Michael Haren’s Wassupy Blog

Printing vcard/vcf files for holiday cards

in technology and code

Apple’s Contacts app is surprisingly weak, especially when it comes to printing, and I’m reminded of it every December when I begin to send Christmas cards. All I want is a simple, printed list so that I can hand-address a bunch of cards and cross them off my list as I go. The default (and only) output is poor for this purpose so I made a page that does a much better job:

a screenshot of a web page that shows a bunch of contact cards

And if you use a browser other than Safari, it does a nice job with print layout, too, which was the whole point :):

a screenshot of a web page that shows a bunch of contact cards, print-preview mode

The processing is all in the browser, so it’s quick and private (your VCF file never leaves your device).