Program Features

A perfect application must combine the ease-of-use with rich capabilities. With Business Card Composer, you can create a nice card with just a few mouse clicks, using Assistant and Address Book integration. Or simply take data from a text file, use the counters to numerate cards — and your badges are ready. Choose among tons of images and professional designs, use the rich editing capabilities — masking, opacity, transparency — and... your friends and colleagues will never believe you didn't take that 6 month Photoshop course!

Graphics

• More than 24,000 clipart images (700 — in standard edition).
• More than 600 ready-made designs, organized in categories (500 — in standard edition).
• More than 100 unique masks.
• Apply Mac OS X Tiger Core Image filters to your images.

Design Business Cards

• Create regular, folded, CD-R cards.
• Horizontal and vertical layouts supported.
• Full support for double-sided cards (double-sided card saving in the same document, switching between sides on a fly, printing).
• Smart guides help to arrange design elements neatly.
• Option to set object position and size manually.
• Adjust vertical spacing or distribute objects vertically and horizontally.
• Horizontal and vertical object alignment.
• Make use of adjustable shadows with color settings.
• 3 alignment modes, among them text alignment as to the text borders.
• The application supports object editing on Background and Foreground layers, which helps to create advanced card designs.
• Special text labels for marking phone number, e-mail, etc.
• 50 Bitstream fonts (Retail edition only).

Working with Graphics

• Control transparency, tint images with colors, tile and rotate them.
• Insert images in many supported formats — TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS and more.
• 7,000 photo objects with transparent background can be applied to any picture to create mixed designs.
• Search images by keywords.
• Image cropping allows you to crop images to remove the parts you don't like directly in Composer.
• A custom image can be used as a mask as well as predesigned masks.
• Select multiple objects with the opportunity to resize and rotate them as a single item.
• Converting text object into an image allows to apply image effects to it.
• Adjustable export to EPS.

Technologies

• Universal Binary version that allows to run natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintosh computers.
• Integration with Apple Address Book — drag and drop contacts right onto your cards.
• Integration with iPhoto lets preview and use pictures from the iPhoto libraries.
• Search images in Google — right from Business Card Composer!
• Images from a custom folder can be used along with the built-in clipart.
• Generate fancy random backgrounds with a click of the button.
• Order your cards to be printed and mailed to you from an online print shop.
• Counter feature allows you to numerate cards, assign each card a unique number.
• Text File Data support allows to read the data from text files. This can be helpful for creating badges for a conference, etc.
• Merge Image functionality allows to import and auto-replace images from Address Book, iPhoto and Finder. Can be used for creating badges and printing iPhoto thumbnails.
• Spotlight support allows system to search a text within Business Card Composer documents.
• Quick Look technology support allows you to view the content of a file without even opening it.

Usability

• 3-step Assistant to get started quickly.
• About 700 supported business card paper for ink jet and laser printers, from Avery, APLI, Decadry, Sigel, A-One and other manufacturers.
• Use custom layouts for unsupported card stock, greeting cards, badges and other kinds of labels.
• Customizable export to PDF and TIFF allows to save your design in a format, appropriate for sending to a professional print shop.
• Use export to JPEG format for sending business card via e-mail.
• Address set-up option in Preferences allows you to set specific address fields order for different countries.
• "Set address field in a line" allows to modify two-lined address from Address Book into one line automatically.
• A ruler and measurement units save your time for data editing.

Print Cards

• Printer calibration allows to fine-tune the printer for accurate results.
• Cut marks can be printed — helpful for printing on non-perforated paper.
• Control the number of cards you want to print and the position on the sheet from where to start printing.
• Duplex printers support for printing double-sided cards.
• New printing technology allows choosing among 3 printing methods. You can either print cards for yourself, or print one design for several people, or even print multiple designs on one sheet.
• In the printing process, preview window with the additional settings displays your modifications on the fly.
• Text to Curve feature (using Export options) lets you transform the document into vector image, this will help to avoid problems with font absence when you send a document to a printshop.

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