[plug] Membership Cards was Update :)

[James Devenish]

In message <3F8B89E6.3010302 at leftclick.com.au>
on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:30:14PM +0800, Ben New wrote:
> My biggest question is, how are people going to put their names on their 
> tags, unless they have sodipodi, or some other compatible SVG editor? 
> Possibly we could have some sort of script that just plugs (!) the name 

LOL some good clean pun for the whole family! My thinking about these
things is always to give your users the least work. Furthermore, if it
is going to be linked in to financial membership then it would be nice
to have it notionally in PLUG's hands, not users'. My common suggestion
is to roll this sort of thing into a PDF, since most people can access a
PDF viewer or at least a utility to convert it into a printable format.
Furthermore, inserting a person's name into a pre-built PDF means that
the server needs not do any font rendering, etc. I would suggest
creating the badge as a PDF file with a public-domain font embedded in
it. Then, when someone asks for a badge, you simply fill in the blank
spaces as appropriate. The user then receives the PDF as normal and
prints it / stores it / rips the graphics out with xpdf. *However* one
thing to note is that the graphics for the current logo might be 72dpi
(not sure...have only seen the post-rendered PNG). It would be good to
preserve these at a slightly higher resolution in the PDF file so that
they print out nicely. Esp. important for greyscale. Therefore, using
PDF instead of PNG is good because it is possible that the PNGs would
get printed out at 72dpi by mistake (and, also, someone would need to
render fonts onto them).


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