[ale] printing on 3x5 cards

[Jim]

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Jim.
Jim Philips wrote:

>On Monday 17 April 2006 06:52, Geoffrey wrote:
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>>Jim Philips wrote:
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>>>I got interested in GTD as a productivity system and there is a neat way
>>>to implement it called the Hipster PDA, that involves keeping all of your
>>>info on a small stack of 3x5 index cards. I found some templates for
>>>printing out the cards. But I can't make them print correctly, no way, no
>>>how. They are in portrait format and my printer's paper guide won't move
>>>in to 3 inches and hold the cards up straight. So, I should be able to
>>>flip them around to landscape format and print that way. Right? But the
>>>only application I can find that will do that is Gimp (the templates are
>>>available as .png files as well as .pdf's). But if I flip the cards
>>>sideways in Gimp, my printer (Epson C-62) spits out nothing but raw
>>>postscript as text. Can anybody think of a good way to trick out either
>>>the .png or .pdf files and get them to print in landscape format on index
>>>cards?
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>>Have you considered looking for index cards that are perforated from
>>8.5x11 stock?  I've seen all manners of cards from postcards to business
>>cards.  I'm wondering if you might be able to locate the same in the 3x5
>>flavor.
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>I found some. They cost $22 for a small pack at Office Depot. That seems 
>totally outrageous when compared to $3 for a pack of 500 3x5 cards.
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>>Then again, if the images are single card images, you're pretty well
>>stuck with printing on single cards.  I would think the easiest solution
>>would be to figure out why your printer's not handling the landscape
>>format for printing.
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>That could be a long, long fishing expedition. But I may try a newsgroup 
>devoted to Gimp. My real hope is that I can use the pre-existing templates I 
>downloaded and not have to create my own. I think I'll try saving the 
>graphics in landscape format and see if that gets me anywhere.
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