Lars Behrens 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 > One thing you're not saying is whether these posters are done as one large in-line printing process or whether it is made up of small components attached to a board of some sort. If it's the latter, LaTeX itself is by far the best way to go -- just pull out the formula, print on a separate page. Otherwise, as has been said, the ability to use LaTex in frames in 1.3.5svn is coming along nicely -- still you will have to learn formula creation in LaTeX. > 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 > You will probably get more out of the video that Tsoots did and put links to on the wiki: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Scribus_Video_Tutorials#Creating_bullet_lists > > 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? > See above for LaTeX, but otherwise 1.3.3.10svn is the best bet. IMPORTANT: you will not be able to import a file created in 1.3.5svn into 1.3.3.10! (but reverse is Ok) Do NOT use 1.3.4 -- just too problematic, all of the fixes have gone into 1.3.5.svn. Also read info on 1.3.5svn - it requires qt4.
Overall, I would suggest starting small (maybe just one), since anyway you go there is a learning curve with Scribus as you get used to its approach to these kinds of projects. Once you get the hang of it, I think you will find that so many things become much easier to achieve professional-looking results. Greg
