On 2009-06-19, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thursday 18 June 2009 08:58:38 pm Daniel Joshua Stark wrote:
>> Dear All,

>> I was wondering if LyX can handle making posters. 

It can. 

> Personally, posters are the last thing I'd use LyX for. I'd use Inkscape or 
> Gimp. The prime benefit of LyX and LaTeX is consistency throughout the 
> document -- just what you don't need in a poster.

This might be due to a different sort of poster. I wouldn't recommend LyX
for an advertisement poster, but have successfully used it for a poster
presentation at a scientific conference -- there you have far more formal
restrictions and a choice of document classes that produce decent results.

Beeing able to re-use parts of the article in the conference proceedings
is a real plus.

I used a homegrown a0poster-kh.layout together with a custom package
a0poster-kh.sty based on the a0poster.cls extension a0poster-kh.tex by
Karsten Held
http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/theo3/Comp/hp750c/computing_hp750c_A0.de.shtml

Nowadays (with 1.6.x) I'd write the layout using insets instead of styles
for the boxes.


Günter

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