AlbumEasy

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AlbumEasy - Introduction

I developed AlbumEasy because I wanted an easy to use layout program for designing custom stamp album pages. There are a number of good album layout programs tailored to philately, most of them being fairly reasonably priced. However, I find that laying out pages using a mouse can be fairly time consuming. I wanted a quicker method. AlbumEasy is the result. It takes a simple text file containing a description of the album pages as input, and generates a PDF file as output. Click on UnionSouthAfrica.pdf. for an example of an AlbumEasy generated file.

AlbumEasy is free of charge. I developed it for my own use, but as I felt that other stamp collectors might find it useful, I have made it publicly available.
The first version of AlbumEasy was a command line application, which worked for me. However I tend to forget that many people are not familiar with the command line. I have therefore decided to upgrade AlbumEasy so that there are GUI and command line versions of the application for both Linux and Windows.

Requirements

In order to use AlbumEasy you require:

• A PC running Windows or Linux
• A printer
• The freely available Adobe Reader
  
• A text editor; notepad would work, or your favourite word processor. In the later case, please remember to save your files as plain text (*.txt).
  I highly recommend that you obtain a full featured text editor. There are a number of very good editors available, both free and commercial, that would be more than suitable.
  A few names spring to mind;
  • Edit Pad
  • Programmer's File Editor
  • Edit Plus 2
  • etc.

History

V1.0

• Initial version.

V2.0

• Added GUI versions for both Windows and Linux. The Windows version has a standard installation program.
• Added an additional command; STAMP_ADDX which allows for two lines of text under each stamp.

V2.1

• Fixed the font encoding, now supports European characters with accents and diacritical marks.

V2.2

• Added ROW_ALIGN_TOP and ROW_ALIGN_BOTTOM commands. These specify whether a row of stamps with unequal heights, should be aligned on the top or bottom edge.

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