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What is Business Card Composer? What does it do?
Business Card Composer is the tool for business card creation and printing. It's the fastest way to get high quality and
professional looking business card. It's made up of professionally created card designs and a great number of images. Each
design can be customized in many ways.
Business Card Composer is a do-it-yourself program. You can sit for a few minutes and just create your new card, or sit
for a few hours and play with all of the different ways you can turn one of ready designs into a professional-looking business
card.
On what Macs does Business Card Composer work?
It will run on Mac OS X v.10.3.9 and higher.
What should I think of before getting started with Business Card Composer?
- Review how you'd like to introduce your business
- Think of words which you use to describe your business
- Choose images which match your business
- Remember: you shouldn't overdo it. Do not use unreadable fonts, spotty
images and incompatible colors.
- Remember: A business card is there to represent your company.
What if I don't have any of my own images?
Don't worry. Business Card Composer contains over 23.000 high-quality images sorted into categories. Among them there are
vector images scalable to any size, photo objects with transparent background, which can be applied to any picture to
create mixed designs. You'll surely find something to your taste. The download edition contains a limited number of
graphics — about 700 clipart images.
How to start and create cards
Where Can I Find the Registration Code?
Owners of the download version of the program are getting the registration (license) code in the purchase confirmation e-mail.
Owners of the boxed version receive the code inside the product package. The code is printed on the back side of CD's envelope.
The license code you gave me isn't being accepted by my program. How can I register it?
Please carefully Copy&Paste your license code into the License dialog. Or, if you have boxed edition, enter it manually —
be attentive: don't use 'O' character, type only 0 (zero) digit in the license code. Please pay attention that there is also no
capital letter 'I', but only 1 (one) digit in the license code.
How can I make vertical business cards? Can I change horizontal cards into vertical ones?
We advise you to use Assistant (vertical card designs are displayed in Plain Text category, and also in some
other categories — you'll see them in Preview). If you wish to turn a horizontaldesign into a vertical, use
Orientation option of the CardProperties dialog (menu
File / Card Properties). Then move all fields and images manually.
My logo is an .eps file. How can I add it tomy card?
If you use Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, you can simply drag-and-drop the logo file into Business Card Composer. Jaguar users can do
the following: Save your logo as PDF from the application, used for its creation (or other graphical package). Then in Business
Card Composer, choose the File->Place Image command to insert this PDF image into
the card. The quality will not be lost.
Can I add my own artwork to the images supplied in the application?
Yes. Select "Custom Folder" in the collection switch. Navigate to the folder you wish and its contents will be displayed
in the left part of the document window, same as a built-in clipart collection.
Can I use the design of my card for other cards I make?
Sure. Simply drag and drop the needed person from Apple Address Book into your card. All data will be substituted. If the needed
person isn't stored in your Address Book, store his data there —they can be used in other applications.
Can I use text symbols as clipart?
You have discovered a new source of good-looking cliparts! You can use symbols from the Mac OS X symbol fonts. In the Font Panel
select Show Characters from the pop-up menu. You'll get Character Palette window. Drag&Drop symbols to your card. Or toggle
on the text editing mode and double-click on the symbol. You can easily resize, color and add shadow to this image.
How can I make all objects the same color as that one?
It's easy! Select the required object. Its color buttons in the Properties window will get its color. Drag&Drop the color
with the mouse to assign it to other objects.
Printing cards
When I print cards with background images, there's a slight imprecision in print. What should I do?
To print fully covered business cards, use the paper with spacing between cards. The card is automatically stretched for extra
1 mm. Slight imperfection in positioning is covered by this extra space. More about business card paper.
Can I print my cards in the print shop?
Sure. You can have your business cards printed and delivered to you by an online print shop. After you select the "Order
Cards Online…" item from the File menu, you get into the Web page with the instructions on how to prepare your file
and submit it to the online print shop.
The paper I use is not in the list of supported card stocks. What should I do?
Starting from version 2.0 Business Card Composer supports custom paper layouts (size and arrangement of cards on the page) for
regular and CD-R business cards. So now you can print cards of non-standard form or add support for new card stocks. To
configure a custom layout,
choose ''Card Properties'' from the File menu and switch to the Custom Layouts
tab.
Don't know what paper is best for you? Find out here.
Is there an easy way to print the same card for several people?
Sometimes you may need to print just one card for a group of people so all cards have the same design but contain different
personal information (ID cards, badges, etc.). It's easy with Business Card Composer 2.0. Choose File -> Print for
Several People… . The program will show a dialog where you can choose people from your Address Book for whom
you want to print the cards.
What printer is best for printing my cards?
You can use Business Card Composer with most inkjet and laser printers — and get great results even with inexpensive
models. Click here to read our advice. Another important
thing is paper — it must match your printer to ensure best results. Learn
how to choose the right paper.
Program registration
Does the licensed version turn off the line "Made with BusinessCard Composer"?
This line will disappear immediately after you purchase the full licensed version of the software.
How to use Art Text with Business Card Composer. Art Text License.
A license of Business Card Composer allows you to use Art Text without purchasing an Art Text license. Such use of Art Text
complies with these rules:
- Art Text should be opened from registered Business Card Composer. Use for this the “Art Text” tool bar button with “a” icon.
- The graphics created in Art Text can be used only in Business Card Composer. To send an image from Art Text to Business Card Composer, click the “Link Back” button in the main window of Art Text.
- Art Text opened as a stand-alone application works in the demo mode. A watermark is placed over the exported image. To use Art Text as a stand-alone application, you should purchase a license.
Miscellaneous
The application quits. What should I do?
Please send detailed description to our Technical Support of how it quits and what you did before this (to make it possible for us to repeat the problem. Besides that, send us log-file, which contains details on how the application quits (find it following the path:
~(Your Home)/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/BusinessCard Composer.crash.log
How can I uninstall Business Card Composer?
1) Quit the application.
2) Delete "BusinessCard Composer" from the Application folder.
3) Delete "BusinessCard Composer" folder from ~(Your Macintosh HD)/Library/Application Support/BeLight Software.
4) Delete "BusinessCard Composer.pkg" file from the (Your Macintosh HD)/Library/Receipts folder.
5) Delete com.belightsoft.BusinessCardComposer.plist file from ~(Your Home)/Library/Preferences/ folder.
6) Delete "BusinessCard Composer" folder from ~(Your Home)/Library/Caches/.
What if I have technical questions?
If you have technical questions, please fill in the technical support form on the site. Technical support is provided free of charge for registered users by email.
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