Event Poster Maker is web app created to facilitate rapid creation of DSC event posters while leveraging reuse of community contributed templates.

Below are steps required to run the app on your local development evironment.

You will need the following installed on your system.

1. git
2. node
3. Angular CLI

1. Open your terminal or command prompt and cd to the location you'll be cloning the project in

   cd ~/
   

2. Clone the project

   git clone https://github.com/DSCKenyattaUniversity/event-poster-maker.git
   

3. Change directory to the cloned project

   cd event-poster-maker
   

4. Install all the projects dependencies

   npm install
   

5. Build the tools needed for subsequent commands to work correctly.

   npm run build:builders
   npm run build:schematics
   

6. Run local development server

   npm run start
   

   This starts a development server on port 4200, so you can launch your browser and navigate to http://localhost:4200/

   Alternatively, run npm run build to build the project. This should compile the project to a folder dist/event-poster-maker. Copy the contents of the folder to your local webserver's docroot.

To create new poster templates, execute the command below on your terminal at the root of the project. It will prompt you for some information ie. the orientation.

npm run create-poster-template

If you did run npm run start, go to your browser and should see a blank template added in the templates list. Go to the directory where the above script created for your template and make modifications to the poster.svg file. You can do this by hand or using a Vector Graphics Software like Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator.

Event Poster Maker is licensed under MIT License. See LICENSE for the full license text.

Contributions are welcomed via Pull Requests especially contributions for poster templates, documentation and tests.