KivaDawgs
Introduction
Tired of wandering through the
grocery store, trying to find cards which were, well,
tasteful and good to look upon? And had just the right
greeting inside?
Bored with sending ephemeral,
low-quality electronic cards?
Take a look at our new range of
KivaDawgs. You download them, print them on your own
printer, write what you want inside them and then mail
them to friends and family. Highlighting everyday
ocurrences (!) illustrated through their impact on a
lovable extended family of dachshund characters, they
differ from our KivaCards
series, which use fine-art photographs as their
images.
The files are password-protected -
to open and print the file, you'll need to buy the
password, which you can do electronically through
Kagi's
secure transaction scheme: you order online via their web
page (using the link in the table below), and they email
you a unique password. Having bought the password, you
are free to make as many prints as you want at no extra
cost.
Printing
Your Cards
You can print your KivaDawgs on
anything that your printer can handle, although best
results will generally be obtained with glossy,
photo-quality paper. You may find it convenient to buy
paper specially designed for greetings cards - for
example, Hewlett-Packard Glossy Greetings Card stock,
which is pre-creased for convenient folding and comes
with envelopes of the correct size. For some occasions,
we find printing on normal 8.5x11 inch glossy
photo-quality paper works fine (although you must fold
the paper yourself, and the inside of the card will
likely be decorated with the elegant little trademarks
that the vendors like to print on the back of their
paper).
You can print greetings inside the
card - to do this, you should first create the greetings
you want using the program of your choice and then print
it on the back of the card. When it's printed, you can
run the card through your printer a second time to print
the card front from Acrobat Reader. You may need to
experiment to find out which way round to put the card
back through your printer...
With any ink-jet printer, color
matching can be an issue. KivaDawgs are provided with
colours correct for an sRGB display or printer.
Experience suggests that letting your printer driver
treat the card as a colour photo should provide good
results, but be prepared to experiment a little with your
printer driver settings and colour matching
options.
Freebies
We offer one
free download in our
KivaDawgs series; download it (216KB) to see what a
KivaDawgs card will look like, and to practice printing
and colour-matching. Over on our KivaCards page, we have
another freebie which provides
a couple of helpful hints
(344KB) - one hint shows how to add an insert to a card,
and the other provides information on how to build an
envelope for your Kivacard (or for any other card formed
by a fold on 8.5 x 11 paper)
And you can now use our preview
images as images in your own electronic greetings cards,
for free. Click on the title of the card you'd like to
use, and you'll get the preview. You can then
drag'n'drop, or copy and paste the preview image into
your outgoing email. See our helpful(?) instructions
here
for more info.
Terms and
Conditions
- We offer a
range of downloadable KivaDawgs products. Each may be
freely downloaded. The ownership of the intellectual
property inherent in each product remains with its
owner (normally us) and is not transferred to you by
download nor by purchase. You are licensed to use the
downloaded products for any personal, non-commercial
purposes. You may not re-distribute the products in
any form (save that you may print the products on any
media convenient and provide such printed copies free
of charge to anyone you see fit) nor by any means
unless you guarantee that recipients of such
redistributed products are bound by these terms and
conditions. If you wish to use the products for
commercial purposes please contact us either
electronically at feedback@kivadesigngroupe.com
or at
the physical mail address given below. Some of our
products are free, but the same terms and conditions
prevail.
-
- By
downloading any Kiva product you are agreeing to be
bound by these terms.
Each KivaDawg
product is copyright © Kiva Design 2000 and/or
others and/or other dates as appropriate. All rights
reserved.
KivaDawgs
In the table below, you can see the
titles for each KivaDawgs card.
If you click on a title, you'll see
a much preview image (these vary in size from 20KB to
75KB). This image is of significantly lower
quality than the image on the card; you can judge the
card quality - and the general shape of the cards - by
downloading the Bill and Jo card; it's completely free
(but still protected by copyright).
When you click on a Download Card
link, your browser will start downloading the card. If
your browser has the Acrobat Reader plugin (so you can
see downloaded .pdf files in your browser window), you
must tell it to save the file rather than showing
it to you in the browser window: on a Mac, in Netscape,
you hold the option key down when clicking on a link to
do this. (If you don't do this, the browser will ask you
for the password to the file before you can download).
Practice with the free card.
Each card you download will have
the same general organisation as the free card - the back
will describe the card, and the front will have the
drawing and title.
Once you've downloaded a file, go
to our online purchasing page by clicking on the Buy
Passwords link in the table, and purchase the password
for the file; you must have a credit card to do this.
Please be sure to order passwords for the all the files
you've downloaded since you won't be able to open them
without one; of course, you can buy passwords many at one
time.
You'll need Adobe's Acrobat Reader
to view (and print) the cards. You'll need version 4.x;
if you don't have it, click on Get Acrobat
