Software for assembling figures - (Jan/30/2014 )

hobglobin on Fri Feb 14 22:32:58 2014 said:

well for this you have also pdf and whatever formats I'd take with me (pps in earlier times for example)...and well if you have the money to buy Illustrator and the time to learn it efficiently it's surely better, but I don't have this, so powerpoint is an acceptable evil

 

Inkscape is totally free and a really really good alternative to Illustrator,very easy to use too.

Anyway - to add to the list of image editors - ImageJ.

Exactly, Inkscape is a great alternative. I understand people tend to use PowerPoint for posters, because it is the only program they ever used to make a coloured oval, but there are so many problems with that.

(and actually.. MS Office costs money too ;) )