[wplug] posters with linux?

[Doug Green]

Hi all-

I need to produce posters that illustrate my work for scientific 
meetings. These posters are usually about 48" x 36" (or greater), 
output with a large-format printer. In the past I have used MS 
Powerpoint, resized a "slide" to meet my specs, and incorporated text 
boxes and illustrations as needed. It's a sloppy process since 
powerpoint really wasn't made for poster creation. Text is sub-optimal, 
figures are frequently not aligned, and images are always poor. I then 
used a package for LaTeX, which gave beautiful text, but required way 
WAY too much effort. It's also not optimal for a number of other 
reasons... for example, you're limited to standard page sizes (such as 
a0poster), it's a lot of work to make a new template, and there a big 
limitations on making certain tables within column formatted posters.

I found this package called "Scribus" (see: http://www.scribus.org.uk/  
) which claims to be an open source DTP (desktop publishing) app for 
Linux. Has anyone used this, or have any info about it? Could this be a 
solution to oversize printing needs??

I'm sure that I'm not alone in needing "poster making" software. What 
have other people done?

Thanks,
Doug



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