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-



On 13 Jun 2008, at 15:40, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

I have to say that for poster stuff where you have to control
visually the layout a GUI is not that bad.
So now I'm using ConTeXt for text-based projects (documents, books)
and Nodebox for visual related things (posters, presentations).

I am extremely happy using ConTeXt and TikZ/pgf
both for A0 posters as well as for video presentations.

-- 
Alan Braslau


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