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by TannerLD 2186 days ago
What do you mean “learning how to make postcards the exact way I want them”?
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I want to be able to put the images I want in the exact place that I want with cut lines and the like; I also want mail merge to work correctly.

I also want duplex color printing. I'm fairly close; Microsoft Publisher almost does what I want. I may end up writing a PDF generator or something.

I'm using A4 cardstock (for now) and the postcards need to be 6" wide and 4.25" tall. I print the image larger than that, so that I get full edge-to-edge printing.

I bought a paper cutter[0] to get the clean edges I want. Getting the mail merge to work how I want is a struggle.

Do you have suggestions? Any PDF generator I could feed images and restraints to and generate a printable PDF from zsh on my Mac, or WSL2 on a Windows machine, would be awesome.

[0]: https://hardwarefactorystore.com/products/17-heavy-duty-guil...