danj1@cbnewse.ATT.COM (Dan Jacobson) (01/16/90)
I'm thinking of making my business card with TeX/LaTeX. Anybody did this before? My company logo is one big letter in a special font... not too difficult. I've got my name in PostScript Chinese characters too; that I guess I will use \special for (?). Looks like it will be on regular paper too, unfortunately. -- Dan Jacobson +1-708-979-6364 danj1@ihlpa.ATT.COM
chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) (01/16/90)
Things like advertisements, where form is more important than content, and the result will never be reused, are generally best done in graphic or page description languages (e.g., PostScript). Business cards are of course reusable, so this argument does not apply quite as well. The most straightforward way to put a logo onto a page using TeX is to make the logo a character (or several characters) in a METAFONT font. There are even consultants who will do this for you. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@cs.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) (01/16/90)
In article <21839@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes: >The most straightforward way to put a logo onto a page using TeX is >to make the logo a character (or several characters) in a METAFONT font. >There are even consultants who will do this for you. You don't say! ;-) -- Again, my opinions, not the account furnishers'. xanthian@well.sf.ca.us xanthian@ads.com (Kent Paul Dolan) Kent, the (bionic) man from xanth, now available as a build-a-xanthian kit at better toy stores near you. Warning - some parts proven fragile. -> METAFONT, TeX, graphics programming done on spec -- (415) 964-4486 <-
rcpt@eutrc4.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) (01/17/90)
Here is my approach to make a ``visistekaartje'', as is called bussiness
card into Dutch. On one A4 10 (2 * 5) cards are printed. The cards are
separated by plusses (+) so you can easily cut the cards. I print the
cards on thicker paper. The parameters are in the beginning of the file.
The TeX-file uses a local font, our tue-logo (Technical University
Eindhoven). This logo is made with METAFONT. To see the results you can
change this font with another font or ask me the METAFONT sources of tue,
if you like.
The TeX-file uses a mixture of Dutch and English. I hope this will give no
problems. Dutch and English have the same ancestor!
A lot of fun with designing your bussiness card, Piet
uucp: rcpt@urc.tue.nl | Piet Tutelaers Room RC 1.82
bitnet: rcpt@heithe5.BITNET | Eindhoven University of Technology
phone: +31 (0)40 474541 | P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, NL
---------cut-here------------------------------visitea4.tex-----------
%
% BEGIN PARAMETERS
%
%===========================================================
\def\NAAM{Piet Tutelaers}
\def\Tel{Telefoon\space(040)\space474541\space/\space474089}
\def\bitnet{rcpt@heitue5}
\def\uucp{piet@urc.tue.nl}
%===========================================================
%
% EINDE PARAMETERS
%
\parskip=0pt
\baselineskip=0pt
\lineskip=0pt
\nopagenumbers
\hsize=21cm\hoffset=-2.04cm
\vsize=29.7cm\voffset=-1.84cm
\font\tue=tue scaled 1000 % <<<================= LOCAL FONT
\font\namefont=cmssbx10 scaled\magstep2
\font\addressfont=cmss10
\font\smallfont=cmss10
\font\plusfont=cmr8
\def\hoogte{5.3cm}
\def\breedte{9.5cm}
\def\kol{\hoogte} % breedte van rechter kolom
\def\boxit#1{\hbox{\vrule\vtop
{\vbox{\hrule\kern0pt\hbox{\kern0pt
\strut#1\kern0pt}}\kern0pt\hrule}\vrule}}
\def\emptybox#1#2#3{\setbox0=\null\ht0=#1 \dp0=#2 \wd0=#3 \boxit{\box0}}
\def\merkje{\setbox1=\hbox{\plusfont+} \ht1=0pt \dp1=0pt \wd1=0pt \box1}
\def\snijlijn{\hbox{\merkje\kern\breedte\merkje\kern\breedte\merkje\hfil}}
\def\regel#1{\hbox to\kol{#1\hfil}}
\def\logo{\hbox{\tue tue\hfil}}
\def\adres{\hbox{ % adres
\vbox{ \baselineskip=12pt\addressfont
\regel{Technische Universiteit Eindhoven}
\regel{Den Dolech 2}
\regel{5612 AZ EINDHOVEN}
\smallfont
\regel{\Tel}
}
}
}
\def\naam{\hbox{ % naam
\vbox{ \baselineskip=12pt\namefont
\regel{\NAAM}
\addressfont
\regel{Rekencentrum}
}
}
}
\def\mail{\hbox to\kol{
\vbox{ \baselineskip=12pt
\halign{##\quad&##\hfil\cr
uucp: &\uucp\cr
bitnet:&\bitnet\cr}
}
\hfill
}
}
\def\kaartje{
\hbox to \breedte{
\kern0.4cm
\vbox to \hoogte{\vskip0pt plus2fil\logo\vskip0pt plus8fil}
\kern.7cm
\vbox to \hoogte{
\kern.5cm
\adres
\vfil
\naam
\kern6pt
\smallfont\mail
\kern.5cm
}
\kern0.1cm
}
}
\def\tweekaartjes{\hbox{\kaartje\kern0cm\kaartje\hfil}}
\def\eena4{
\vbox{
\snijlijn\kern0cm\tweekaartjes\kern0cm
\snijlijn\kern0cm\tweekaartjes\kern0cm
\snijlijn\kern0cm\tweekaartjes\kern0cm
\snijlijn\kern0cm\tweekaartjes\kern0cm
\snijlijn\kern0cm\tweekaartjes\kern0cm
\snijlijn
}
\vfill\eject
}
\eena4 % Piet
\bye