Custom printable greeting cards: Real Cards Win
October 15th, 2009 by Tom 3 Comments
I like making custom greeting cards for people. But I hate, hate, hate rotating the individual “pages” and lining them up correctly in programs like OpenOffice Draw.
Thus: Real Cards Win.
Draw your pages in the graphics program of your choice (heck, even Windows Paint will do), then select and upload them. Real Cards Win scales, rotates and positions them correctly and generates a ready-to-print, ready-to-fold PDF file in which everything lines up just so. Doesn’t get a whole lot simpler than that.
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October 19th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Nice idea on this one; but the links in the bottom paragraph are both wrong.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:20 am
Thanks, wingnutart.
I fixed the links.
May 20th, 2010 at 3:08 am
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