Who has already created a poster for the A0 paper format using TeX ???
What is the easiest way of doing it and is there a style file for it ??
Where can I find information ???

Thanks for any help !

Peter Biechele

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: Who has already created a poster for the A0 paper format using TeX ???

        I have the same problem in A1. The poster is to consist of 9 A4
        pages, that have to be distributed over the A1 page and a large
        headline. Any help is appreciated.

        Thank You very much in advance.

        Folki
        folk...@cfalfa2.chfi.unipd.it
        jans...@rhrk.uni-kl.de

Yes Yes, me too, but for a0-paper!!

                Paul Ruf
                supge...@physik.uni-kiel.de

I have been monitoring this discussion, that comes up from time to time
on this newsgroup for a while now. Here is the essence I have drawn from
it (all the following is IMHO):

- for a poster, you'll need large fonts & large papersize,
large fonts can be generated using the times-package:
        \usepackage{times} ... \fontsize{20}{20}\selectfont
large papersize is posible using
\textwidth , \textheight, \setmargins (\usepackage{vmargin})

in order to render postscript with dvips, you can use the special
        \special{papersize=1189mm,841mm}
you'll have to include the papersize in dvips's config.ps:
in my experience, a line :
  @ a0 1189mm 841mm
will do.

- the more serious problem is, that you'll have to arrange text and
figures over the poster area in latex. I don't have a good solution for
this, either. IMHO^2, an a0-poster should be devided into columns, which
in turn should include the figures.
However, AFAIK, multicol can't handle floats. Thus, should ne1 have a
solution, how to make a good layout of textblocks and figure in multiple
columns (of different width, s.v.p.), please let me know.
The workaround I chose is to latex the individual columns, render them
to ps and than put them together in tgif
(http://bourbon.cs.columbia.edu:8001/tgif/)

HTH
rolf

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I did a A0 poster with LaTeX 2e recently.

Main steps were:

    1)  set up the right paper dimensions using the geometry style
        with 'dvips' package option
    2a) set up dvips for cm type 1 fonts (either BaKoMa or BSR), don't
        forget to use OT1 font encoding !
or  2b) use the PSNFSS package so LaTeX uses postscript fonts instead
        of computer modern
    3)  make a picture environment covering the whole page and place
        your contenst at the right places
    4)  run the dvi file through dvips and _check_ the result using
        ghostscript (GSVIEW  for OS/2 and Windows can display A0 format,
        ghostview on Unix won't)
    5)  send the final .ps - file to the printer

Some additional notes:

The 'graphics' and the 'color' package will allow you to resize, scale
and colorize elements on your poster.

The text parts on my poster were done putting the text in a rectangular
box and rescaling the box afterwards, easy way to get bigger fonts:

  \begin{lrbox}{\textI}
    \begin{minipage}{15cm}
       ... some text ...
    \end{minipage}
  \end{lrbox}

  \begin{picture}(...)
    \put(10,10){\fbox{\resizebox{30cm}{!}{\usebox{\textI}}}}
  \end{picture}

(One may also use \scalebox instead of \resizebox)

Hope this helps,
Hartmut
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