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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 2010 18:43:16 +0100 > Roland Tarver wrote: > >> Hi Folks :-) >> >> [OT] You will be pleased to know I handed in the essay which prevented >> me from attending the meeting yesterday....and guess what.....as soon >> as I handed it in, we got our next assignment!.... > > Haha! I know what that's like from both sides - as a student and as a > lecturer! :D > >> [back on topic]... >> >> Part of the new assignment is to create a poster! It _must_ be in >> electronic form. I will need to print an A3 version of the poster (to >> be used in a presentation), I will also need to print an identical A4 >> version of the poster (for submission with a 1500 word critical >> review). >> >> ...and so... >> >> Any suggestions for which program is best? > > My votes go to, in (my) order of preference: > 1) OpenOffice.org's Draw > 2) Inkscape > 3) Other > > In my opinion OOo Draw has the easiest-to-understand interface and can > produce some outstanding documents... however it doesn't *seem* to have > the level of features of Inkscape and the like. > > Inkscape can do pretty much anything DTP-wise that you chose to throw > at it... but if you've never used tools like it before you may find > some of the tools and options a bit confusing (Lord knows, I do!). > > As has been mentioned, both can export to PDF easily. > >> PS, the printing of the A3 version will be done at a copy shop of some >> sort, so potential file format incompatibility issues?? > > The copyshop should be able to accept/print PDF files. Indeed when I > spoke to the reprographics dept. at work (I work for a College of FE) > they said they *prefer* PDF over any other format (proprietary or > otherwise). > > Grant. > What fabulous people :-D I post one message, disappear for a bit, return and my problems are solved :-D hehe. To all who commented, thank you very much. OO Draw is already installed on my ubuntu machine. I have had a quick play about. It does seem intuitive. I think I will opt for OO Draw for the poster but explore Inkscape (thanks for the links Jon - book marked ;-)) for future use. I must be efficient with my time at the moment, so not having to go through much of a learning curve is good. Thanks again. Best wishes Roly :-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html