Some more praise:
We use Inkscape to make posters for scientific meetings. The ease with which we can create beautiful, unintrusive text boxes and flow charts is unparalleled. And of course cartoons of all sorts. I can't hardly believe we used to bring in PowerPoint for the task! those nightmarish days are over. Plus, Inkscape intergrates very well with the host OS, i.e. dragging and dropping images and text just works.
In this regard, I must mention that exporting to PDF is a big deal. Figuring out the exact dimensions of the poster relative to the final print is some sort of obscure magic for us, simple mortal users. With PDFs, printers (or their drivers) have zero problems to scale on the fly and thus generate perfect maximized print outs of our gigantic posters.
What surpises me, though, is that exporting to PDF seems to leave images uncompressed, resulting in 300+ Mb posters.
In short: congratulations! And keep at it! We take time to tell our visitors (at the poster, during the conference) how the poster was made, since they usually comment on how beautiful it looks (no kidding). Inkscape, Blender and ImageJ are always mentioned.
Albert
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Albert Cardona Molecular Cell Developmental Biology University of California Los Angeles Tel +1 310 2067376 Programming: http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~acardona/trakem2.html http://www.pensament.net/java/ Research: http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Hartenstein/