Re: Business card template

2017-06-03 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann 



Am 03.06.2017 um 03:05 schrieb Joel Kulesza:
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Rich Shepard > wrote:


As time permits I'll look at the available LaTeX packages. I use
LaTeX/LyX
for almost all my writing and the modern CV and resume package
looks highly
professional and is impressive, so I assume business card
templates will
also be of this quality.


Rich,

Some additional considerations...

While I really like LaTeX / LyX for documentation, I'm reluctant to 
use it for things that require specific visual layout like business 
cards or posters.  With LyX's WYSIWYM philosophy and LaTeX's "focus on 
content, not layout" approach, this somewhat goes against the precise 
graphical design for such media.  Such documents are also either 
infrequent (in the case of business cards) or one-time (in the case of 
posters) editing tasks.  So having reproducible formatting may not be 
as important.  You might also find yourself tweaking esoteric LaTeX 
settings / ERT to get things just right, while a simple nudge in a 
graphical design tool would do.  However, for something "simple" like 
a business card, maybe doing everything in TikZ would work.


I don't mean to discourage, but just want to suggest that while LaTeX 
/ LyX might get to a satisfactory result, it may not be the right 
and/or most efficient toolset for the job.


- Joel

P.S. If you'd like to see how I setup a business card sheet in 
Inkscape, let me know and I'll forward along my .svg and .pdf files.

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4693/is-there-a-good-document-template-for-making-business-cards
Wolfgang

Re: Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread Joel Kulesza 
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Rich Shepard 
wrote:

> As time permits I'll look at the available LaTeX packages. I use LaTeX/LyX
> for almost all my writing and the modern CV and resume package looks highly
> professional and is impressive, so I assume business card templates will
> also be of this quality.
>

Rich,

Some additional considerations...

While I really like LaTeX / LyX for documentation, I'm reluctant to use it
for things that require specific visual layout like business cards or
posters.  With LyX's WYSIWYM philosophy and LaTeX's "focus on content, not
layout" approach, this somewhat goes against the precise graphical design
for such media.  Such documents are also either infrequent (in the case of
business cards) or one-time (in the case of posters) editing tasks.  So
having reproducible formatting may not be as important.  You might also
find yourself tweaking esoteric LaTeX settings / ERT to get things just
right, while a simple nudge in a graphical design tool would do.  However,
for something "simple" like a business card, maybe doing everything in TikZ
would work.

I don't mean to discourage, but just want to suggest that while LaTeX / LyX
might get to a satisfactory result, it may not be the right and/or most
efficient toolset for the job.

- Joel

P.S. If you'd like to see how I setup a business card sheet in Inkscape,
let me know and I'll forward along my .svg and .pdf files.

Re: Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread Rich Shepard 

On Sat, 3 Jun 2017, gordon cooper wrote:


  Like you I ran into problems with cards and labels in LO. Not yet found
an easy method in Lyx so am using a free source app 'glabels'. Bit of a
short learning curve but it provides for the standard commercially
available sizes.


Gordon,

  Thank you. I was pointed to glabels this morning. Built and installed
3.2.1 (because 3.4.0 needs newer libraries than I have on this workstation).
It does the job quite well. One strange thing is that the executable is
named 'glabels-3' which is not expected. No wonder I could not find glabels
when I looked for it.

  As time permits I'll look at the available LaTeX packages. I use LaTeX/LyX
for almost all my writing and the modern CV and resume package looks highly
professional and is impressive, so I assume business card templates will
also be of this quality.

Rich

Re: Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread gordon cooper 

Hello Rich,
  Like you I ran into problems with cards and labels in LO.
Not yet found an easy method in Lyx so am using a free source app
'glabels'. Bit of a short learning curve but it provides for the standard
commercially available sizes.

Had previously used a package Delphi but have completely abandoned
working in Windows®, looked at Lazarus - and am still looking at it very
slowly.

Regards,
Gordon.



On 03/06/17 01:23, Rich Shepard wrote:
  A web search tells me there are a few LaTeX templates for business 
cards.
If you have experience using any of these in LyX please share your 
thoughts

with me.

  In the past I've used the libreoffice business card template, but 
this last
time I ran into issues with font size, positioning of elements on the 
card,
and not being able to edit a cell. The only downloadable document for 
LO is

their 'starter guide' which is useless as a help (e.g., searching for
'business card' finds two references on how to find the 'print' button 
for

cards and nothing on how to edit or work with them.) Questions posted to
their mail list go unanswered. Color me disgusted because the lack of
documentation and responsiveness of the maillist is unlike any F/OSS
maillist to which I've subscribed over the past couple of decades.

