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Bruno Goncalves

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Jun 27, 2007, 5:41:26 PM6/27/07

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Dear All,

What tools are available to create scientific posters? I've been using Powerpoint, but MS Office's limited support for equation editing has been annoying to say the least (I usually end up making images of the latex equations and putting them in ppt).
Do you know of any better tools? Specially with LaTeX support?
Thank you!

Bruno

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Richard Karnesky

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Jun 27, 2007, 6:19:42 PM6/27/07

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There are various LaTeX poster classes that might be worth exploring.

Scribus (a free/open source page layout application) is definitely
worth a look. There is a google summer of coder on a project to add
math support:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Add_Math_Support
And it can already import EPS. It is much easier to treat LaTeXed
text as vector graphics in Scribus than in PowerPoint.

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Allen MacKenzie

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Jun 27, 2007, 7:57:38 PM6/27/07

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This is not a direct answer to your question, but it still may be useful...

I use a little donationware utility for the Mac called LaTeXiT. It will basically typeset formulas written in LaTeX into an image that you can then drag-and-drop into any application. I use it for Powerpoint (and Keynote) all the time, but I have also used it when (shudder) I have to write a document with equations in Word.

http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/latexit_en.php

I think I had something similar for Windows once upon a time, but I don't remember what it was called or where I got it.

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Bruno Goncalves

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Jun 27, 2007, 8:17:24 PM6/27/07

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Ah Yes... I created something similar online ( http://www.bgoncalves.com/online/latex/ ) to make up for PPT's shortcomings.. I was hoping for an integrated solution, though. Dragging images back and forth becoming somewhat repetitive.

Bruno

Pere

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Jun 28, 2007, 10:42:58 AM6/28/07

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Hello,

The equations editor of OpenOffice is quite good.

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dekay

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Jul 6, 2007, 11:15:59 AM7/6/07

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I would suggest Adobe Illustrator or any other page layout program for
doing the assembly though. Nothing beats PPT in usability, especially
for creating anything larger than a bullet point.

rickla

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Jul 8, 2007, 5:52:56 AM7/8/07

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Also not an answer to the question but what would be a sensible slide
size for a typical poster?

jefff

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Aug 20, 2007, 7:24:43 PM8/20/07

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I have used Omni-Graffle and Adobe Illustrator in the past with sucess.

J Rudick

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Aug 20, 2007, 7:58:53 PM8/20/07

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3 feet wide (high) by 5 feet long has been common for me. Typically
the host organization sets a standard though.

Tigran Khanzadyan

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Sep 7, 2007, 11:17:57 AM9/7/07

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Well in the past I've used PP to make posters, but now I'm doing it in
Apple Pages. Very efficient and easy to handle things. I've got this
idea from
the blog in http://macsingularity.org/.

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