Volunteer Idea for Designers: TiddlyWiki Poster -> Business card

[Devin Weaver]

I love the idea of the poster (http://tiddlywiki.com/poster/) but some community boards might not have enough room for a full 8.5x11 page. Though it would be great to have instead a few business cards in my pocket I could tack up on random boards in stores and coffee shops when I don't have the pull page poster at hand.

I tried my hand at editing the SVG and found that I can not edit SVG, it did not end well. So I figure it was worth tossing the idea to other people much more talented with Vector graphics then I.

What do ya say any one interested in making a business card version of the poster to go along with it?

[PMario]

Hi Devin,

A very interesting idea. I did a short test with an Austrian online service.

It looks like this, on step before you order it :) ... The general problem with business cards is, that the format is quite different in different countries. .... as usual :)
and the color definitions should be CMYK for printing instead of RGB for monitors. So I'm not sure, if the colours look good.

I found a list at visitenkarten24.org

• ~ 55 x 85 mm | Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands
• ~ 55 x 90 mm | Australia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark
  
• ~ 55 x 91 mm | Japan
• ~ 54 x 90 mm | Hong Kong
• ~ 50 x 90 mm | Argentina, Finland, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, ...
  
• ~ 51 x 89 mm | USA, England, Canada

I did play a little bit with the original SVG and scaled it to 55x85 + bleed. I did export it to tiff with ~405dpi.

As you can see it seems to work here, but I think the text should be a little bit bigger and the "input/output" lines should be thinner.

I found some more settings in Inkscape, so it may be possible to create an image, that fits all formats.

Their preview looks like this. ... but imo the image quality is not very good.

What do you think?

have fun!
mario

[1] http://www.visitenkarten-24.org

[Devin Weaver]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 09:08:26AM -0700, PMario wrote:
>As you can see it seems to work here, but I think the text should be a
>little bit bigger and the "input/output" lines should be thinner.

>What do you think?

This looks awesome! I agree text could be resized and repositioned. For
my usage case any size would do but the 51 x 89 would fit well in my
wallet.

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