A friend of mine wrote this Python script which we have used for a few conferences and the output was really nice. http://code.google.com/p/event-badge-generat

A friend of mine wrote this Python script which we have used for a few conferences and the output was really nice. http://code.google.com/p/event-badge-generator http://code.google.com/p/event-badge-generator It addressed many of the issues mentioned in the post(names on both sides, displaying the name prominently, font customization and adjustments based on name length etc).