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On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Rob Beard wrote:
Hi folks,A friend of mine (well he's a friend and a customer) runs an online business creating wedding invitations, stationary and other such items. At the moment to do the wedding invitations they are using Microsoft Office 2000 with a custom designed template.
etc... Much snippage.You want to play with fonts, wizzywid, layout and formatting via web... and export to PDF for printing... Eww laser printed wedding stationery...
Well, good luck there... Not saying it can't be done, it obviously can, but how usable would it be? The closest I curently get to anything like that is editing wordpress articles or Google docs - and the editor they use it grossly slow on my workstation - all in Javascript and trying to do far too much.
Actually google docs isn't too bad and ca nexport to PDF - but limited to the fonts the browser has.
Personally, I find a lot of the wedding inviations I get to be really tacky - too many fonts, bad design and layout - even if it is printed on posh paper, it's still ugly.
I got my wedding stuff hand-printed.... Now, before you all go shouting "flash git", etc. I have to say it was done by a friend of mine who decided that hand printing would be his hobby that year.
I even gave him some artwork and he emailled it to a place that made up blocks for his printing press - next day return too. He used a 3 - colour process - silver, black and red.
So maybe suggest that your friend invests in a little hand printing press and advertises as such - I'm sure he could make an absolute fortune...
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