Software Rec for Large Print

[James Drabb]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 18:25, Clint wrote:
> I've got a job that I need to do in-house to save some money. The output 
> needs to be a 16"x20" print (that I hope to get done at Kinko's since I 
> don't have a printer in that large of a format) with a black background 
> and white letters in a basic font that Fedora comes with. The problem 
> is: I'm out of my element for this task.
> 
> I tried OpenOffice, but the largest size is 96pt, and just is way too small.
> 
> I tried Gimp, but the largest font size there was 72pt, and thus too 
> small. My Grokking the Gimp text didn't have any advice (that I could find).
> 
> That makes me believe I'm not thinking about the problem correctly, and 
> need some advice!
> 
> This box is a fully-loaded FC1 machine with yum config'd, but I don't 
> know what software to even start searching for, and need some idea of 
> what tool/software I really should be considering. The resulting 
> printout is going in a nice frame for a string quartet. I like the look 
> of what I did in Gimp, but it just isn't big enough.
> 
> I sure could use some advice here. Is there a software package that is 
> available via yum (or otherwise) that fits the bill for creating a large 
> -- really large -- document/font size? Am I doing something wrong in 
> Gimp and it can do the job?
> 
> Thanks,
> Clint

You should be able to type the font size in.  Anyway, there are better
tools.  Use an SVG applications.  I find http://www.inkscape.org/ to be
an excellent piece of software.  You add text and scale it to any size
you want.

Jim Drabb
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James Drabb JR
Senior Programmer Analyst
Davenport, FL USA