  So, since I do most of my writing with LaTeX/LyX it's time to do the
business cards with them, too. I used to have them printed, but it seems
that now everyone keeps contact references digitally and not in a
Rolodex(TM) or shoe box, so printing cards here on stock equivalent to 
Avery

8376 (that's for the ivory paper) makes sense to me.

Comments encouraged,

Rich

Re: Business card template [RESOLVED]

2017-06-02 Thread Rich Shepard 

On Fri, 2 Jun 2017, David L. Johnson wrote:


I haven't used this for business cards, but I use glabels to print up
nametags, placecards, and the like. It is not TeX-based, but does well
with graphics, and has a database of standard card formats which in my
experience works well. It handles graphics, and elements of text can be
placed as needed. In fact, now that I think of it, I think I will make up
some business cards for myself using it.


David,

  Thank you for the pointer to glabels. There is a SlackBuilds.org package
for it so I'll use that and keep the idea of a LaTeX package on hold for
now.

Carpe weekend,

Rich

Re: Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread David L. Johnson 

On 06/02/2017 09:23 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
  A web search tells me there are a few LaTeX templates for business 
cards.
If you have experience using any of these in LyX please share your 
thoughts

with me.


I haven't used this for business cards, but I use glabels to print up 
nametags, placecards, and the like.  It is not TeX-based, but does well 
with graphics, and has a database of standard card formats which in my 
experience works well.  It handles graphics, and elements of text can be 
placed as needed.  In fact, now that I think of it, I think I will make 
up some business cards for myself using it.


--
David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University

Re: Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread Rich Shepard 

On Fri, 2 Jun 2017, Joel Kulesza wrote:


It's not LyX, but the approach I've taken and had good success with uses
Inkscape. I build one card with the various elements as layers, lock and
group them, then duplicate them to be the size of whatever sheet of cards
I'm printing to.


Joel,

  I haven't tried Inkscape (which I do have but never used) and I tried
Scribus, but all their templates are highly colored which I find to be
overkill for my business.

Thanks for your suggestion,

Rich

Re: Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread Joel Kulesza 
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Rich Shepard 
wrote:

> Comments encouraged,
>

It's not LyX, but the approach I've taken and had good success with uses
Inkscape.  I build one card with the various elements as layers, lock and
group them, then duplicate them to be the size of whatever sheet of cards
I'm printing to.

Business card template

2017-06-02 Thread Rich Shepard 

  A web search tells me there are a few LaTeX templates for business cards.
If you have experience using any of these in LyX please share your thoughts
with me.

  In the past I've used the libreoffice business card template, but this last
time I ran into issues with font size, positioning of elements on the card,
and not being able to edit a cell. The only downloadable document for LO is
their 'starter guide' which is useless as a help (e.g., searching for
'business card' finds two references on how to find the 'print' button for
cards and nothing on how to edit or work with them.) Questions posted to
their mail list go unanswered. Color me disgusted because the lack of
documentation and responsiveness of the maillist is unlike any F/OSS
maillist to which I've subscribed over the past couple of decades.

  So, since I do most of my writing with LaTeX/LyX it's time to do the
business cards with them, too. I used to have them printed, but it seems
that now everyone keeps contact references digitally and not in a
Rolodex(TM) or shoe box, so printing cards here on stock equivalent to Avery
8376 (that's for the ivory paper) makes sense to me.

Comments encouraged,

Rich

Re: Business Card Template?

2003-02-05 Thread Kathryn Andersen 
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:52:55PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
 Kathryn Andersen schrieb:
 Wow, I didn't know there were CD-cover styles, layouts!
 
 it is easier to print the cover with the
 artist and an optional (if present) picture
 in the fly:
 
 http://jvhemert.cjb.net/disc-cover/

Er, I wasn't interested in CD-covers myself, just business-cards.
Which, after further investigation, I think I will end up doing just as
a plain business-card-sized page (using Geometry), exported to
postscript, and then piped through labelnation to generate the
multiple-cards-per-page thing.

Either that, or use glabels.

Kathryn Andersen
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Re: Business Card Template?

2003-02-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller 
Kathryn Andersen wrote:
 Er, I wasn't interested in CD-covers myself, just business-cards.
 Which, after further investigation, I think I will end up doing just as
 a plain business-card-sized page (using Geometry), exported to
 postscript, and then piped through labelnation to generate the
 multiple-cards-per-page thing.

 Either that, or use glabels.

Have a look at bicard.sty
www.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/supported/bizcard/

You need almost only ERT, but the result is quite good.

Jürgen

Re: Business Card Template?

