Features Set of a Good Business Card Application
Business cards are very important in our life. They make people notice and and create a long lasting image of you and your business, to originate and maintain relationships and save the time and efforts to note down contact information.
Many applications for creating and printing visiting cards at home exist nowadays on different platforms. Let’s overview the features which are a must for the up-to-date business card maker software.
A lot of manufacturers sell label paper for cards printing. To help users work with the paper formats of the most of them, the business card maker software should have the paper formats list. And of course, easy navigation and convenient search options for such lists are a big plus.
This can be images for clipart and backgrounds, usually combined into image libraries. Also, most of the products contain pre-made templates. These templates make the card creation process really easy, allowing to finish your design in a few steps.
Ability to import address or contact data either from the built in database, or, what is even better, another application like Address Book, etc.
Integrated barcode generator becomes more and more important for business cards at present. Having QR Code and Data Matrix symbologyies, which are capable of storing large amounts of data, is preferable. You can encode urls and add them to your card, or even get all the contact information of a given person encoded in a vCard format.
Recently, the application started making available advanced technologies to their users, such as Google Maps service. It is really convenient to supply the image of the location on a map in addition to the text address.
Having advanced features at hand is also quite useful. Say, image editing options. The product allowing to transform, crop, noise, tile, change colors, make gray scale, add bright, contrast, tint, twirl, bump, pinch your images becomes more attractive to users. Or the text features like circular, or power text for making impressive text transformations along paths, custom fills, strokes, shadows. All this gives a great prompt to your creativity, and make the final result better.