On 10/5/2010 8:39 PM, jwminer at accessvt.com wrote: > You don't need a template for this. If you want a card that stands > up like a pup tent, you want a landscape card. HOWEVER, you print on > a portrait paper. > > First make a mockup. Take a sheet of paper, hold it in portrait > position, and fold in half horizontally. Scribble on the front of > the card and wrote "front." With the back of the card facing you, > write "back." Do not write anything upside down. Hold the card > folded with the front facing you. Open the paper and write "top" on > the top half and "message" on the bottom half. Do not write upside > down. > > Now set up a two-page portrait document in Scribus. Drag a guide to > the horizontal middle of the document and the vertical middle. Using > your mockup as a guide, put the front illustration on the bottom > half of the first page. Put whatever you're putting on the back on > the top half. When you've put everything you want there, rotate the > whole top half 180 degrees, so it's upside down as you look at it. > On page 2 put the message on the bottom half. If you want something > on the top half of the inside page, put it there. Do not rotate > anything. > > At this point you might want to make a PDF in Scribus and print from > the PDF. > > Print page one first. After it prints, put it back in the printer > to print the inside of the card. In most inkjets, you would put the > paper in with the front illustration on the bottom of the sheet as > you put it in the printer. (The illustration is actually the top of > the page, so it should go in the printer first.) Then print page 2, > which is the inside of the card. Look at the card when it's entirely > printed and make sure things are in the right position. If the card > doesn't open with everything in the right place, make whatever > adjustments are needed so it prints all elements where they belong. > > You can save your card as a template for future landscape cards > (folded in half with fold at the top). > > Some hints: > * Use card stock for printing the card. You don't need to get > prefolded card paper. > * A bleed makes the card look professional. An 8-1/2" by 5-1/2" card > with a white border around the illustration and background risks > looking amateurish. Leave some space to trim when you set the size > of the card. If you're using a bleed and your front illustration has > a color background, bump it up very slightly past the horizontal > middle guide. That is so you do not have any white around the > illustration. Then trim the white edges around the illustration. > * The horizontal and vertical guides will help you center things. > Add more guides where they will help with alignment. > > Confession: I find it a bit easier to use Inkscape for making cards, > though Scribus would be my second choice. > --Judy M. > USA > >
Nice walk through... thank you. Ken
