I had a look at creating a simpler QSL c ... / 2014-04-27

I had a look at creating a simpler QSL card which I could print with my own printer. I still want 4 cards per page. The earlier qsl card designs are nice and an inspiration for when I get around to having cards printed. But I want a few things different, like a mention of my amateur radio website http://pd4kh.idefix.net/, on the card. And space for notes about contacts. And when I use my own printer and heavy enough paper I want to print 4 cards per A4 page. Having 4 the same cards on one page meant wanting to use \LaTeX and a \newcommand so I define the card once and use it four times all of them on the same printer page. I found A QSL card backside made in LaTeX - DJ1YFK's Ham Radio Stuff which has a nice QSL card design in \LaTeX which I could use with some adjustments. This \LaTeX file defines the page size as 14cm*9cm landscape, the official size of a QSL card. I first tried changing this to an a4 page with 4 14cm*9cm \fbox in it, but this didn't give me the right result. I now create 4 pages of 14cm*9cm and create an A4 page from this with:

$ pstops -pa4 "4:0L@1.0(30cm,0)+1L@1.0(30cm,14.85cm)+2L@1.0(40cm,0)+3L@1.0(40cm,14.85cm)" qsl.ps qsl-4.ps

Which has about the right result: 4 cards on one page. No frames around the cards yet.

I use the coloured Veron logo, but it prints fine in grayscale on my black and white printer.