[GRASS-user] Re: GRASS Promotion Team

[Carlos Grohmann]

Hello

I was looking the GRASS Poster and I think it will be a lot easier to
make and keep it updated using Inkscape[1]. Since it is an
illustration program (like CorelDraw or Illustrator), it can handle
any page size (A0, A1, etc) and can produce large files. The native
file format is SVG[2], but it can export as PDF, high-res PNG or many
others. The poster I presented in the last Brazilian Geological
Congress was made in Inkscape and the resulting pdf is about 50Mb.
The SVG file itself is usually small, since the images are only
llinked. This makes easy to distribute the 'source'. Also, it has way
more tools for creating nice graphics than OpenOffice Impress or
LaTeX.

I will make a version of the poster in Inskcape and then we can see if
it fits our needs.

Carlos

[1] http://inkscape.org/
[2] http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/



>
> 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.



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