Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-14 Thread norseman
NoOp wrote: On 11/13/2008 06:00 AM, Mike Scott wrote: James Knott wrote: ... So,all you need now is a cheap ink jet printer that'll handle 3M (10') sheets of paper. ;-) That's perhaps not so :-). Some printer drivers will automatically segment oversized output; all you need is a tube of

Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread Mike Scott
James Knott wrote: ... So,all you need now is a cheap ink jet printer that'll handle 3M (10') sheets of paper. ;-) That's perhaps not so :-). Some printer drivers will automatically segment oversized output; all you need is a tube of glue... -- Mike Scott Harlow Essex England.(mike

Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread James Knott
Mike Scott wrote: James Knott wrote: ... So,all you need now is a cheap ink jet printer that'll handle 3M (10') sheets of paper. ;-) That's perhaps not so :-). Some printer drivers will automatically segment oversized output; all you need is a tube of glue... Actually, I know

Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread James Knott
Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:21:31 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by NoOp to my mailbox: As others have pointed out - use Draw. This might be of interest: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_3.0_Feature_List [see: Maximum Page Size Enlarged for

Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread Graham Smith
As others have pointed out - use Draw. This might be of interest: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_3.0_Feature_List [see: Maximum Page Size Enlarged for Draw (300cm x 300cm)] 3m x 3m sounds interesting :-) Graham

Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 11/13/08 13:29, Graham Smith wrote: As others have pointed out - use Draw. This might be of interest: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_3.0_Feature_List [see: Maximum Page Size Enlarged for Draw (300cm x 300cm)] 3m x 3m sounds interesting :-) You can see a Draw

[users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-13 Thread NoOp
On 11/13/2008 06:00 AM, Mike Scott wrote: James Knott wrote: ... So,all you need now is a cheap ink jet printer that'll handle 3M (10') sheets of paper. ;-) That's perhaps not so :-). Some printer drivers will automatically segment oversized output; all you need is a tube of

[users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-12 Thread NoOp
On 11/12/2008 03:52 AM, Graham Smith wrote: It seems standard practice to create posters in PowerPoint ( at least it is at my University). As part of my subtle promotion of OOo I would like to provide some guidance on using OOo instead. Does anyone know of some readily available guidance

Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:21:31 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by NoOp to my mailbox: As others have pointed out - use Draw. This might be of interest: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_3.0_Feature_List [see: Maximum Page Size Enlarged for Draw (300cm x 300cm)]