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Making business cards is a hassle if you use standard
DTP packages, but this program makes light work of a mundane task
ROS AND CONS
+ Easy to use
+ Comes with clip art and templates
+ Elegantly programmed
- Can be a bit slow to print
- Limited crop marks
- No full bleeds
VERDICT
"This piece of
software looks set to get better and better. It's the perfect
tool for quickly producing custom business cards in conjunction
with an inkjet printer and some business card stationery."
Your business card says a lot about you, so having a well-designed
and up-todate card to hand out to colleagues and associates can go a long way
to helping you win more business. Fortunately, the production and
updating of business cards has become a lot quicker and easier thanks
to this well-crafted piece of software from Ukrainian developer
BeLight.
Business Card Composer - which is on the cover CD - provides
all the tools you need to create sheets of business cards that can
be printed out on standard business card stationery that's available
from your local office supplies store. It can even use your entry
in Address Book to fill out the details.
Laying out and designing a business card with this Business Card
Composer is really easy, and there are a number of ready-to-use templates
to get you started. The really good thing about this application is that
the software uses Cocoa's extended Font dialog box.This makes changing
font size and type an absolute breeze.
Importing custom images is a simple case of dragging and dropping them,
but if you don't have any clip art and logos then there are backgrounds,
borders and symbols aplenty provided free with the software itself. Clip
art can be adjusted, given borders or even have its opacity tweeked. Frankly,
for such a reasonably-priced program, the attention to detail is very
impressive, indeed.
If there are any gripes, it's the absence of full bleed and controllable
crop marks. This is strictly for printing on colour inkjets with pre-cut
stationery and not for commercial printing... and as far as that is concerned,
it really is hard to beat.
