Creation Postcards

Snailmail is still used not only for official and commerce correspondence. It is much more pleasure to get a greeting card to your birthday, rather than e-mail or SMS. Such a greeting card better expresses your feelings to an other person.

Of course it is not easy to find a card which exactly reflects your mood and emotions. Fortunately the modern technology allows you to made a postcard by yourself.

Creating a New Poscard from Assistant

If you are new to Mail Factory, or want to create your postcard using one of the ready-made designs, start from the Assistant. Follow the 2 easy steps. First, select a postcard paper layout from the list. Then choose one of the ready-made designs.
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Your postcard with the selected design will appear on the design canvas in the Mail Factory window. If you're satisfied with the way everything looks, you can print your postcard (see "Printing Labels, Envelopes and Postcards"). Otherwise, you can edit the postcard by customizing and adding text, graphics, changing fonts, etc.

For more information about editing your document, see "Editing Objects".

Creating a New Blank Postcard

To create a new blank postcard, do the following:

1. Choose File/New Postcard or press Cmd+Ctrl+N.
2. A new blank postcard will appear. By default, the most recently used layout will be offered. You can change it at any time. For this, click the Layouts button on the toolbar.
3. To choose one of the predefined layouts (such as Avery, Decadry, etc.), enter the product part number in the Search field. If you've already used this layout in Mail Factory, click on the Recently Used tab and choose one of the last layouts you worked with.
4. To choose a custom layout, click the Custom tab at the top of the dialog. If you created custom layouts before, they will be shown in the list. To choose a layout, select it and click OK. To create a new layout, click the Create New... button. To duplicate or edit an existing layout, use the Duplicate or Edit... buttons respectively. For more information about custom layouts, see "Editing Custom Layouts".

Now you can place text, add images, etc. For more information, see "Editing Objects".