Hello all I made a version of the GRASS poster in Inkscape. I tweaked a little bit the layout (just changed the position of some parts) and included Daniel's changes in English.
Since the zip file with the svg (14Mb) and the pdf (10Mb) is a bit big, I put in here: http://www.igc.usp.br/pessoais/guano/temp/grass_poster_A0_inkscape_svg_pdf.zip See what you think. best Carlos On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 05:49, Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am just commenting on the software. > > Inkscape is a vector graphics editor based on SVG (for single pages > currently), similar to Illustrator or CorelDraw (although those may also > support multipage documents). > > Inkscape, does not, per se produce large files if you stay with text and > vector graphics. The files can only get large if you embed a lot of raster > graphics. Embedding raster files can result in large files. > > Scribus is more a DTP software than a graphics editor, similar to InDesign. > > LaTeX is an entirely different beast with it's own strengths, best suited > for writing scientific papers and articles. I don't think it is very well > suited to design posters. > > For posters, flyers, clipart and vector graphics I would go with Inkscape, > for multipage brochures I would go with Scribus and for manuals I would go > with LaTeX. > > Btw: Inkscape can be used to produce and edit vector graphics that can > later be embedded in Scribus (as SVG) and in LaTeX (I think best as PDF or > PNG, or maybe also SVG in more recent versions). > > Andreas > > On Sun, October 24, 2010 12:35 pm, Milena Nowotarska wrote: >> Hi Carlos, Micha et al. >> >> Anyone who has a vision of a new catchy GRASS brochure, flayer or even >> video commercial [1] is kindly asked to stood up and join the GRASS >> Promotion Team [2]. >> We just gained a new contributor who is willing to proofread english >> and german documents, welcome Daniel! >> All the existing promotion materials are listed on the appropriate >> wiki page [3]. >> >> Carlos Grohmann wrote: >>>> I'm in, am I am comfortable with LaTeX, although maybe we could think >>>> on using some illustration program, like Inkscape to make the poster >>>> and folders. >> >> Does Inkscape produce large files? I am asking because we already have >> a very nice poster [4], translated to several languages, which weights >> about 9MB for each language. Since it needs to be updated for every >> GRASS stable release, Martin proposed to rewrite it in LaTeX to share >> at least the graphics. If you could rewrite it for one language, I can >> use the LaTeX layout and catch up with other languages. >> >> I think the software we will use for promotional materials is to be >> discussed. For sure LaTeX will be the lightest and good to deal with >> localization but it will not gain many contributors. For smaller >> materials than the poster we might use other solutions. >> Chip has proposed Scribus [5]. Since my knowledge of Scribus is that >> it exists, I am going to read & try and waiting for your opinions. >> >> [1] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass_movie_CERL_1987/ >> [2] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_promotion_team >> [3] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Promotional_material >> [4] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Promotional_material#GRASS_Poster >> [5] http://www.scribus.net/ >> >> Micha Silver wrote: >>> Hello Milena: >>> Maybe it's time for an article in the OSGeo Journal focusing on GRASS >>> for >>> Windows users? >> >> Good idea, I am thinking about that and actually I am writing >> something in Polish now. Some of the ideas might be true for the whole >> world, too. Would you mind to co-author? >> >> Best, >> Milena >> -- >> Milena Nowotarska >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska >> http://quantum-gis.pl/ || http://grass-gis.pl/ >> http://www.qgis.org/wiki/4._QGIS_Hackfest_in_Wroclaw_2010 >> _______________________________________________ >> grass-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user >> > > > -- > Andreas Neumann > http://www.carto.net/neumann/ > http://www.svgopen.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user > -- Prof. Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Geologist D.Sc. Institute of Geosciences - Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil http://www.igc.usp.br/pessoais/guano http://lattes.cnpq.br/5846052449613692 Linux User #89721 ________________ Can’t stop the signal. _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
