Lost pet poster
Help them find their way home.
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Example
Example: a lost cat poster on US Letter with 10 tear-off phone strips
Pepper, a grey tabby (fictitious), slipped out of the house on Sunday, October 11. Her owner makes a poster with these settings: Lost, a landscape photo of her (4:3), four lines of text, (555) 014-2876 for the strips, 10 strips, in colour, US Letter.
- At the top, a red banner 30 mm tall with LOST in capitals. Below it the photo, as large as the room left allows: 123.6 × 92.7 mm (about 4.9 × 3.6 in), undistorted, in a red frame.
- Her own text replaces the blank lines to fill in by hand (Name, Breed / colour, Last seen, Special features) and is centred under the photo at a type size of 8 mm (about 23 pt).
- The four lines, none of which wraps: “Pepper, grey tabby cat, 3 years old”, “White paws, white tip on her tail”, “Last seen October 11 on Maple Avenue”, “Shy and microchipped: check your shed”.
- Under the text, “Please call: (555) 014-2876” in bold. Near the foot of the sheet, a band of 10 strips, 60 mm tall and 19.2 mm wide, with the number printed up each one and dashed lines to cut along.
| Strips | Width of each strip on US Letter | On A4 |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 32.0 mm (1.26 in) | 31 mm |
| 8 | 24.0 mm (0.94 in) | 23.25 mm |
| 10 (the default) | 19.2 mm (0.76 in) | 18.6 mm |
| 12 | 16.0 mm (0.63 in) | 15.5 mm |
lost-pet-poster.pdf, one page. Without text of your own the same photo prints a little smaller, 109.2 × 81.9 mm, above four labelled lines to fill in with a pen. Choosing Found prints FOUND in green, “Owner? Please call:” and found-pet-poster.pdf.
How it works
- Choose lost or found and add a clear photo of the pet.
- Fill in the name, colour, where and when it was last seen — or type your own text.
- Add your phone number for the tear-off strips, print several and put them up nearby.
Frequently asked questions
- What should a lost pet poster say?
- A clear photo, the name, breed and colour, special marks, where and when the pet was last seen, and a phone number in large print.
- Where should I put them up?
- Near where the pet was last seen: lampposts, shops, vets and animal shelters — and ask neighbours to check garages and sheds.
- I found a pet — can I use it?
- Yes — choose found; leave out a detail so the owner can prove the pet is theirs.
- How many tear-off strips should I choose?
- 6, 8, 10 or 12, side by side in a band near the foot of the page, 60 mm tall on US Letter and 64 mm on A4. On Letter a strip is 32 mm wide with 6, 24 mm with 8, 19.2 mm with 10 and 16 mm with 12 (on A4 31, 23.25, 18.6 and 15.5 mm). Choose more strips where many people pass; a phone number fits on any of them.
- Does a wider strip make the phone number bigger?
- Not for a phone number. It prints in one line up the strip, as large as the strip’s length allows: (555) 014-2876 comes out at a type size of about 6.4 mm (18 pt) on US Letter and about 7 mm on A4, with 6 strips or 12. Fewer, wider strips help a long email address, which is set on two or three lines: pepper.home@example.com prints at 7.2 mm on 6 strips and 5.8 mm on 12 (Letter).
- Is anything uploaded?
- No. The photo and the text stay in your browser; the poster is made on your device.