Bug 480133

Try the overnightprints template (originally named for use with overnightprints.com). It has a 1/16" margin, which I think is more than you need.

Run the program with "-t overnightprints" to get this template.

Close this if that's fine for you, otherwise make a comment otherwise.

I've seen the one for overnightprints after I reported this. But actually, it's not enough to have 'more than I need'. Normally, the bleed needs to be exactly the right size or something terrible could happen during printing or cutting - if the printing company allows the wrong sized input at all.

The other problem here (I didn't think about that until after reporting this, too) is: you can't tell the tool what final size the card should have. That's when I noticed the templates.

With templates, it should be easy to create business cards for my need. Unfortunately, I didn't find any instructions on this. Additionally, when I tried to make new svg templates I was then missing those invisible text boxes. I figure that's because I used inkscape and the other templates are created with Adobe Illustrator :/ I tried to copy-paste that svg code but never got it working.

These were created with Inkscape; what happened though was I started with content filled in for the blank fields, then created the new template as necessary.

I do want to refactor the templates system into a "insert size and margins here and it'll just work" system. It'll take me a little while to get that working though.

Hello.

I made a patch which adds two other arguments: -x and -y for width and height. The problem described here could be solved by using these arguments. This way, one can even create 90x50 cards suitable for Central Europe(our Romanian community will need these for an upcoming event).

You can now do: fedora-bussiness-cards -x 90mm -y 50mm. Many other units can be used, any that can fit into the xml schema (ex. in, cm, px etc.).

I'll attach the patch and you can find the modified templates here: http://mapleoin.fedorapeople.org/business/

Created attachment 341161 [details]
patch for dimensions

Hey Ionuț,

Thanks so much! Are you able to use git? If so, please clone my repository, apply your patches, and push your version of the repository to your Fedora People space (instructions at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/fedorapeople.org#BETA_git_hosting_support), and let me know that you've pushed it. It would make it a lot easier for me to test and add to the repository since I'm really crammed for time currently.

You're awesome!

I was looking for the location of the VCS before, but fedorapeople's git didn't cross my mind. Anyway, I added some info to the wiki page (basically what you just told me) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Business_cards#Frequently_Questioned_Answers .

So you can now clone from my fedora-business-cards repo!

I would like to ask you to test my changes before building another package or such. I tested them, but I'm not too sure.

Thanks!
You're pretty awesome yourself!

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I'll be looking at this sometime today, finally.

Or today. :(

Hey Ionuț,

I took a look at your patch and made a couple of changes in the new 'onetemplate' branch on my repo -- basically, just coding standards stuff. You can pull that by doing IAN FILL THIS IN BEFORE YOU HIT COMMIT

However, it doesn't really work as I expected it to. Running `fedora-business-cards -x "4 in" -y "2 in"' returns images that are 13x7 pixels, and `fedora-business-cards -x 360 -y 180' (the earlier measurements converted to pixels at 90dpi, Inkscape's native default) and it just adds half an inch to the blue bar, which isn't exactly what we're looking for here. (I don't know if it worked before and it just hates Inkscape .47 or what.)

Let me know if you have any questions about my wishes for this. :)

(In reply to comment #11)
> can pull that by doing IAN FILL THIS IN BEFORE YOU HIT COMMIT
> 
I suck at life. I didn't even have my branch pushed yet. :)

In your fedora-business-cards/ repository:
  git pull git://fedorapeople.org/home/fedora/ianweller/public_git/fedora-business-cards.git onetemplate

:)

Hi Ian!

I'm at FUDCon right now so that's why I took a while to answer.

For the first thing: you just have to use -x "4in" -y "2in" no spaces. That's how inkscape talks. It probably got converted to pixels at 300dpi when you inputed the spaces.

For the second thing: you're right, the blue bar (actually the whole canvas and the blue background) just gets bigger or smaller depending on the width . For my limited use which is -x "90mm" -y "50mm" that works perfectly, since the aspect ratio of Central Europe-style business cards isn't that different from the US (1.8 vs 1.75). So everything should also work when preserving the ratio (like when you add a printing margin).

The only way I can think to avoid that is by getting a converter that can understand all the different measurement units that inkscape knows about (eg in, cm, mm, px, pt, etc.). Or just remove that functionality and use only pixels or something. But that's sort of your decision.

(In reply to comment #13)
> I'm at FUDCon right now so that's why I took a while to answer.
> 
Hope you're enjoying yourself :)

> For the first thing: you just have to use -x "4in" -y "2in" no spaces. That's
> how inkscape talks. It probably got converted to pixels at 300dpi when you
> inputed the spaces.
> 
oh, whoops :P


> For the second thing: you're right, the blue bar (actually the whole canvas and
> the blue background) just gets bigger or smaller depending on the width . For
> my limited use which is -x "90mm" -y "50mm" that works perfectly, since the
> aspect ratio of Central Europe-style business cards isn't that different from
> the US (1.8 vs 1.75). So everything should also work when preserving the ratio
> (like when you add a printing margin).
> 
> The only way I can think to avoid that is by getting a converter that can
> understand all the different measurement units that inkscape knows about (eg
> in, cm, mm, px, pt, etc.). Or just remove that functionality and use only
> pixels or something. But that's sort of your decision.  

I need to give this some serious thought. I'll come up with something and post it here shortly. Are you willing to hack at this? If you are, that's completely and utterly awesome. :)

> Are you willing to hack at this?

I can't promise anything as I've a lot of work to do for GSOC/pkgdb right now so don't count on me. But if I get hit by a revolutionary idea, I'll send a patch ;)

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Going to work on this for "0.3". The card SVG will be generated on the fly, depending on the size and margins the user would like to use. (Description of this bug has been edited to reflect this.)

Changing back to ASSIGNED (still assigned to me). ETA within the next 1.5 months.

This is in git. Waiting to get some other things done before a release.

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