Creating Business Cards

When creating a business card, you have the option to start with a completely blank card, or you can use the New Card Wizard. There are over 400 templates to choose from, with different layouts, background art, fonts and card orientation.

 

The Wizard will guide you through the process to create a new card. In most cases, the New Card Wizard is all you will need.

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Design Tools
If you want to fine tune the business card, or if you want to create one from scratch, the main design screen (screenshot), has a wealth of tools to assist you, including
Simple Text - for placing simple text on the business card, using any Windows font. the text can also be rotated, take on a 3D appearance, be aligned left/right/center, and may be transparent or have a selectable background color and border.
MultiLine Text - for long paragraphs of text. Also supports left/right/center alignment, and may use any Windows font.
Symbol - this is a special tool for using all of those "symbol" fonts built into Windows, such as Wingdings and Webdings.
Common shapes - including rectangle, ellipse, round rectangle, and line - with line color and thickness, transparent or selectable color.
Image/Clipart - for placing clipart on the business card. Select common formats including *.BMP, *.JPG, *.JIF, *.ICO, *.WMF, *.EMF and *.GIF. There is also a new Clipart Browser for easily finding and placing the included clipart, or images from your hard drive.
SuperShape - The SuperShape tool is a multi-purpose design tool which can be rectangle, oval, rounded rectangle, diamond, triangle or star shaped, and can have special effects properties including shadows, textured surfaces, gradient filled surfaces. (note: There are over 500 brand new textures included with Visual Business Cards 4.)
Rich Text - the Rich Text tool lets you enter text in Rich Text Format (RTF). Rich Text Format is the format used by most word processors, and allows multiple fonts, font sizes, font colors, alignments, etc within a block of text..
SuperText - The SuperText tool is a special-effects text object which can include shadows, textured surfaces and gradient filled surfaces. (note: There are over 500 brand new textures included with Visual Business Cards 4.)
CircleText - The CircleText tool displays text in a circular or semicircular manner ( 90,180,270 or 360 degrees)
Callout. A Callout is like the little balloon captions that you see in comic books.
Backgrounds. There are over 500 backgrounds included with Visual Business Cards 4. Here are some examples

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Printing Business Cards

Visual Business Cards is designed to work with most common business card stock including:

...and also supports User Defined layouts. You are able to adjust and fine tune any aspect of the layout.

 

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Program Requirements

Windows XP or Windows Vista.

Hard disk with at least 20 MB available.

800 x 600 screen resolution or better

It is recommended that you use a good quality color printer.

 

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