I have to disagree in this debate. I have found lyx a *superb* tool for making scientific posters! It gives a uniform look, as well as dealing with the proper formatting of legends and cross-references. Plus, it properly formats my bibtex references and places everything evenly distributed on an A0 layout. If information overflows, it means I have to reorganise my poster, not finger-paint layouts to shoe-horn items into the poster (that probably shouldn't be there anyway for the requirements of a poster).
It also means that I can re-use text and graphics from talks and papers that I've written in lyx. I use sciposter.cls, sectionbox.sty, multicol.sty and wallpaper.sty to generate posters with multiple columns, sectioned boxes and a background. I generate my plots with R and graphics with inkscape. On the other hand, I end up spending much more time fiddling about finger-painting with tools like scribus. Mateo. On Monday 22 June 2009, Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2009 02:43:51 am Liviu Andronic wrote: > > On 6/19/09, Les Denham <lden...@hal-pc.org> wrote: > > > What worked best for me is Scribus. > > > > A relevant discussion, and a nice overview by Les on "LyX vs. Scribus" [1]. > > Liviu > > > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg57576.html > > After reading that, it sounds like Scribus is the ideal tool for posters. It > sounds great for 8.5x11 flyers, and for folding brochures. And yes, most > short newsletters are extremely fine tuned, so it sounds great for those too. > > You know what else it sounds great for -- laying out the cover of an eBook. > I've been using Inkscape for that, but I might try Scribus just for fun. > > Thanks > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Recession Relief Package > http://www.recession-relief.US > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > >
