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I have been designing a stamp album for my Ukrainian collection, mostly because I wanted to have descriptions of my stamps underneath them. I have finished pages from 1992-1999 and am currently in the middle of doing 2000. I figure it will take me a good six months to turn around and get everything through 2012 done. Then I can loop back and do the 1918-1919 releases.

I have been posting my pages on a web site I made just to host these files. I have posted both PDFs of my pages, and the original pictures and Scribus (Scribus is the DTP program I am using to create the files) files, so you can make your own changes.

The site is http://www.stamphacks.com

I have posted about this before, but I have completely redesigned the pages, and have gotten much farther along that I had previously, so I figured it deserves it's own post.

I hope someone else can make use of these pages.

What a huge amount of work but the pages look great.
Very generous of you to share.

Thank you for adding the picture. I should have thought of that.

Very nice job! I thought I was the only one on this planet making album pages using Scribus...

I am working with an USSR album for myself, with Swedish translations. Yes. A Sisyfos job, I don't even speak Russian. But 1923-1982 for stamps and 1971-1984 for "postcards with special stamp printed" (what's the English word?) is finished.

But your album is more beautiful. I don't use pictures at all.

My initial idea was to use Scott Catalog numbers for the stamps (I'm in the US). I contacted Amos and asked their permission to use their Scott catalog numbers in an album of Ukrainian postage stamps I was planning to give away for free.

Their licensing department replied telling me, that, even though I was giving the pages away for free, they consider my album a direct competitor to their own stamp album of Ukrainian stamps. Fair enough....

So, I figured, if I was going to give pages away for others to use, I need to have some way for people to identify the stamps. Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic alphabet. Getting stamps to match up to descriptions written in English would be a chore for anyone that can't read the Ukrainian language.

So I added in the pictures. And I thought the pages looked pretty good with the pictures there.

Scribus is working well for me. I wanted to find something that allows me to caption a photo on the top AND bottom, and I tried everything all the way up to Adobe InDesign. Since nothing did it, I decided to why not use Scribus. It's free, exports to PDF out of the box, and had pretty much all that I needed.

Very nice work indeed. By any chance do you print these pages, and if yes do you use any particular paper type?

Thanks

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I collect mainly Malta, Caribbean Islands, Soccer, Churchill & Lady Di

For my personal use, I am printing them out on 100% cotton paper. I don't print and sell pages, though that may be a future option if I ever get the whole album done.

Download for free, or I print them and mail them to you for the cost of paper, toner, and postage. Not even close to there yet...

Thanks for the update.

Actually I was just curious about the paper typically used when printing such album pages.

Regards

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I collect mainly Malta, Caribbean Islands, Soccer, Churchill & Lady Di

Just to resurrect an old thread, I now have 1992-2000 done and available for download on my web site: http://www.stamphacks.com

I just finished pages for 2001, if anyone is interested.

Great work you are working through this pretty quickly. Do you have any plans to do any other countries?

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Enjoy every minute

I was debating doing Ireland and I am definitely doing 21st Century US. I collect US, Ireland and Ukraine. I need to find a good source of descriptions for Irish stamps.

You know, the hard part is the descriptions. If I could get people to enter stamp information into my utility and email me the XML file, I can crank out a supplement pretty quickly...

I would be interested in helping you with the US stamp descriptions.

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Enjoy every minute

I will take you up on that when I have time to start US.

Ok, Ukrainain collectors, supplements through 2004 are done. Go get 'em!

http://www.stamphacks.com

The 2004 Ukrainian sheets are very nice. Excellent job.

Cheers,
Erik

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Enjoy every minute

2004 is the first year I managed to put the stamps in release order. I am emulating White Ace album pages to some extent, since they swing descriptions left and right as needed.

It also helps that I have written a number of Scribus scripts that let me flip descriptions right, left and middle with a single click.

Pages through 2006 are now done.

I completed my 2007 supplement Sunday night.

There is a PDF available in both US Letter and A4, as well as a Zip file containing an editable Scribus file with images.

Screenshot of page 1:



Link to the files:

http://stamphacks.com/wp/?p=370

Ukraine 2008 is done now. Starting with 2007, I started to make A4 versions of the pages. I plan to go through and make A4 versions of everything when I have the time to make it more accessible for non-US collectors.

I actually like the A4 page size and 4 ring binders better, but using A4 size would be a nightmare in the US. I don't even know where I could buy a ream of A4 paper.

Anyway, the 2008 supplement can be found here:

http://stamphacks.com/wp/?p=383

And here is a screen shot of Page 1 for the nozy:

Mods,

This is completely the wrong forum for this thread. I am not giving away any stamps, or asking for any. Please move this someplace more appropriate.

Everything through 2011 is complete now. I can now take a breather until the last of the 2012 stamps gets released by Ukraine. Then it's time to work backwards from 1991-1992 provisionals, and then all the stamps of previous Ukrainian governments.

All page through 2012 are now up. I can now take a breather and issue quarterly updates.

Great job, the pages are very nice

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I'm looking to trade used stamps and souvenir sheets of - Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Brasil, USA, Australia and AAT.