GIMP template and tutorial for designing business card

[satimis]

Hi folks,


I have been googling a while searching for Gimp template and tutorial to design business card without result, only Photoshop tutorial found.  Can any folk point me to the right direction.  TIA


B.R.
satimis

[Akkana Peck]

satimis writes:
> I have been googling a while searching for Gimp template and tutorial to
> design business card without result, only Photoshop tutorial found.  Can any
> folk point me to the right direction.  TIA

I've made business cards with GIMP: I wrote a script to generate an
image of the right aspect ratio, then another script to take one
such image and turn it into an image with the right aspect ratio
to be a US-Letter sized page to print with gutenprint. (It also
does various other types of labels, not just business cards.)
You might have to adjust the offsets a bit for your templates
and printer. Here are the scripts:

http://shallowsky.com/software/gimplabels/

To be honest, it's probably easier most of the time to use a program
that's designed for making labels and business cards, like gLabels;
or design one business card in gimp then import it into gLabels for
printing (or Open Office, even). Anyway, lots of options.

        ...Akkana
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[satimis]

satimis writes:
> I have been googling a while searching for Gimp template and tutorial to
> design business card without result, only Photoshop tutorial found.  Can any
> folk point me to the right direction.  TIA

I've made business cards with GIMP: I wrote a script to generate an
image of the right aspect ratio, then another script to take one
such image and turn it into an image with the right aspect ratio
to be a US-Letter sized page to print with gutenprint. (It also
does various other types of labels, not just business cards.)
You might have to adjust the offsets a bit for your templates
and printer. Here are the scripts:

http://shallowsky.com/software/gimplabels/

To be honest, it's probably easier most of the time to use a program
that's designed for making labels and business cards, like gLabels;
or design one business card in gimp then import it into gLabels for
printing (or Open Office, even). Anyway, lots of options.
[/quote]

Hi Akkana,


Thanks for your advice and script.


It is quite interesting. I can finish preparing and printing simple business cards on OOWriter. For professional cards with graphics, I'm now search a solution to edit it on different layers and merge them after finish. If I found a solution to the same then I can edit professional business cards on OOWriter.  Otherwise I have to do the work on GIMP or Inkscape and import the image on OOWriter for printing.


I did lot of graphics editing >10 years ago before turning to Server side, working on CorelDraw, Corel PhotoPaint, PhotoShop, Illustratior, etc.  Because I don't expect injecting too much time and effort on this simple task, I started searching around for a simple solution to finish the work with a few clicks.


B.R.
satimis

[Chris Mohler]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:25 PM, satimis <satimis@...> wrote:
[...]
>  It is quite interesting. I can finish preparing and printing simple business
>  cards on OOWriter. For professional cards with graphics, I'm now search a
>  solution to edit it on different layers and merge them after finish. If I
>  found a solution to the same then I can edit professional business cards on
>  OOWriter.  Otherwise I have to do the work on GIMP or Inkscape and import
>  the image on OOWriter for printing.

Another layout program out there is scribus - not sure if runs well on
windows though (they've been working on that for a while).

Chris
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[satimis]

Chris Mohler wrote:

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:25 PM, satimis <[e-mail]> wrote:
[...]
>  It is quite interesting. I can finish preparing and printing simple business
>  cards on OOWriter. For professional cards with graphics, I'm now search a
>  solution to edit it on different layers and merge them after finish. If I
>  found a solution to the same then I can edit professional business cards on
>  OOWriter.  Otherwise I have to do the work on GIMP or Inkscape and import
>  the image on OOWriter for printing.

Another layout program out there is scribus -

Hi Chris,


Thanks for your advice.


I suppose "scribus" is similar to PageMaker, FrameWork, Ventura, etc., a desktop publisher.  I went across it before but never use it.  I ran PageMaker while I lived in Windows world long time ago.


Actually the bar preventing me to edit professional business cards on OOoWriter is without layers there.  I can insert picture/image on its template as background making it x% transparent according to my requirement.  I can edit text on its top.  But I can't insert another picture/image on top.  Unless I treat it on OOoDraw.  In this way I prefer going back to GIMP to do the job.  I'm stuck there.

not sure if runs well on
windows though (they've been working on that for a while).

I'm running 100% Open Source packages here on Linux/Unix boxes.  I don't have Windows box.  To running Windows application I need "wine".  It is in a very rare case except IE, the buggy Internet browser.  Some Internet sites require visitors running IE.  It is rather funny.


B.R.
satimis

[Torsten Neuer]

Hi,

> >>  OOWriter.  Otherwise I have to do the work on GIMP or Inkscape and
> >> import the image on OOWriter for printing.
> >
> > Another layout program out there is scribus -
>
> I suppose "scribus" is similar to PageMaker, FrameWork, Ventura, etc., a
> desktop publisher.  I went across it before but never use it.  I ran
> PageMaker while I lived in Windows world long time ago.

If you've worked with PM back then, you'll probably have no problem with
scribus.

> Actually the bar preventing me to edit professional business cards on
> OOoWriter is without layers there.

There also is another bar, I suppose, when you have to have the cards printed
with offset printers.  Again, scribus is the solution.  OOo is nice for the
occasional home office cards though, that you can print on those pre-cut card
sheets - but that's not the professional way.

> > not sure if runs well on
> > windows though (they've been working on that for a while).

Scribus is multi-platform.  Should be no problem for you when you run Linux
(just make sure that you have properly working fonts as scribus can be quite
picky about incomplete font sets which sometimes are to be found in
free/shareware fonts).

> a very rare case except IE, the buggy Internet browser.  Some Internet
> sites require visitors running IE.  It is rather funny.

Not funny I'd say - but that'd lead off-topic ;-)


  Torsten


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