Business Card Composer News - August 28th, 2003
Hello friends,
We have some good news in this issue:
-Meet current Composer update to version 1.1
-Some opinions on Composer from Apple Guru&Consultants
-Business Card Composer Tips&Tricks
1. What's is the Business Card Composer update
to version 1.1?
It's The Third from a whole family of free updates by
user reguest :-) The update allows user to get additional options during
print and export of ready business cards and enriched input of hieroglyphical
text for Composer users from Japan, China etc.
-From now our estimated user can print the cards in a
printing shop also, thanks to enhanced PDF output made within all needed
requirements of printing service.
-The printing at home printer is more flexible due to
a raster or vector output option.
Read more information in the Business Card Composer Tips&Tricks
below.
-Presently a list of supported paper layouts contains
new titles from paper manufacturers:
A-ONE, Elecom, Sanwa Supply - from Japan, DECAdry and Micro Application
- from Europe.
INSTALLATION NOTICE after running Update Installer:
Please keep in mind that on the Select Destinations Stage you need manually
choose destination disk and folder, where the previous version of Composer
is stored (Application Folder usually).
Download the update at:
http://www.belightsoft.com/download
2. Our Composer got high opinion from Mac
software specialists. Hurrah!
* We are happy to quote Dr.Mac (Bob LeVitus):
"I used to layout pages of cards by hand, in Photoshop or InDesign,
which was a time-consuming proposition. Business Card Composer makes
it much faster and easier."
* BeLight team started a long-term relationship with The
Apple Consultant Network members. They highly appreciate a quality and
OS X feel&look of Composer. The ACN members' feedback leads to future
Composer development.
3. Business Card Composer Tips&Tricks:
* My logo is .eps file. How can I add it to my card?
Business Card Composer does not support .eps, so far. However, it perfectly
supports PDF format. Save your logo as PDF from the application, used
for its creation (or other graphical package). Insert this PDF image
into the card and its quality will not be lost.
* Can I send my cards to the printing house?
You can use export to TIFF or exported PDF formats. Starting from the
current version 1.1, the best choice will be a PDF. Why?
It?s superior in quality and the exported PDF contains special trim
lines (1/8 in), which mark where the printing press will cut. So, the
requirements of major print shops are considered.
* My printer is printing the page actually quite long.
What I can do?
The reason is Composer contains default option sending to printer a
raster image with a high resolution. Because of a looong data the printing
is slow and meditative:-).
You can improve up the situation within version 1.1. Just disable "Print
card as raster image" in Preferences dialog. Then the card will
be sent as a vector and printing will be reanimated.
Please consider also that some jet printers don't handle the vector
data correctly:-(.
Nonetheless, it's yours choice...
Wish your cards, made with love, to be well-remembered!
Alex Futurnoff
BeLight Software Team
