Add Txt to greeting card in Pages

There are several "Greeting Card" templates in Pages' Template Chooser. All of them contain similar elements.

This is a document created by the Photo Greeting Card template in Pages 5.6.2. I've set the Zoom button (left end of tool bar) to 50% to get both pages of the document into the document window, then placed the mouse pointer near the upper right corner of the page, pressed the mouse button, and dragged a selection rectangle to contain or touch all of the elements and make their borders and handles visible.

Top Left: A text box, containing instructions. The instructions say to remove this box before printing, but you can replace the text in it and move it elsewhere on the card if desired. Th box is currently on the outside back of the card.

Top right:

The tilted photo is a placeholder. Paste a photo of you choice here to replace the one shown. Your photo will scale to fit the box, which is a mask, and hides the parts of the photo that will not fit. The handles let you resize and or reshape the rectangle.

The coloured rectangles behind the photo are shapes, filled with the colours shown. I notice my selection missed the reddish shape, so it is not selected, and no handles show. Use the Format inspector (click the Format brush, upper right) to change the colours to suit your needs.

The white "You're Invited" text is in a text box. You can replace that with your own text by Clicking twice in the box—once to select the box, the second to place the insertion point in the box and select the text. Enter your own text, which will immediately replace the existing text in that box.

Second page

This is the inside of the card.

Left side: This is empty, as is usual for greeting cards. If you want to place text here, yo could either drag the 'instructions' box down from page 1, or click the Text button above the document to insert a new text box, drag that box into position, and enter your text.

Right side:

There are two text boxes here, separated by a shape (line). Both text boxes contain styled placeholder text. Click on the box, click on the text, type to replace the placeholder with your own text using the Style defined in the placeholder.

Both boxes may be resized and reshaped as required.

Regards,

Barry

Hi Heath,

I wonder how much time would have been saved if you had included this image in your first post or in your response to my first reply.

As Ian surmises, this template is intended to produce two cards from a single letter size sheet of cardstock.

The template, as provided, has only a single page, and if used 'as is' is suitable for creating a pair of 'note cards', 'blank inside' to allow you to add your own message (by hand).

Modifying them to accept a typed message requires adding a second page to the template, and placing one or more pairs of Text boxes on that page, then filling the text boxes with your message(s).

After opening the template, click the Insert button at the left of the Toolbar and choose Page.

Pages will add a second (blank) page to the document.

Go to the second page, then go to the View menu and choose Show Rulers.

Place the mouse pointer in the vertical ruler at the left side of the document window. Click and drag right to drag a vertical guideline to the horizontal center of the page (5.5 inches on the ruler for US Letter size paper). Drop there.

Place the mouse pointer to the left of the 0 in the horizontal ruler. Click and drag down to the vertical center of the page (4.25 inches). Drop there.

You now have guidelines to placing text boxes in each quarter of the sheet (each half of the cards).

Place a text box in one of the quarters, Resize it an locate it to provide left and right margins similar to or wider than those for the picture and text on the front, then enter a short piece of text in the box and use the Text format inspector to center the text horizontally and vertically in the text box.

Duplicate the text box three times, then place one in each of the four quarters.

You will need to do some test prints to learn how to match the top to bottom direction of the Front of the card and the inside text.

Regards,

Barry

Hi Heath,

The greeting card template shown in your screen shot is (I think) intended to create two cards. The 'how to use' instructions (text box on the top right quarter):

HOW TO USE:
After printing, use the cut line to create 2 cards, then use the fold lines to guide folding. Remember to delete this box before printing.

It seems that the cut line is the vertical line, and the fold lines are the horizontal line. When printed, cut and folded you will get two cards (like tents) with a picture and text on the front page and blank inner pages for you to handwrite a message. The back page will also be blank.

If you want to type (and print) text inside the card, use the template suggested by Barry and print double-sided.

Regards,

Ian.

That template the second pages is the 2 inside pages of the card.

the order is

BACK | FRONT

INSIDE LEFT | INSIDE RIGHT

Printed back to back and folded down the middle makes your card.

If you ever want more pages just go:

Menu > Insert > Page

or duplicate one of the other pages.

Peter

Barry showed you the two pages.

The top page (Page 1) is outer 2 pages together side by side.

The bottom page (Page 2) is the twio inside pages side by side. Click in something on that page to be on that page.

As the instructions "HOW TO USE…" in the actual document say, you fold them down the middle to get your card.

Peter

heathcjb

The wasted time has been all of your own making, by making this a game of unnecessary 20 questions before finally springing on us that you are not talking about a Pages template, that it is in fact an Avery template:

heathcjb wrote:

I can format greeting card from Pages template with image, but cannot see how to add text. Help?

The problem is simply one of layout and has the same solution as you would have to do in Word. Which is work out where to place your Textboxes so they print on the correct side when passed a second time through the printer.

Firstly visualise what you want as an end result but making a layout on a piece of paper the same size as you card stock. Fold the paper as you would the final cards, then unfold it to make it flat again. Sketch on that paper what photos you want where and in what direction they are facing. The same with the text you want to include.

Having done that for both sides you simply reproduce the photos and Textboxes in the same positions as your sketch with the images and text facing the way they need to face once folded.

In your case there are two solutions. One that requires a second page layout and one that doesn't. Both give you two cards for each sheet of Avery card.

The one page solution (feed back in and the inside prints on the opposite side to the outside making 2 cards):

The two page solution (feed back in and the inside prints on the opposite side to the outside making 2 cards):

Peter

Hi Heath,

Get a piece of letter size paper.

Place it on your desk with one of the long edges toward you.

Pick up the short edge to your left, lift it, and bring it right to meet the short edge to your right.

Hold the two short edges together with your right hand, and press down with your left hand to make a sharp fold across the middle of the page.

You now have a single folded sheet, with the fold on the left and the open edges on the right.

With the paper still folded write "Front of Card" at the center of the half page in front of you.

Open the card again, and label the inside left and inside right parts.

Lift the right edge of the card, and close the card toward the left, leaving the folded edge to the right.

Label the empty half page as below.

Open the sheet of paper out flat again and examine the 'map' that you have created.

In the Template, this is Page 1:

And this is Page 2.

Regards,

Barry

Can you please explain exactly where you are not getting it?

You have multiple screen snaps, we have explained exactly where everything is FIVE times.

Can you please let us know what we have failed to detail?

Barry covered it in the very first post. Including the Textboxes, to type your greetings, that you seem unable to see or find.

...and Pages walks circles around Word for design, as the results attest.

Peter

heathcjb wrote:

…I can alter the text on front and back, but just cannot gain access to a place to enter text on the inside.....NO worries. I still have access to a PC and this is a piece of cake, 2 minute effort in Word with lots more design options. Hopefully Pages will catch up eventually.

Seeing as the O.P. can't manage the basics and thinks there are inadequate Templates in Pages, where else would he have got his template from (that he has never mentioned).

What's happened the last few days with all these posters? Did someone leave the gate open?

Peter

If you are an experienced computer user as you say, you should be familiar with the expression GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage out).

Ask the wrong question or mislead and the result is as good as the question.

Peter