Stamp Page Design Software

Are the images going to be in a subfolder(s) of the folder where the db is (easy), or in a completely different path (harder)?

I'm under Commercial Print Information->Manage Embedded Fonts. All three open source fonts I use all say "May Not Embed."

Not sure how to fix that. Publisher is bound by whatever license restrictions are on the fonts, and unfortunately most third party fonts don't allow embedding. AFAIK, the only easy long-term solution is to find an adequate substitute that's a standard MS or Adobe font.

Ok, I think I finally found a layout I can live with:

So, here is my attempt to deal with the Aloha stamps. Opinions?

Hi

Just a comment about fonts.

Embedding Fonts in a document is never a good thing unless it is a non-standard Font and you are going to send a document to someone else. When I have that sort of situation, and it has occurred only once, I sent the documents and the Font file separately with instructions as to where to place it on the disk.

It makes ones files much larger than necessary and if a lot of files it takes up a lot of disk real estate unnecessarily.

Jerry B.

Hi apastuszak

That page looks a lot better

Regarding the Aloha Shirts. I would have put the block of text in the middle at the top, above all the images. Then the sheet and coil images closer together, so that there is not a lot of white space, and both centered on the booklet image.

Jerry B

BeeSee,

Shoot me your e-mail address and I'll send you a copy.

Ok, what does everyone think of this?

I have just learned that Scribus is scriptable, and the scripting language is python. Time for some tinkering... Been a long time since I did anything in python...

Hi apastuszak

If you are more familiar with C# then you can convert to Python or Ruby on line for free:
http://www.developerfusion.com/tool...sharp-to-vb/

It seems to be the one everyone uses. I use it for C# to VB.NET and it works very well. Google for on-line converters and you will find a bunch of them. So make life easy and use the language you are most familiar with (not English, programming language) and convert to Python.

Jerry B

Apastuszak, re your question about the layout. The second one is fine but the whole thing needs to be moved up the page. More space below the items than there is above them generally looks better.

Going back to your image with the Bonsai stamps, note that you missed a digit in the date of issue "2012". Also, the John H. Johnson stamp should have a period after his middle initial in the title line.

As for the latest Aloha Shirts issue, I also agree that it needs to be moved up a bit. Further, it seems that you may have left too much space for the vertical format of five (5) stamps in booklet form. Also, don't forget that the booklet was issued on a different date (June 2, 2012) and that should be so indicated under the title for the booklet version of the stamp.

Yeah, I'm thinking the Aloha booklet is probably going to go father back in the pages to put it in proper date order. I need to buy the Aloha booklet and actually measure it. it's hard to use the postal bulletin to measure multiple stamps, when die cuts overlap.

Personally, I don't know a damn thing about C#. I know bash, perl and python. I've managed to get Scribus to make some text boxes and an image box. Now I am trying to get an image to resize. I have sample python code, but it's a tad out of my league at the moment.

Overall, it's a good thing. Knowledge of python is good for my IT career, so this is both a philatelic and career learning experience.

apastuszak,

A quick question on this:




With the description on the side of the box, where are the title and date aligned horizontally? Still centered on the box, or on the description + box?