numbercards is a simple program. It just create simple number cards which you might see often on posters found in some scientific conference.
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You have to install Python. Follow the instruction at http://www.python.org/getit/
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Now, you can install numbercards with pip or easy_install. reportlab will be installed automatically when you install
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Install pip or easy_install, follow the instrcutions below
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Install numbercards with the following command in Terminal (Command Prompt)
pip install numbercards
or
easy_install numbercards
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usage: numbercards [-h] [-v] [-c NCOL] [-r NROW] [-p PREFIX] [-s SUFFIX]
[--no-trimmark] [--xmargin XMARGIN] [--ymargin YMARGIN]
[--pagesize {B4,LETTER,B5,B3,B6,LEGAL,A1,A0,A3,A2,A5,A4,B2,A6,B0,ELEVENSEVENTEEN,B1}]
[--orientation {landscape,portrait}]
[--font-family FONT_FAMILY] [--font-size FONT_SIZE]
[--face-color FACE_COLOR] [--stroke-color STROKE_COLOR]
[--font-file FONT_FILE]
numbers outfile
Create bunches of simple number cards. Useful for creating number cards for
posters in conferences. (C) 2013 hashnote.net, Alisue
positional arguments:
numbers minimum number of cards you need
outfile output filename (PDF file)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
-c NCOL, --ncol NCOL the number of columns (Default: 2)
-r NROW, --nrow NROW the number of rows (Default: 2)
-p PREFIX, --prefix PREFIX
prefix of the number text
-s SUFFIX, --suffix SUFFIX
suffix of the number text
--no-trimmark do not draw trim marks
--xmargin XMARGIN horizontal page margin in mm (Default: 8.4)
--ymargin YMARGIN vertical page margin in mm (Default: 8.4)
--pagesize {B4,LETTER,B5,B3,B6,LEGAL,A1,A0,A3,A2,A5,A4,B2,A6,B0,ELEVENSEVENTEEN,B1}
page size of the output (Default: A4)
--orientation {landscape,portrait}
orientation of the paper (Default: landscape)
--font-family FONT_FAMILY
name of the font family. see the help of `--font-file`
option. (Default: Arimo-Regular)
--font-size FONT_SIZE
font size (Default: 120)
--face-color FACE_COLOR
comma separated RGB color (0-1) for font face
(Default: 0.1,0.1,0.1)
--stroke-color STROKE_COLOR
comma separated RGB color (0-1) for trimmark (Default:
0.6,0.6,0.6)
--font-file FONT_FILE
file name of external ttf font. It is strongly
suggested to specify this when you want to use
different font family while reportlab font searching
system is a little bit buggy