Catweazle
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Posts: 103
What I collect: Chatham Islands (NZ), Molokai (US), Lord Howe Island (AU), Greenland, GB, some Australian Pre-decimals for good measure et hoc genus omne.
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Post by Catweazle on Jan 28, 2024 11:52:45 GMT
What do you use?
I know that there is Microsoft Publisher, for example, and I've been playing around with that lately.
I knocked something simple up on Apple's iPages, using the rulers on either side as a guideline to help resize the stamps accordingly before figuring out where they might go on the page.
What other alternatives are there, and what might be the easiest option to use to piece together something of a 16 page / one frame exhibit? Ideally for Apple Macbooks, but my work computer is Windows so I guess I could stick with that if I had to.
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stainlessb
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qaStaHvIS yIn 'ej chep
Posts: 4,903
What I collect: currently focused on most of western Europe, much of which is spent on France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain Queen Victoria
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Post by stainlessb on Jan 28, 2024 15:26:18 GMT
Take a look at Scribus. It is free open source and quite versatile, but there is a learning curve. It operates on all platforms
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Ryan
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Posts: 2,749 
What I collect: If I have a catalogue for it, I collect it. And I have many catalogues ....
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Post by Ryan on Jan 28, 2024 18:09:23 GMT
What other alternatives are there
If you have a good long stretch of time available, take a look through our thread entitled Show your DIY album pages - it's extensive, over 1000 posts in the thread! There are lots of different ideas, both in simplicity of layout (some are basic, some are elaborate and remarkably well done) and in the software used to create the pages. You'll find a lot of users of the AlbumEasy package, and there's another thread specifically for that. The author of that program is a member of our forum so there's usually a quick answer available to any question that pops up. Ryan |
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clivel
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Posts: 385
What I collect: Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Rhodesias, South Africa, Swaziland, Israel to 1980, Ireland predecimal, Palestine Mandate
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Post by clivel on Jan 29, 2024 7:56:30 GMT
You'll find a lot of users of the AlbumEasy package, and there's another thread specifically for that. The author of that program is a member of our forum so there's usually a quick answer available to any question that pops up. Ryan
Never having exhibited myself, I am not sure what facilities are needed for creating exhibition pages or how well suited AlbumEasy would be for this task.
That being said, if anyone has any feature requests that would be helpful for preparing exhibition pages, I would be keen to try and add them to AlbumEasy. Clive
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Post by classicalstamps on Jan 29, 2024 10:09:37 GMT
Apple Pages is very easy to work with, and something I would recommend for your scenario. I created my Albania album using Apple Pages. Some example pages:     I have since switched to Affinity Publisher, which is even better. I have posted various pages in the DIY thread linked above, if you want to see more of my work. |
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dorincard
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Posts: 1,622
What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Jan 29, 2024 18:06:59 GMT
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