<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)">So. My very first project with Scribus. Complete noob.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Following the directions on <a href="https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_make_business_cards">https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_make_business_cards</a> I now have an SLA and a PDF double-sided "virtual sheet", with 10 business cards on it. There's a wide margin between the two columns but no margin between the five rows. BTW, I think there's a typo in the page: I think Step 12 wants a 4.0 inch horizontal shift, not a 3.5 inch one, since the 4.0 inch shift puts the second card squarely within the guides set up at the beginning.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)">So far, I'm not seeing anything I couldn't have done faster and more accurately in another application, especially since I was creating cards for multiple people. But, I'm willing to drink the Kool-Aid a bit longer, as the strength, as I understand it, is in the quality of the final product.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)">How do I now make the best use of the results, in order to get high quality printed cards? Are there vendors that take SLAs with card definitions that don't have any spacing between the vertical cards, and print and cut them nice and pretty? Or are these designed for me to go out and get special stock paper and cut or tear along the dotted-line? And, since one of the selling points of Scribus seems to be that it's better suited to producing nice color when printed -- or so I understand, should I be looking at particular vendors? Export the PDF with the Color Output intended for "Printer"? Increase the DPI to 1200?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Thanks.</div><div>-- </div><div class="gmail_signature"><div style="width:780px;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="width:388px;float:left"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(255,0,0);border-width:thin;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(0,0,255);border-collapse:collapse;padding:5px;text-align:center;font-weight:bold">Physical</div><div style="background-color:rgb(238,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);border-width:thin;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(0,0,255);border-collapse:collapse;padding:5px 15px;margin:auto auto 5px;height:95px"><div style="width:100px;height:100px;float:left;padding:0px 20px 0px 0px"><img src="http://research.gallaudet.edu/~kjcole/video/self/hackergachi-192.png" alt="[Photo: Kevin Cole]" style="width: 100px; height: 100px; float: left; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px;" height="100" width="100"></div><div><a href="http://launchpad.net/~kjcole/" style="color:rgb(0,0,187);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;font-size:x-large" target="_blank">Kevin Cole, RHCE</a></div><div>Team Contact</div><div><a href="http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/" style="color:rgb(0,0,187);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Ubuntu Linux DC "LoCo"</a></div><div>Washington, <abbr title="District of Columbia">DC</abbr> (<abbr title="UNITED STATES">US</abbr>)</div></div></div><div style="width:388px;float:left"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(255,0,0);border-width:thin;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(0,0,255);border-collapse:collapse;padding:5px;text-align:center;font-weight:bold">Virtual</div><div style="background-color:rgb(238,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);border-width:thin;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(0,0,255);border-collapse:collapse;padding:5px 15px;margin:auto auto 5px;height:95px"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody valign="top"><tr><td align="right">E-mail:</td><td style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0,0,255)">kjcole (at) ubuntu•com</td></tr><tr><td align="right">WWW:</td><td><a href="http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/" style="color:rgb(0,0,187);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">GPG Key ID:</td><td><a href="http://research.gallaudet.edu/~kjcole/pubkey.php" style="color:rgb(0,0,187);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">0x3E696927</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br></div></div></div><div style="clear:both;font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium"></div></div>
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