[Gllug] Poster design software

[Alain Williams]

I have taken the job with my school P(T)A of producing posters for various events.
Nothing due to my (non existant) artistic ability but on the basis that I know about
computers and so must be good at that sort of thing -- wrong.

The first lot I produced with OpenOffice, well it kind of works, but won't let me[**]
overlap text with images and lots of things that I would like to do for posters advertising
the next PA fundraising event.

Can you recommend what s/ware I should use ? I would like to:

* Put some images in with the text
* overlap text with images
* Put text at greater than pointsize 96 (max OO allows)
* Have text at interesting orientations (eg 45 degrees)
* Text to have graduated colours (eg deep red at the top, fading out down each letter)
* Work on a linux box, it would be nice if a M$ version existed so that I could give others 'source'
* Generate an output format that I can share with others - another PA member has an A3 printer - I don't

[**] or I haven't worked out how

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Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
+44 (0) 787 668 0256  http://www.phcomp.co.uk/

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