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Business Card Composer. Design and Print Excellent Business Cards.

Professional designsProgram 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!

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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

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.
  • Photo objects with transparent background7,000 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.

Read tips on how to choose a printer or get the most from the one you own.

Print Multiple Designs Screenshot Change Layout Screenshot Business Card Composer Assistant Screenshot
Print multiple card designs on one sheet
Create custom layouts for non-standard cards
Use Assistant to speed-up your work



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