On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > What to people use to make big posters? (Assemblage of various > PostScript figures and typeset text, collected in a huge > PostScript file ready to send to a large printer).
It's not strictly what you asked about, nor is it OpenSource, but Mathematica supports making arbitrarily large posters -- though you need to have tape and a razor knife along for the ride. If curious, a full description is in "Exploring Mathematics with Mathematica" by Theodore W. Gray and Jerry Glynn (1991, Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 0-201-52818-5) Pardon the bandwidth. Phil Mendelsohn -- Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math