Groff Gems: Business Card

Synopsis

In the United States, special perforated paper stock can be purchased at business supply stores. One of these is Avery 8371 Ink Jet Business Cards. The standard US letter stock is perforated to provide tne 2" x 3.5" business cards per sheet.

The groff files here provide definitions required by groff to create the business cards on the card stock. The following files are required in the working directory:

BUSCARD.rbh general business card driver for Avery 8371 Stock
buscard.rbh Specific business card specification for Robert B. Herrmann
npspic Extension to groff tmac.pspic macros to introduce a .PSPIL and .PSPIR operator. These permit changing the aspect ratio of the image.

To create the business cards, use the command line:

         groff BUSCARD.rbh > postscript_file
         lpr postscript_file

Output

One Business Card:


output card

Output Sheet:


output sheet

Sources

Not Included

Last Update on January 11, 2000