Re: Fwd: (scientific) poster

[John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Friday 13 June 2008 09:52:13 am Andrea Valle wrote:
> Concerning posters (at least that "graphic" category of posters):
>
> If you have to move a graphic element by hand in search of fine
> tuning (which is optical in design, helas, not computational) the
> only way in batch-processing based sw is to re-compile, many and
> many times.
> Such a process can be quite slow if you have a large format with
> high res images. So you pass a considerable part of your time
> looking and the console.
> This result in unfavouring fine optical tuning.
>
> So, the problem for me is not the result but the process.
>
> -a-

Agree in part. I like to use Scribus for graphics-intensive work but 
the file sizes can get out of sight.  But it's great for book covers.

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