2003-02-05 Thread Kathryn Andersen 
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:52:55PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
 Kathryn Andersen schrieb:
 Wow, I didn't know there were CD-cover styles, layouts!
 
 it is easier to print the cover with the
 artist and an optional (if present) picture
 in the fly:
 
 http://jvhemert.cjb.net/disc-cover/

Er, I wasn't interested in CD-covers myself, just business-cards.
Which, after further investigation, I think I will end up doing just as
a plain business-card-sized page (using Geometry), exported to
postscript, and then piped through labelnation to generate the
multiple-cards-per-page thing.

Either that, or use glabels.

Kathryn Andersen
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Dr Bellfriar hasn't much to do, he should take up a hobby.
-- Tynus(Blake's 7: Killer [B7])
-- 
 _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen  [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.katspace.com
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Re: Business Card Template?

2003-02-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller 
Kathryn Andersen wrote:
 Er, I wasn't interested in CD-covers myself, just business-cards.
 Which, after further investigation, I think I will end up doing just as
 a plain business-card-sized page (using Geometry), exported to
 postscript, and then piped through labelnation to generate the
 multiple-cards-per-page thing.

 Either that, or use glabels.

Have a look at bicard.sty
www.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/supported/bizcard/

You need almost only ERT, but the result is quite good.

Jürgen

Re: Business Card Template?

2003-02-05 Thread Kathryn Andersen 
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:52:55PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Kathryn Andersen schrieb:
> >Wow, I didn't know there were CD-cover styles, layouts!
> 
> it is easier to print the cover with the
> artist and an optional (if present) picture
> in the fly:
> 
> http://jvhemert.cjb.net/disc-cover/

Er, I wasn't interested in CD-covers myself, just business-cards.
Which, after further investigation, I think I will end up doing just as
a plain business-card-sized page (using Geometry), exported to
postscript, and then piped through labelnation to generate the
multiple-cards-per-page thing.

Either that, or use glabels.

Kathryn Andersen
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
"Dr Bellfriar hasn't much to do, he should take up a hobby."
-- Tynus(Blake's 7: Killer [B7])
-- 
 _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
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Re: Business Card Template?

2003-02-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller 
Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> Er, I wasn't interested in CD-covers myself, just business-cards.
> Which, after further investigation, I think I will end up doing just as
> a plain business-card-sized page (using Geometry), exported to
> postscript, and then piped through labelnation to generate the
> multiple-cards-per-page thing.
>
> Either that, or use glabels.

Have a look at bicard.sty
www.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/supported/bizcard/

You need almost only ERT, but the result is quite good.

Jürgen

Business Card Template?

2003-02-04 Thread Kathryn Andersen 
Wow, I didn't know there were CD-cover styles, layouts!
So if they exist, I'll ask this question: does anyone know if there are
any Business-card classes and LyX layouts to go with them?  (And where
they are, naturally)

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Re: Business Card Template?

2003-02-04 Thread Herbert Voss 
Kathryn Andersen schrieb:

Wow, I didn't know there were CD-cover styles, layouts!


it is easier to print the cover with the
artist and an optional (if present) picture
in the fly:

http://jvhemert.cjb.net/disc-cover/

Herbert

Business Card Template?

2003-02-04 Thread Kathryn Andersen 
Wow, I didn't know there were CD-cover styles, layouts!
So if they exist, I'll ask this question: does anyone know if there are
any Business-card classes and LyX layouts to go with them?  (And where
they are, naturally)

-- 
 _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen  [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.katspace.com
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  v | 
| Melbourne - Victoria - Australia - Southern Hemisphere
Maranatha!  |   - Earth - Sol - Milky Way Galaxy - Universe

Re: Business Card Template?

2003-02-04 Thread Herbert Voss 
Kathryn Andersen schrieb:

Wow, I didn't know there were CD-cover styles, layouts!


it is easier to print the cover with the
artist and an optional (if present) picture
in the fly:

http://jvhemert.cjb.net/disc-cover/

Herbert

Business Card Template?

2003-02-04 Thread Kathryn Andersen 
Wow, I didn't know there were CD-cover styles, layouts!
So if they exist, I'll ask this question: does anyone know if there are
any Business-card classes and LyX layouts to go with them?  (And where
they are, naturally)

-- 
 _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
/  \| 
\_.--.*/| GenFicCrit mailing list 
  v | 
| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere
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Re: Business Card Template?

2003-02-04 Thread Herbert Voss 
Kathryn Andersen schrieb:

Wow, I didn't know there were CD-cover styles, layouts!


it is easier to print the cover with the
artist and an optional (if present) picture
in the fly:

http://jvhemert.cjb.net/disc-cover/

Herbert