[Scribus] Scribus for Scientific Posters?

[Duleep Samuel]

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
>
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