making posters in debian/kde

[Howard Gibson]

On Thu, 06 May 2004 11:11:55 -0400
Chris Aitken <aitken-BwLjziHGQLusTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I want to make a poster for my business. I've never used graphics 
> software. I've never used gimp and it didn't install with my beta sarge 
> (I guess because we went with kde instead of Gnome. I have OO. I'm 
> wondering what software (that I have) that is the easiest to make a 
> poster in. I don't know if I can do this in Kpaint, OO, or whatever. I 
> don't see a template for 'poster'. Someone did a music poster for me 
> once and there were jazzy fonts you could choose from, coloured boxes 
> you could move around -- that sort of thing. He might have made it on 
> Visio unless I'm confusing that application with another.
> 
> Chris

Chris,

   KDE should not be an obstacle for the GIMP.  As an alternate, take a look at Xfig.  This is a vector graphics program, so it should look good, even when you print large.

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