What's driving me (and them) insane is the scientists using OOo or Power Point for creating A0 posters for conferences. It is true, printouts will be a nightmare (the ps driver will print, one half of a picture twice)
for formula creation Your formulas will be formidable, can you create in Dia / inkscape and insert as pictures Scribus works well and you can save as a pdf, print and be happy cheers Samuel India On Nov 30, 2007 1:43 PM, Lars Behrens <lars.behrens at pi.uka.de> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm working in a physical institute here. > > What's driving me (and them) insane is the scientists using OOo or Power > Point > for creating A0 posters for conferences. > > So I'm thinking of introducing the physics to Scribus as a poster creation > application, but I'm not sure if Scribus is yet far enough for that. > > What concerns me is: > > * Formulas > > As far as I can see, there is still no possibility in the actual version > of > Scribus (SuSE 10.2 here, Scribus 1.3.3.4-22) for formula creation, how > about > the tex frame thing? Fiddling around with OOo to create formulas won't > seem > very attractive to the scientists. Any other tips? > > * Lists > > Is this still the only way to create lists: > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_create_lists_in_scribus_1.2x > Not sure, if the guys will dig that or if it will seem too complicated to > them... > > * Undo/redo > > In the actual version this is still not satisfiyng... > > * Any other thing, which I still don't see but which will show up when > time > gets too short for a workaround :-) > > So my question to you guys is if you have any hints for me. Should I take > the > effort or is that too risky (I don't want to have 15 people attempting to > tar > and feather me two days before the next conference because they don't get > their posters done). > > How about the newer versions of Scribus are things better there, so that > an > installation of a newer version would be worthwhile? > > TIA for your input! > > Cheerz Lars > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20071130/7fb1ee28/attachment.html
