From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41680 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Fwd: (scientific) poster Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:05:33 -0400 Organization: Able Indexers and Typesetters Message-ID: <200806140905.33453.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <32B88F35-18FC-4B83-AF13-A6338D835CF8@di.unito.it> <200806131540.58747.alan.braslau@cea.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213460745 9775 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2008 16:25:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:25:45 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Jun 14 18:26:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K7Ya8-0002JL-Mx for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:26:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07BB1FA4C; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:25:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13832-02-9; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:24:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8CC71FE31; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:50:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 205591FE32 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:50:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07524-01-35 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:49:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from QMTA02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.24]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055091FE31 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:06:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from OMTA14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.60]) by QMTA02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id dnLJ1Z0091HpZEsA206200; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:06:52 +0000 Original-Received: from c-69-143-86-77.hsd1.md.comcast.net ([69.143.86.77]) by OMTA14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id dp6q1Z0031g71ml8ap6ruH; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:06:52 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=SVddlm-L9QYA:10 a=1qaRyfD6-eMA:10 a=U4BriyfjAAAA:8 a=qMoymCQNAAAA:8 a=e_DkmeUKAAAA:8 a=E-mlvgo2-llBTmjAqh0A:9 a=BOecBik24GXZRxcwD4EA:7 a=BLKc08wngIgsgz94yM8CZBXzISgA:4 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41680 Archived-At: 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. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________