"Card Makers" Topic

All,
can anyone point me in the direction of a good card making app or program? I'm using it for unit cards for various game systems. Its one of my most common wargaming tasks and I've used up my patience with MS Excel and its constantly changing sizes when printing…

Last TMP topic entry on the subject I could find was 2012, so anything more recent?

Not sure I have a favorite – I have used Magic the Gathering, Pokemon and General TCG Card Generators

A word processor won't work for this?

I use PowerPoint (free Libre office version) seems weird choice, but it allows you to create fixed sized objects and easy to create curved corners and so on. Each object/card can then have bullet points, little images or whatever you need

John

Local print shops that have modernized have this ability. I use my local shop for many things.

I use multideck. free for Windows and Mac. works well once you get used to it

I used MS Publisher, set for Avery pre-perforated business cards sheets. I filled out the template for each Unit Roster Business Card, copied/pasted it in each card boxed area. I saved this template.

When I need to print one off, I fill out each Unit Roster according to the figures it represents; load a pre-perforated sheet into the printer tray, then print, fold, tear apart.

I used to try and keep the printed cards, for later use, but that was such a hassle… Now, I save the filled out Roster Sheet files, on hard disk on my computer. When I need them for a game, I print them out on regular paper, then I cut them apart with either scissors, or a paper cutter.

I used 3-ring binder, clear plastic, business card holder sheets, inserting my printed cards into them, putting these in binders for future use. That was all just too cumbersome (Green? Yes, but way too much effort, too difficult to use, as my figures get parsed out to varying Unit sizes and rosters from game to game, so the cards proved less than ideal, as they limited my adaptability for future games…).

The freeware program that emulates MS Publisher, is Scribus. It is close to MS Publisher, but not quite all there. I am slowly converting my Publisher 98/2002 files over to Scribus, and/or Open Office Writer programs -- slow going, would rather pay for the latest Publisher, as it will update all of my old files to the new format, effortlessly, with minimal, if any, reformatting required… Cheers!

Ditto to Sgt Slag except I used MS Word and I put the printed cards into single plastic sleeves for players to use in Congo games. See here for example of unit and character cards I made.
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I bounce back and forth between LibreOffice Writer and MS Word. I set up a template for the page size and margins needed then construct each card as a one-off. And sometimes work within a table of fixed dimensions.

My cards have to come out 2x3.5" or 4x3.5" and my printer uses 4x6 cardstock, so I trim down with a rotary blade paper cutter.

CeruLucifus, if you get the Avery cards I linked, above, you can print 10, 2" x 3.5" cards, at a time -- 10 cards per sheet. I used to put together 10 Unit Rosters, per sheet, then print, fold, and tear apart.

To be honest, I now just print unit rosters on a regular sheet of paper, and hand the uncut sheet to the controlling player. The cards got dropped/misplaced, so this helps avoid that. Each player gets one sheet with their entire command of figure units listed. All of the planning, and the execution, is done by me, the referee, before I even print the Unit Rosters. Cheers!