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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:16:02 +0000
From: Howard Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Michael Stutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Making greeting cards
Michael Stutz wrote:
>
> This is the month for greeting cards, and I was wondering if anyone has ever
> used their systems to make them? I stopped reading slashdot around
> Thanksgiving, but I saw that this was a recent Ask Slashdot topic, and it
> recieved a pitiful three responses, none of them any helpful: <>
>
> So -- anyone have experience making greeting cards and the like on
> Linux-based systems?
>
> I have some ideas which I'll share if this topic generates interest. The
> epitome of bad application design I think are specialized applications like
> those "Greeting Card Creator" apps that exist on a certain non-free OS ...
> the important thing is the ability to: 1. typeset some text in a typeface
> and font of your choice; 2. scan and/or draw an image or images; 3. combine
> them on a double-sided page; 3. print it to the right size ...
Michael,
If you have drawing talent and xfig, you can do just about anything.
I compiled and installed version 3.2.2, which comes with a library and
all sorts of neat looking sample files. If your Christmas cards require
electrical schematic symbols and a colour orthogonal view of a General
Dynamics F111, you have it made.
Xfig normally operates in snap mode, but you can and should turn
this off for freehand drawing. It uses all three mouse buttons,
intensively.
--
Howard Gibson
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