Day Two

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I was asked to design the credentials for those lucky enough to travel with Senator McCain on his "Mac is Back" tour through New Hampshire. And I also wrote that I chose to use Apple's Pages i-App instead of InDesign, Quark Express, or any other high-end graphics and page-layout application.

Choosing Pages proved to be a really good decision because, as it turned out, almost 200 people will be on the "Mac is Back" tour. Had I used those "better" apps, I am not sure how I would have embedded all the names, though I'm sure there is a way. But Pages supports linking text implementing that is real easy. So, embedding names onto each card was reduced to copying the whole names text list and pasting on the first text field on the first badge and watching as all of the info cascaded into all of the other badges. Wow! That was easy.

Still, as easy as getting the attendee info onto the cards, something I thought would take the most time, it was the several designs and redesigns of the badges that ended up taking up all of my second day of volunteer work.

Tomorrow, I am going to try to finish the Quicktime Streaming video feed so that everyone can see a live video feed of the McCain New Hampshire HQ and the constant effort that goes into reaching out to voters.

But now, it's time for sleep...