We know Schools, each one of them have different ideas.

                                          They have their own designs, formats and the contents and want their students to carry one of the best ID cards.

 

How exciting it would be know, now you can design an ID card for your school by your own and even change the design and format every year as you wish?!

YES, School Admin allows you to do all of the above.

 

Lets quickly know, 'How?'

 

An example for id card generated by SchoolAdmin is shown below

 

Pick idcard.odt from Open office.

For more details and basic steps on how to fetch an odt visit Customizing Reports

An ODT for id card looks as shown below

Now Lets see how to customize the ID card.

 

Step1: Pick idcard.odt from OpenOffice.

Step2: Clear or delete the contents in the ID card. you will get an empty template.

Step3: To set the size of the page. Click  on format menu --> page,

 

On Clicking Page option a pop up will appear as shown below.

Step4: Set the width and height of the page i.e; size of the id card.

 

Once the size of the ID card is set in the odt,

Step5: Go to Insert-->picture–>From File

Step6: Browse and choose the background image for the ID Card.

Once you insert the image it looks as shown below

Step7: Adjust the image by dragging the tiny green boxes on the boundary to fit the template as required.

Step8: Set the image properties by right clicking on the image as shown below.

Step9: Draw tables to insert or fit your contents in place

Step10: Insert number of rows and columns required

After inserting the tables the ODT will look like this:

Step11: Insert LOGO. ie; copy paste the LOGO of your school from original ODT.

Make the following settings to the image LOGO, as the table, logo and background image might overlap each other.

Step12: Now type the contents of ID Card

Step 13: Hide the table Borders.

Once after hiding the border the ODT will look like this.

Step14: Save and Replace the ODT in Open office.