The Fedora business cards specification explains the new standard for business cards that represent Ambassadors and other contributors to the general public. The cards were designed in consultation with Artwork, Marketing, and the Fedora Project Leader (Paul W. Frields).
This document explains the procedure for producing a business card and converting the colors to CMYK in Scribus for printing.
Install fedora-business-cards
fedora-business-cards
is the client application that produces an SVG, PNG, or PDF of a business card and can automatically fill in information in the standard format. Since Fedora 9, you can install fedora-business-cards from PackageKit or yum. With yum as root:
yum install fedora-business-cards
You will need version 0.2.3 or later.
Generate your card
There are different templates for different purposes. You can run
fedora-business-cards --list-templates
to see all of them. You can then pass the template you want (the default is northamerica
)
To convert the colors in Scribus, we will want to output to an EPS. This assures that the fonts are converted to paths so that Scribus doesn't muck anything up.
fedora-business-cards --eps
Provide the program with your FAS username and password, and it will show you a sample of the text on your card.
Current business card layout: +-------------------------------------------------------------+ n | Ian Weller | t | Fedora Project Contributor | | | 0 | ianweller@fedoraproject.org | 1 | (919) 424-0063 x 5103066 | 2 | ianweller on irc.freenode.net | 3 | fedoraproject.org | 4 | | 5 | GPG key ID: EFA84A36 | | | | | | fedora freedom | friends | features | first | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Enter a line number to edit, or [y] to accept:
If you are happy with this text, type "y" and press Enter. If you would like to change a specific line, enter the number or letter of that line (for example, "n" or "3" to change "Ian Weller" or "fedoraproject.org", respectively) and press Enter.
Once the layout is accepted, the program will export two SVG files: one for the front of the card, and one for the back of the card. The files are exported to fasname-front.eps
and fasname-back.eps
, where fasname is your FAS username.
Convert to CMYK
You will need Scribus for this procedure. scribus
is a free desktop publishing tool, but works great for our purposes since it has CMYK support. If you don't have it installed already, install it from Yum:
yum install scribus
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gs -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None -sOutputFile='ianweller-back.pdf' ianweller-back.eps -c quit
- Dark Blue: 100 57 0 38
- Blue: 100 46 0 0