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Hi,

I am discovering Drupal, and Ubercart. I am looking for a solution to sell business cards printing. The different templates of the cards can be seen as different products I suppose, but how can I make it possible that the user can customize the fields and ask for a preview?

Any suggestions and feedback is welcome.

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Re: can I use ubercart to sell printing of business cards

I think I see where you wanna go.

So, you have x-number of business card templates and the idea is that people can enter their contact info, get a preview of the finished card and then order it?

As of now there is no "step-by-step" product construction that I know of in übercart. This shouldn't be too hard to implement, but you'll definitely need a custom module to handle this.

How complex this gets really depends on how complicated you want the card temlpates to be. The easiest would be to just create very strict temlpates that have x-number of lines on a fixed posistion on the card and simply paint the text on top of the template without any real graphics-intensive calculations. If you want people to choose their own fonts, sizes, color and placement of text on the cards then you're looking at something totally different Smiling (Then you'll need some kind of spreadshirt-like editor to make it accessible enough).

This post probably didn't give you too much of a helping hand, but to sum it up: ûbercart can't really do this by default, so you'll need to develop a semi-advanced module Smiling

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Thomas Kulvik
Ny Media AS
www.nymedia.no

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can AJAX be the solution?

Hi, my first ubercart testshop is configured. I'm now looking for a solution to use AJAX technology to create a vistaprint-like solution. i.e. after filling out a text field (product attribute) the product image adjusts, reflecting the entered text on the image

Has anyone experience in this?

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Peter

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Using GD library

I made a system similar to vistaprint and iprint, using iframes and GD library, It´s a lot of work. some poeople made it using flash.
I think this is a custom funtionality for drupal.

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Hi Sounds really interesting.

Hi

Sounds really interesting. Can you let me have a url to the site?

Mike