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With Business Card Composer you can make:
� business cards
� original personal or calling cards
� fan club cards
� let your imagination flow freely
BCC UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS:
� no designs skills required to create perfect cards
� your business cards are the most attractive
� set of tools and effects for Mac-styled card
Business Card Composer is a do-it-yourself program. You can sit for a few minutes and quickly create a new card, or sit for a few hours and play with all of the bells and whistles.
Business Card Composer offers you a simple three-step process for making professional-quality business cards.
Step 1: Choose your design.
Choose one of the multiple designs included with Business Card Composer. There are both card backgrounds and pictures in the image libraries, which appear as thumbnails in a column on the left side of the composition window. You can insert personal information from the Apple Address Book into each design. Card sizes and properties can be specified in this dialog:
Step 2: Customize your design
Now you can use Business Card Composer's array of tools, such as masked and transparent objects and backgrounds, random background generators, borders, and color choices the dress up and customize your card design.
Step 3: Print your new business cards
Once you are satisfied with the card design you've created, you can print out your business cards with any laser or inkjet printer. Specific business card stock f is supported by the software.
BCC Features detail:
Design your card quickly
The Assistant lets you choose among nearly 130 supplied designs, so you can create a nice-looking card in just 3 mouse-clicks. You won't need to draw or type anything manually.
Made for Mac
Business Card Composer is a true Mac application. Written in Cocoa, it has the same look and feel as Mac OS X. It won't take you long to get used to it - the program looks familiar and clear for any Mac user.
Decorate your card with images and masks
The program comes with more than 500 images, organized by categories. Moreover, the built-in Google search - NEW. allows you to search and download images by keywords - right from the program! You can apply more than 50 masks to images, control opacity, assign shadows. All this lets you easily create original cards with professional quality.
NEW. Order your card from a print shop
The program is integrated with the print shop. If you need to print a large number of cards (100 or more) or you're not satisfied with the quality of your printer, you can submit your design to an online print shop, where your cards will be printed and mailed to you.
If you plan to take your design to another print shop, the application allows to export the card to PDF, conforming to print shop requirements.
NEW. Support for custom layouts
Allows you to use custom paper, create cards of non-standard sizes or use the program for printing all kinds of labels, invitation cards, etc. Your custom layouts can be saved for later use.
Address Book integration
Entering or changing information on your card is as easy as can be - just drag a person from your Address Book onto the card. So, it's very easy to use the same design for many people.
NEW. Print cards for several people
In Business Card Composer you can easily print ID cards, invitations or badges for a group of people. Design a card, and then choose the people from your Address Book for whom you want to print the cards. By using this feature with custom layouts you can quickly create fancy invitations and greeting cards.
Support for most business card stock
Allows you to print cards without worrying - just pick up the paper you will use from the list of hundreds supported, and the program will print them properly. Avery, Apli, Decadry, Sigel, A-One paper layouts and many other are supported.
I found Business Card Composer to be slick, intuitive, easy, and fun to use. It is a Macintosh-oriented application, and one of the theme sets features exclusively Macintosh images, indeed, I was as I was delighted to note, images of both of my current production computers, a 700 MHz iBook and a 500 MHz Pismo PowerBook.
There is also a wide selection of card backgrounds:
With business card composer you can go as simple and austere or as fancy and ornate as you like. I prefer a clean, understated look, and here are a couple of samples of what I was able to put together with a few minutes' work using Business Card Composer.
I like Buiness Card Composer. It strikes what I think is an ideal balance between capability and featuritis. The program is simple and intuitive enough that users with no experience in graphic arts should be able to produce top drawer results without the necessity of climbing a steep learning curve, but sufficiently powerful that completely professional-looking results can be attained.
New in this version:
� German localization added
� Some problems fixed:
- Slow start-up when Address Book contains many records - now fixed.
- Duplicating with the Option key is now possible
� NOTE: If you don't need German localization or didn't experience the metnioned problems, you may skip this update.
System requirements:
� Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
A free trial version may be downloaded from:
http://www.belightsoft.com/download/
Business Card Composer is $39.95 shareware
The only restriction of the unlicensed software copy - additional information about the software developer is included into each printed card.
For more information, visit:
http://www.belightsoft.com/composer/
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