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Petr Sojka: DPRPO-Poster Tech HowTo Masaryk University, 4. 4. 2012 Intro/Specifics Design Typesetting PDF Printing Presentation Summary Examples 0» OO OOOOO OO OOO OOOO OO OOOOOO From idea to the poster on paper © Content (Marked) - What? • Text, data, graphics (?accepted paper) © Form (Design) - How? • How to visualize, present content? • Size (travel), time or money (?color) constraints. • Attentative reading or not? © Typesetting (Apply Desing on Content) • Batch/algorithmic vs. WYSIWYG? • From T|=X to Quark/Corel, both extremes suck (long iteration vs. inconsistencies, no precision.) • Try several possibilities on examples, choose what suits best. © Print (paper size and type). © Delivery and presentation to the Reader(s). Petr Sojka: DPRPO-Poster Tech HowTo Masaryk University, 4. 4. 2012 Intro/Specifics Design Typesetting PDF Printing Presentation Summary Examples OO »0 OOOOO OO OOO OOOO OO OOOOOO Design thinker Petr Sojka: DPRPO-Poster Tech HowTo Masaryk University, 4. 4. 2012 Intro/Specifics Design Typesetting PDF Printing Presentation Summary Examples OO 0» OOOOO OO OOO OOOO OO OOOOOO Content and Desien gr © "No, Watson, this was not done by accident, but by design." — Sherlock Holmes © Having what, how? © Not to be absent! © Has to serve to convey the [main] message. © Should be covered in previous lectures (Malíková). 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(with frontends) © 3B2, InDesign © Inkscape, Scribus © QuarkXpress, CorelDraw © PowerPoint, Word © Engine comparison, pros and cons (layout, text, math, graphics, level of control) Petr Sojka: DPRPO-Poster Tech HowTo Masaryk University, 4. 4. 2012 Intro/Specifics OO Design OO Typesetting oo«oo PDF OO Printing OOO Presentation OOOO Summary OO Examples OOOOOO he Engine makes the difference ft* x*+% 11 x ft wftl o m a ^ i o i & & I 4- / Petr Sojka: DPRPO-Poster Tech HowTo Masaryk University, 4. 4. 2012 Intro/Specifics Design Typesetting PDF Printing Presentation Summary Examples OO OO 000»0 OO OOO OOOO OO OOOOOO The TfX wav © Front ends or directly. © , . © baposter class - relative positioning, templates (not yet in TeXlive 2011). © sciposter class - classics, many examples, font scaling options. © aOposter, tikz, beamer, ... © 'texdoc jmeno_baliku' Petr Sojka: DPRPO-Poster Tech HowTo Masaryk University, 4. 4. 2012 Intro/Specifics Design Typesetting PDF Printing Presentation Summary Examples OO OO 0000» OO OOO OOOO OO OOOOOO Tids and tricks © Positioning by picture environment in the footer. © The same fonts, color models (CMYK) in text and picture. © Pictures by various tools but finally in the [transparent] PDF. © The same fonts, color models (CMYK) in text and picture. Fonts embeded in picture PDFs. © Use make, prepare Makefile, with options stored/shared. © A3/ A4 printing. Petr Sojka: DPRPO-Poster Tech HowTo Masaryk University, 4. 4. 2012 Intro/Specifics Design Typesetting PDF Printing Presentation OO OO OOOOO »O OOO OOOO Summary Examples OO OOOOOO Prepress: Adobe's building CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW ADOBE BUILDING BUILT 1934 RESTORED 2001 Mario Ambra, Mayor Sally J. Lieber, Vice Mayor Ralph Faravelli Matt Pear Rosemary Stasek Mary Lou Zoglin R. Michael Kasper/.ak, Jr. Kevin C. 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