman escreveu: I just discoverd Scribus. Desktop publishing for Linux. It is a great program. Similar to MS Publisher. There is also Passepartout in the Gnome world, but it is not yet packaged for Debian. In a simpler note, you can create cards and the such with gLabels. -- Leandro Guimares Faria Corsetti Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belo Horizonte, Londrina, So Paulo +55 (11) 5686 9607 http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra/ +55 (11) 5685 2219 Soli Deo Gloria!+55 (11) 9406 7191 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
App for making invitation cards
I've had my mom running Debian for a couple of years, but she's just doing the minimal stuff of email/web browsing, and is not computer literate. Now she wants to create party invitations. Any suggestions as to the best direction to steer her? (Solving some of these issues would really be easier in the Windows world, but I _really_ want to avoid going that route. _Really_!) Thanks! -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: App for making invitation cards
Have a look to LaTeX stuff: you may find you want. May be for more information, you should eamil to a LaTeX group. hth, Jerome Kent West wrote: I've had my mom running Debian for a couple of years, but she's just doing the minimal stuff of email/web browsing, and is not computer literate. Now she wants to create party invitations. Any suggestions as to the best direction to steer her? (Solving some of these issues would really be easier in the Windows world, but I _really_ want to avoid going that route. _Really_!) Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: App for making invitation cards
Kent West wrote: I've had my mom running Debian for a couple of years, but she's just doing the minimal stuff of email/web browsing, and is not computer literate. Now she wants to create party invitations. Any suggestions as to the best direction to steer her? (Solving some of these issues would really be easier in the Windows world, but I _really_ want to avoid going that route. _Really_!) OpenOffice.org, perhaps ? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
