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What is Business Card Composer? What does
it do?
Business Card Composer is the tool for business card creation and printing.
It's the fastest way to get high quality and professional looking business
card. It's made up of professionally created card designs and a great
number of images. Each design can be customized in many ways.
Business Card Composer is a do-it-yourself program. You can sit for a
few minutes and just create your new card, or sit for a few hours and
play with all of the different ways you can turn one of ready designs
into a professional-looking business card.
On what Macs does Business Card Composer work?
It will run on Mac OS X v.10.2 and higher.
What should I think of before getting started
with Business Card Composer?
- Review how you'd like to introduce your business
- Think of words which you use to describe your business
- Choose images which match your business
- Remember: you shouldn't overdo it. Do not use unreadable fonts, spotty
images and incompatible colors.
- Remember: A business card is there to represent your company.
What if I don't have any of my own images?
Don't worry. Business Card Composer contains over 23.000 high-quality images sorted
into categories. Among them there are vector images scalable to any size, photo objects
with transparent background, which can be applied to any picture to create mixed designs.
You'll surely find something to your taste. The download edition contains a limited number
of graphics — about 700 clipart images.
How to start and create cards
Where Can I Find the Registration Code?
Owners of the download version of the program are getting the registration (license) code in the purchase confirmation e-mail.
Owners of the boxed version receive the code inside the product package. The code is printed on the back side of CD's envelope.
The license code you gave me isn't being accepted by my program. How
can I register it?
Please carefully Copy&Paste your license code into the License dialog. Or, if you
have boxed edition, enter it manually — be attentive: don't use 'O' character,
type only 0 (zero) digit in the license code. Please pay attention that there is also
no capital letter 'I', but only 1 (one) digit in the license code.
How can I make vertical business cards?
Can I change horizontal cards into vertical ones?
We advise you to use Assistant (vertical card designs
are displayed in Plain Text category, and also in some other categories
— you'll see them in Preview). If you wish to turn a horizontal
design into a vertical, use Orientation option of the Card
Properties dialog (menu
File / Card Properties). Then move all fields and images
manually.
My logo is an .eps file. How can I add it to
my card?
If you use Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, you can simply drag-and-drop
the logo file into Business Card Composer. Jaguar users can do the
following: Save your logo as PDF from the application, used
for its creation (or other graphical package). Then in Business
Card Composer, choose the File->Place Image command to insert this
PDF image into the card. The quality will not be lost.
Can I add my own artwork to the images supplied
in the application?
Yes. Select "Custom Folder" in the collection switch. Navigate
to the folder you wish and its contents will be displayed in the left part
of the document window, same as a built-in clipart collection.
Can I use the design of my card for
other cards I make?
Sure. Simply drag and drop the needed person from Apple Address
Book into your card. All data will be substituted. If the needed
person isn't stored in your Address Book, store his data there — they can be used in other applications:-)
Can I use text symbols as clipart?
You have discovered a new source of good-looking cliparts! You can
use symbols from the Mac OS X symbol fonts. In the Font Panel select Show
Characters from the pop-up menu. You'll get Character Palette window.
Drag&Drop symbols to your card. Or toggle on the text editing mode
and double-click on the symbol. You can easily resize, color and
add shadow to this image.
How can I make all objects the same color as that one?
It's easy! Select the required object. Its color buttons in the Properties
window will get its color. Drag&Drop the color with the mouse to assign
it to other objects.
Printing cards
When I print cards with background images, there's a slight imprecision in print. What should I do?
To print fully covered business cards, use the paper with spacing
between cards. The card is automatically stretched for extra 1
mm. Slight imperfection in positioning is covered by this extra
space. More about business card paper.
Does the licensed version turn off the line "Made with BusinessCard Composer"?
This line will disappear immediately after you purchase the full licensed
version of the software.
Can I print my cards in the print shop?
Sure. You can have your business cards printed and delivered to you by an online print shop.
After you select the "Order Cards Online…" item from the File menu,
you get into the Web page with the instructions on how to prepare your file and submit
it to the online print shop.
The paper I use is not in the list
of supported card stocks. What should I do?
Starting from version 2.0 Business Card Composer supports custom
paper layouts (size and arrangement of cards on the page) for regular
and CD-R business cards. So now you can print cards of non-standard
form or add support for new card stocks. To configure
a custom layout, choose ''Card Properties''
from the File menu and switch to the Custom
Layouts tab.
Don't know what paper is best
for you? Find out here.
Is there an easy way
to print the same card for several people?
Sometimes you may need to print just one card for a group of people so
all cards have the same design but contain different personal information
(ID cards, badges, etc.). It's easy with Business Card Composer 2.0. Choose
File -> Print for Several People… . The program
will show a dialog where you can choose people from your Address Book
for whom you want to print the cards.
What printer is best for printing my cards?
You can use Business Card Composer with most inkjet and laser printers
- and get great results even with inexpensive models. Click
here to read our advice. Another important thing is
paper — it must match your printer to ensure best results. Learn
how to choose the
right paper.
Miscellaneous
The application quits. What should I do?
Please send detailed description to our Technical
Support of how it quits and what you did before this (to make it possible for us to repeat
the problem. Besides that, send us log-file, which contains
details on how the application quits (find it following the path:
~(Your Home)/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/BusinessCard Composer.crash.log
How can I uninstall Business Card Composer?
1) Quit the application.
2) Delete "BusinessCard Composer" from the Application folder.
3) Delete "BusinessCard Composer" folder from ~(Your Macintosh HD)/Library/Application Support/BeLight Software.
4) Delete "BusinessCard Composer.pkg" file from the (Your Macintosh HD)/Library/Receipts folder.
5) Delete com.belightsoft.BusinessCardComposer.plist file from ~(Your Home)/Library/Preferences/ folder.
6) Delete "BusinessCard Composer" folder from ~(Your Home)/Library/Caches/.
What if I have technical questions?
If you have technical questions, please fill in the technical
support form on the site. Technical support is provided free of charge
for registered users by email.
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