opieters / business-card

A business card in LaTeX.

Business Card

Example:

How this business card was designed, is explained in this blog post.

Requirements

• Recent TeX installation (tested on a 2017 one)
• XeLaTeX
• Font Awesome
• Fira Sans

It is also possible to use this Docker container:

docker run \
    --rm -it \
    -v `pwd`:/tmp/src accupara/business-cards \
    /bin/bash -c 'cd /tmp/src/src ; xelatex front.tex;'

Installing Dependancies on Ubuntu or Debian

sudo apt install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-extra

Building Documents

Build the front and back sides with XeLaTeX:

xelatex src/front.tex
xelatex src/back.tex

SVG Files

LaTeX is not equipped to handle SVG files directly. A conversion to a PDF file is needed. This can be done using an external tool such as Inkscape:

inkscape --without-gui --export-area-drawing --file=logo.svg --export-pdf=logo.pdf

License

GNU GPLv3. See LICENSE file.

© 2017 Olivier Pieters

business-card's Issues

Docker image to create business cards

Hi Olivier,

I love what you've created here and I thought I'd help in the best way I know: Make it easier for others to use your source.

I took the instructions you've written to set up LaTeX, fonts, etc. and made a Dockerfile and an image on Docker Hub.

Usage:

docker run \
    --rm -it \
    -v `pwd`:/tmp/src accupara/business-cards \
    /bin/bash -c 'cd /tmp/src/src ; xelatex front.tex'

Hope this helps,
-Yuvraaj

SVG import.

First I want to say nice work!

Second, having ensured all packages are installed on my system, the front builds perfectly, but building the back (with xelatex) gives an error about not finding the logo. I've used this on the github source and get the same failure. How do you import the logo.svg?

Unreadable QR code

I recently tried to include a vcard, too, and found your example. I basically ran into the same problem described here: Problem creating a proper qrcode with vcard info. When running your examples, I saw that this is also the case here:

business-card/src/back.tex

Lines 52 to 66 in 8f0c03b

	\node[anchor=south] at (helper qr)
	{\qrcode[level=M,height=\qrheight]{BEGIN:VCARD
	VERSION:3.0
	N:John;Doe;;Mr.
	FN:Mr. John Doe
	TITLE:CEO Doe Enterprises
	ORG:Doe Enterprises
	PHOTO;VALUE=URI;TYPE=JPEG:https://johndoe.com/path/to/jpeg/images.jpeg
	TEL;TYPE=MOBILE:[phone]
	EMAIL:[email protected]
	URL:https://johndoe.com
	REV:2017-29-01T13:52:43Z
	BDAY:19880310
	ADR;TYPE=WORK,PREF:;;2 Some Avenue;Anytown;SF;11111;USA
	END:VCARD}};

I suggest you also switch to:

\qrcode[level=M,height=\qrheight]{BEGIN:VCARD\?VERSION:3.0\?N:John;Doe;;Mr.\? <more> \?END:VCARD}

Font Awesome not found

After forking and making some changes, I cannot get my card to compile. The following error appears which makes me think that there is a .sty file that should be included:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
! fontspec error: "font-not-found"
! 
! The font "FontAwesome" cannot be found.
! 
! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
! 
! For immediate help type H <return>.
!...............................................  
                                                  
l.45 \newfontfamily{\FA}{FontAwesome}

The consensus here is that the file doesn't need to be in the same directory and that normally TeX will do the right thing. However, because I am using BasicTex, is it possible that not everything I need is included?

If I explicitly include a copy of the file, the error referenced in the title of that issue results and my code still produces an error.