Hi Zubin:
I just did what you described. For a conference, I created an A0 poster entirely in Inkscape. The process was pretty painless and I don't expect much trouble in having it printed. I am planning on taking it to the printer on Monday, so I can tell you afterwards how it went. For now, I just wanted to share a few things I noticed during the work on my poster.
*) I am in science, so I needed some figures in my poster. I produced the figures using gnuplot with the SVG terminal. There is a tiny problem, Inkscape does not colour the paths of the plot. So I had to set the stroke colour of the lines manually. It's no big deal, but might scare people, when they open the gnuplot figure in Inkscape and the lines are missing :-)
*) The text is apparently exported in PDFs as paths. This might be an advantage for printing, but increases the file size, if you have a lot of text.
*) If you export your poster to PDF for printing, most things (transparency, gradients, etc.) work as expected. Only a few things do not work (e.g. gaussian blur). So before using a particular design element, it might be a good idea to check the PDF export.
*) I have a lot graphical elements and a fair amount of text in my poster and, using the Cairo PDF export from Inkscape, the PDF is still only 1.3 MB, which I think is pretty good.
*) If you are using OpenOffice.org at some point (for figures or for putting together the poster), be sure to check the PDF export with your print shop. I once produced some figures in OOo and incorporated them into a Keynote presentation, which I exported as PDF. Everything looked fine on my screen and on the screen in the print shop, but on the printed slides the text came out all wrong (strange symbols instead of the correct numbers). They had to convert it the bitmaps and print it that way :-(
Good luck with your poster!
Cheers, Hannes
On 22 Mar 2008, at 18:27, Zubin wrote:
The final poster will be A0. Printing is not a problem. We have to submit an A4 version. -Z
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Adib Taraben <taraben.a@...2011...> wrote:
Zubin schrieb:
Hello everyone, This question would and should fall under the "very general" category: I have been using Inkscape for a while - but only to make small and simple graphics (I am a PhD student and I need to create figures every now and then). I now am faced with the daunting task of creating a poster. I have never done this before. Does anyone have any tips on how to make a powerful, yet beautiful and simple poster using Inkscape? In particular, if you have made a poster using Inkscape before, could you share your experiences with me? Any input would be helpful given that I know nothing about graphic design. I apologise in advance to those of you to whom this email doesn't apply. Thanks!
Hello Zubin, when you say poster, which size do you have in mind? You need to figure out who can print this for you (if you need to have it in one piece). The person who prints will give you the requirements (file- format, etc) You might end up using scribus for the file export. hth, Adib.
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