Hi Albert! Sorry for the awfully late reply.
On 23/05/2011 01:00, Albert Dengg wrote:
the idea of having a service for fellows, that produces print-ready business cards in a fellowship design as a pdf.
This is a very good idea, thanks for coming up with it.
- my current implementation does no like multi-lined text elements, therefor for multi line fields like address, there have to be seperate text elements for each line
This is a question to ask Reinhard, how it is stored in the Fellowship database. However it stored, it should not be much of a problem though.
- my current plan woud be to include the data represented on the card in machine readable form (qr code) on the backside, so if suitable from the design point of view, would it be possible to include a square with a edge length of 2.5 to 3 centimeters there? (it may mark me as a techno freak, but i have seen people, escpecially secreteries waste a lot of time copieng the data by hand and smartphones and webcams with correspondig software are quite common nowadays, so it struck me as usefull)
It kind of is, yes. FSFE secretaries, also known as president-assist, often have to do such a work. :p More seriously, what other data would be on the back of the card? If the back is not too crowded, I would think putting a QR code there is no problem.
*) for the placement on the pages i also use svg templates with rect elements as placeholders (currently i have them with 1 card centered for sending to printing shops, an n-uped to a4 and a3 for home/office printers. however i have a small problem: when n-upping 8 cards onto a a4 page, the standard inksacpe feature produces marks that are to big (overlap into the neighboring card), does anybody now of a way to produce good crop/bleed marks in the needed size without drawing them by hand?
I don't, unfortunately. Have you got other ideas in the mean time? It depends on the service you're asking to though. For FSFE business cards, we just have to send a single pdf file… They do the n-upping/printing themselves.
*) to produce pdf's usable for pre-press, i currently pdf's with version 1.3 and cmyk colors in the final step that should, theoretically be in conformance with the pdf/x3 standard, does anybody by coinsitance now a free (as in freedom) tool to verify if that is really true?
Neither :/ I'm not sure why or who needs this conformance check?
ps: i hope my design aux pas is not to offending for somebody tho actually has knowledge reagrding design
Not at all, it's a good start! I think that "Fellowship" or "Fellowship of the FSFE" or something like that should appear on the card. Or do you think if suffices if "position" contains the information about being a fellow already?
What else do you need to be able to go on with this great proposal? I'm very much willing to help, I've played around with inkscape and its command line a bit already, and would not mind going on. ;)
Thanks, Nico