Making Imager Business Cards

This is especially addressed to all you non-faculty, non-staff folks out there:

Have you ever been embarassed when some slimy sales weasel hands out his or her business card and you have nothing to hand back in return?
Are you longing for one of those free laminated baggage tags the airlines give out in return for a business card?
Have you missed out on a free lunch at a nice restaurant because you have nothing to throw in the bowl for the weekly drawing?
Are books in your library becoming dogeared because you never have a bookmark handy when you need one?

Well, despair no longer! Now, there's "imagercard"!

Thanks to the previous work of Alain and John, I've put together a shell script that writes a PostScript file, suitable for printing, that produces an array of not one, not two, but ten monochrome card images suitable for Xeroxing onto heavy stock.

Here's all you do (assuming /imager/local/generic/bin is in your path):

% imagercard >wherever.ps

Imagercard pulls what information it needs from "whoami", "finger", and "userinfo", but you can override this. The full syntax of the command is

imagercard -l login -f full name -p phone number -t title

title defaults to "Researcher" and the other stuff defaults to the stuff from "whoami", "finger", and "userinfo". In any case, always preview the output before printing.

Imagercard comes with no guarantee whatsoever, but if you have any problems with it, I'd certainly like to hear about them.

Last updated by Bob Lewis on 13 Jan 94.