Its been I believe two years or better an I am still not able to print a membership card because the program has not been mixed. My card in the members part of this site still states that I have been a member of the AAW since 2007 which is incorrect the proper year is 1995. All I heard is they are working on it for the last 2 years. Gee, maybe someone should replace the person who does the programing with a person who is more qualified to fix this problem. Help someone..........
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this is the first time that I have heard of a membership card that I can recall
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Bill - Why do you need a membership card?
I don't have one. Don't recall ever needing one. - John
Bill - Why do you need a membership card?
I don't have one. Don't recall ever needing one. - John
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Bill, you are kidding right? "Gee, maybe someone should replace the person who does the programing with a person who is more qualified to fix this problem. Help someone.........."
I would not want to make light of your concern but if this is the biggest administrative issue AAW has I am grateful.
I would not want to make light of your concern but if this is the biggest administrative issue AAW has I am grateful.
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When I got into woodturning and joined a local club and shortly thereafter joined the AAW, I thought that it was really a nice touch to be a card carry member. However, I never was "carded" when attending a club meeting or going to a woodworking store so I eventually quit carrying it because I already had too many cards of various kinds occupying the limited real estate in my billfold.
My membership card must look different than yours because it does not show any dates other than my current membership period which goes through the next three years. As far as printing is concerned, the entire page is a JPG image with your membership information superimposed over the card area.
The easy (relatively speaking) way to print the card is to hit the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard -- the button after F12. Open Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, or other image editor and open a new window and then do a CNTL-V to paste the image in the new window. Crop it down to the size of the card and then finally change the pixels per inch print size from 72 to 138. This will make the card 3.5" wide by 2" tall which is the standard business card size. Print it on whatever type paper you wish and then scissor it to fit your wallet.
If you want a blank card that you can fill in as you wish then right click anywhere on that page and then in the pop-up box choose "save image as". Pick a place to save it and accept the default name or give the file a different name. Open the file in your favorite editor, print whatever text you wish, crop, scale the print size to 138 pixels per inch, save, and then print.
I looked at the page source code and saw some errors. Apparently the arrangement of the card has changed because the text layout was commented out and then redone with different position information for each of the pieces of text. The problem was that the new text information referenced an undefined css element in the new code. That is not a show stopper, but it means that the text defaults to whatever is the default of your browser.
Apparently the code hasn't been added yet that would enable printing by a more reasonable method than what I described above.
It would be much nicer if the file were a scalable PDF rather than a lo-res JPG, but it ain't there yet.
How about combining the address label of the cover jacket of the AW journal with a membership card printed on the jacket for more efficient use of that piece of paper.
My membership card must look different than yours because it does not show any dates other than my current membership period which goes through the next three years. As far as printing is concerned, the entire page is a JPG image with your membership information superimposed over the card area.
The easy (relatively speaking) way to print the card is to hit the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard -- the button after F12. Open Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, or other image editor and open a new window and then do a CNTL-V to paste the image in the new window. Crop it down to the size of the card and then finally change the pixels per inch print size from 72 to 138. This will make the card 3.5" wide by 2" tall which is the standard business card size. Print it on whatever type paper you wish and then scissor it to fit your wallet.
If you want a blank card that you can fill in as you wish then right click anywhere on that page and then in the pop-up box choose "save image as". Pick a place to save it and accept the default name or give the file a different name. Open the file in your favorite editor, print whatever text you wish, crop, scale the print size to 138 pixels per inch, save, and then print.
I looked at the page source code and saw some errors. Apparently the arrangement of the card has changed because the text layout was commented out and then redone with different position information for each of the pieces of text. The problem was that the new text information referenced an undefined css element in the new code. That is not a show stopper, but it means that the text defaults to whatever is the default of your browser.
Apparently the code hasn't been added yet that would enable printing by a more reasonable method than what I described above.
It would be much nicer if the file were a scalable PDF rather than a lo-res JPG, but it ain't there yet.
How about combining the address label of the cover jacket of the AW journal with a membership card printed on the jacket for more efficient use of that piece of paper.
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I think that Bill is mainly referring to the fact that if you were a member before 1/1/2007 the card states that your starting membership date is 1/1/2007. The AAW has said that it was going to be fixed soon and that has been going on for a couple years. It shouldn't be that hard to get the correct join date. I suspect that there are people who are very proud that they are members for a lot longer than since 1/1/2007.
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Why do you care about the join date? - John
Why do you care about the join date? - John
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OK, I started in 2004 so I guess the problem is that it doesn't show the start date.
When you get a bit older, I think that either one of two things might happen:
- You worry about not remembering dates (among many other things).
- You don't care that you can't remember.
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Bill, if you send an email to AAW Board member, Stan Wellborn, stan@woodturner.org he can help you with your question/problem. Stan brought up the topic of membership cards in a recent Board meeting, so there may be a change in the way the cards are handled.
Part of the "fix" with the membership cards has to do with revamping AAW's website, which is in progress. Some of the small problems won't be addressed until the bigger task of redoing the website is finished. I believe the staff is aware of the problem and would like to get it fixed, too.
And you can always send a querry directly to the Operations Director, Phil McDonald. Sometimes a direct approach works the best. phil@woodturner.org
Good luck getting the correct date onto your membership card.
Betty Scarpino, Editor, AW
Part of the "fix" with the membership cards has to do with revamping AAW's website, which is in progress. Some of the small problems won't be addressed until the bigger task of redoing the website is finished. I believe the staff is aware of the problem and would like to get it fixed, too.
And you can always send a querry directly to the Operations Director, Phil McDonald. Sometimes a direct approach works the best. phil@woodturner.org
Good luck getting the correct date onto your membership card.
Betty Scarpino, Editor, AW
Thank you, Betty, thats what I was looking for a explanation to what the problem was. I had contacted Linda last year sometime in the summer and she had explained part of it didn't realize the whole AAWsite had to be fixed to correct the problem. Thanks again for explaining.
Bill Noce
Bill Noce