making posters in debian/kde

[Anton Markov]

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Hi,

You can (and probably should) use more than one program to create a
poster. The choice of program depends on the complexity of the poster.

I find that OpenOffice.org Draw is perfect for any other layout work. If
you just want to use text, shapes (even some 3D ones) and other "simple"
graphics (by simple I mean no glows, special shadows, etc.)
OpenOffice.org Draw should do it just fine. You can use The Gimp to draw
more complex shapes or edit Photos to use in the poster and then add
them into the OO Draw document.

If the poster is going to be mostly photographs, or use lots of
color/shades, it may be best to do it in The GIMP. Beware: at even at
print resolutions (300+ DPI) a raster file can get very large (in the
Gigabyte range) if the poster is big (like over 50cm in size). So I
would recommend doing as much as possible in a vector program like
OODraw or XFig or whatever else.

As far as fonts go, you will just have to search for them on the net or
something. OO Draw will use any standard fonts.


Chris Aitken 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.

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