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fedora-business-cards 0.2

I’ve released fedora-business-cards, the Fedora business card generator (aptly named, eh?) as version 0.2.

Tarball – Specfile and SRPM – git repository

This is a prerelease version; I don’t make any guarantees of its usability, functionality, or awesomeness. There are two known bugs: I haven’t written any new documentation, and letters with accent marks (such as “Máirín Duffy”) don’t show up properly in the MgOpen Moderna font. Both are being worked on.

I don’t plan to put it in Fedora until I get a tangible release, possibly with a graphical frontend (not highly necessary, though). Running 

fedora-business-cards --help

after installing should help you get started; the CLI interface is pretty straightforward.

And yeah, you need a FAS account to create these.

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8 Responses to “fedora-business-cards 0.2”

  1. What is the advantage of using this over manually editing a SVG file? or maybe over editing a gLabels file?

    nicu on October 7th 2008 at 6:32 am

  2. @nicu: Well, yeah, if you want, you can certainly do it that way. This is to make it slightly easier and automatically fill in the default information as recommended by Mo, Paul, and I.

    Hopefully we’ll be able to get rid of the inkscape requirement and find a way to properly render the SVG without it, although it’s not looking too good. I’ll be creating a gLabels template, too… it might require some refactoring of the code, though.

    Ian Weller on October 7th 2008 at 6:10 pm

  3. How to use? any suggestions?

    Charles Peng on October 20th 2008 at 5:59 am

  4. @Charles: I’m writing some documentation this weekend, hopefully that’ll help you. The –help switch should provide enough general data to help you use it, however… but the documentation will definitely help.

    Ian Weller on October 24th 2008 at 6:21 am

  5. Hi,

    Just using it, looks great :)

    However, what does the line (1) corresponds to ?

    It says it connected to FAS, then fetched my personal infos (that’s nice by the way :), and this line is now:
    (919) 424-0063 x 5100753

    I have absolutely no idea what that means ^_^

    bochecha on October 26th 2008 at 8:47 pm

  6. @bochecha: That’s the talk.fedoraproject.org number for Raleigh and your extension. You can change it. I plan to write in a feature for the next version that will hide that line if you don’t have Fedora Talk turned on in FAS.

    Ian Weller on October 27th 2008 at 12:50 am

  7. hmmmm

    Does it mean that anyone can join me using this number if I’m using something like ekiga with my FAS account ? o_O

    (as a side note, what is « Raleigh » ? :D)

    bochecha on October 27th 2008 at 12:57 am

  8. @bochecha: Yeah. And of course, you can remove the phone number from the card if you like, or change it with another phone number.

    Raleigh is a city in North Carolina, USA where Red Hat’s main offices are located.

    Ian Weller on October 31st 2008 at 1:01 am