: Designing a 3m flag banner for Australian charity I work for a charity a few mornings a week and am designing a few flag banners for them (3m in height). I've found a supplier and received

@Miguel516

Download Inkscape for starters, better way to handle vector documents than GIMP and as far as I read, the supplier is expecting this kind of file (vector one).

The template helps you to know exactly the proportion and guidelines (not the final dimensions) of the content and where can you put your info without taking any risk. If you were to use a bitmap format inside your design (JPG, PNG, TIFF, etc...) then you should indeed be careful about resolution and such, but since I read you will vectorise everything (which sounds logical) you really don't need to worry about resolution. You can end up with a file 30cm tall and it will print perfectly on a 3m or 30m banner.

Open the template in Inkscape, work on it, after finished, delete any guides or content that came with the template, export it to PDF and you're ready to go.

NOTE: MAKE SURE you are using pure vectors, if you need to vectorise bitmaps before, do it, theres a nice tutorial on how to do it using Gimp and Inkscape here: imgur.com/gallery/xL0Ba
Hope it helps mate.
Cheers.

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