What apps can make a poster?

drxdev said:
At the beginning I use LaTeX, then I switched to Inkscape to do all my scientific publications. It is great to draw scientific infographics and enough text functionality to put text. However, now when after reading about scribus it seems like a good (better ?) alternative.
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(La)TeX, Inkscape and scribus are three different programs for different kind of tasks.
They could complement one another, they could in some cases solve the same task, but they do not substitute one another.

Annalesa said:
the poster
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How? With what app? You can tell us about your experience, then we also want to learn.
 
drxdev said:
At the beginning I use LaTeX, then I switched to Inkscape to do all my scientific publications. It is great to draw scientific infographics and enough text functionality to put text. However, now when after reading about scribus it seems like a good (better ?) alternative.
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Scribus is good but is not as much flexible as Inkscape to design. Most of the time I design in Inkscape and then I redesign it in Scribus; the way Scribus works is not very handy especially if compared with proprietary software on the same space.
 
Scribus is a layout package, much like InDesign and QuarkXPress of old. It's really good at putting all sorts of elements on pages and flowing text around them in sensible ways. Very useful if you want precise control over what goes where on each and every single page. Scribus is not an illustration or design package. The idea is that you take the output of things like Gimp and Inkscape as well as your text, and you combine all of those elements in Scribus. You could do that in LaTeX as well, but Scribus and LaTeX are philosophically different approaches to the same problem.
 
bvdw78 said:
The idea is that you take the output of things like Gimp and Inkscape as well as your text, and you combine all of those elements in Scribus.
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One could do it also by coding directly in postscript, perhaps with little AI help. I am coming to the conclusion that that is the best solution if one does not like bloat.
 
Coding in postscript.. intriguing. And well, ok, doable. In all my years I've never seen *ANYONE* do that outside some really interesting LaserWriter demo pages and it's not a very human-friendly language in my personal opinion. I wouldn't bother unless someone zipped me straight back to 1986 or something like that. Bloat just doesn't hit the same on modern hardware like it did back then.
 
bvdw78 said:
Coding in postscript.. intriguing. And well, ok, doable. In all my years I've never seen *ANYONE* do that outside some really interesting LaserWriter demo pages and it's not a very human-friendly language in my personal opinion. I wouldn't bother unless someone zipped me straight back to 1986 or something like that. Bloat just doesn't hit the same on modern hardware like it did back then.
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I do my letterhead and business cards in Postscript directly. I also generated Postscript from a table-making C program.
 
The Asymptote language seems quite interesting....
Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language that provides a natural coordinate-based framework for technical drawing. Labels and equations are typeset with LaTeX, the de-facto standard for typesetting mathematics.
A major advantage of Asymptote over other graphics packages is that it is a programming language, as opposed to just a graphics program.

You can even run it in your browser without installing it, using the Asymptote Web Application. Just enter the code
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Here is a gallery of what it can produce! And there is a port: math/asymptote
 
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