[wplug] posters with linux?

[Robert Ball]

Make an image, and send it over to www.zazzle.com.  They make posters 
fairly cheap, and all you need is an image of what you want to print.  
(you can even SELL what you make)  The materials they use are good quality.


-Rob

Scott F. Kiesling wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:54:25PM -0400, Doug Green wrote:
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>>Hi all-
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>>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.
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>>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??
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>>I'm sure that I'm not alone in needing "poster making" software. What 
>>have other people done?
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>I've used OpenOffice.Org for this, using the presentation
>software just as you describe for powerpoint. I export it to
>a pdf and it prints OK at the Pitt print shop (one Kinko's place
>had a problem, but they still had the problem when i did it
>in powerpoint...and it was Kinko's). 
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>SFK
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