Business Card Composer Features

Create Business Cards with Ease

Making business cards with Business Card Composer consists of three effortless steps. Simply choose one of over 600 ready-made designs, import your contact information from Address Book right from the Assistant dialog, choose your paper format and you're ready to go. The program supports many various business card types such as folded, double-sided, vertical, horizontal and CD-R business cards.

Vast Font and Image Collection

Business Card Composer comes bundled with 24,000 impressive clipart images (700 in the standard edition) to supply you with all you need to create a design that is sure to make people notice your business card. In addition, you can add images in a variety of formats, including JPEG, TIFF, PDF, GIF, EPS and more. You can also search for images in Google right from the program interface. Integration with iPhoto allows you to import images straight from your iPhoto library. Add a stroke of personality with the 100 additional fonts (retail edition only).

Import Contact Data

Importing contact data for your business cards is a breeze thanks to integration with Address Book. Information fields are filled out automatically upon dragging and dropping a contact into your business card. You can also import data from text files which can help with creating place cards or name badges for large events. The Merge Image functionality lets you import and auto-replace images from Address Book, iPhoto and Finder for printing multiple business cards or badges with portraits.

Powerful Image and Photo Editing Capabilities

You want your business cards to be noticed, and appealing images can help you do just that. Business Card Composer contains an intuitive and powerful image and photo editor powered by Image Tricks. Apply over 60 Core Image effects and filters to your pictures to make your business cards stand out. You can also choose from over 100 unique image masks or use your own image as a mask.

Design Tools

Create professional designs for your business cards using the design tools included in Business Card Composer. The Foreground and Background layers help you keep your design canvas uncluttered, making it easier to work with objects. In addition to tinting, tiling, rotation and controlling the opacity of objects, you can add shadows and color fills.

Striking 3D Text and Graphics

Integration with Art Text allows you to open and run Art Text to create striking graphics for your business cards. This feature is handy for creating logos for future businesses or other unique graphics for your business card design. Learn more about the Art Text Bonus App.

Three Printing Methods

With this program, you have three unique printing methods for various situations. You can print one design for one person which is great for printing large batches of one business card. Printing multiple designs allows you to print multiple design alternatives. In addition, you have the option of printing cards of the same design for different people, which is handy when creating name badges or corporate business cards.

Using the Result

Business Card Composers supports about 700 business card papers for ink jet and laser printers from Avery, APLI, Decadry, Sigel A-One and many other popular manufacturers. If your paper isn't supported, quickly and effortlessly create custom layouts. Export your cards to PDF, TIFF, EPS and JPEG formats for the printshop or sending your card electronically. Printing double-sided cards is a snap thanks to duplex printer support.

Print multiple card designs on one sheet	Create custom layouts for non-standard cards	Use Assistant to speed-up your work

All Features of Business Card Composer

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 image masks.
• Apply Mac OS X Tiger Core Image filters to your images.

Design Business Cards

• Create regular, folded and CD-R cards.
• Horizontal and vertical layouts supported.
• Full support for double-sided cards. Both sides are saved in the same document, allowing you to switch between sides on a fly and print them with ease.
• Smart guides help to arrange design elements neatly.
• Option to manually set object position and size.
• 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, including text alignment within text boxes.
• 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.
• 100 additional fonts (retail edition only).

Working with Graphics

• Tintt images with colors, tile and rotate them, as well as change their transparency.
• 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 directly in Composer.
• A custom image can be used as a mask in addition to the predesigned masks.
• Select multiple objects with the ability to resize and rotate them as a single item.
• Converting a text object into an image allows you to apply image effects to it.
• Adjustable export to EPS.
• Art Text integration helps to create high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons and buttons.

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.
• The counter feature allows you to numerate cards and assign each card a unique number.
• Text File Data support allows to read data from text files. This can be helpful when creating badges for a conference, etc.
• Merge Image functionality allows to import and auto-replace images from Address Book, iPhoto and Finder. This can be used for creating badges and printing iPhoto thumbnails.
• Spotlight support allows the 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 cards 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.
• Ruler and measurement units save you time on editing data.

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 for choosing among 3 printing methods. You can either print cards for yourself, or print one design for several people, or print multiple designs on one sheet.
• In the printing process, the preview window with the additional settings displays your modifications on the fly.
• The 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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