poster margins (probably a stupid question)

[Michi]

Dear all,

For a conference poster, I have to set page margins of 44mm left, top
and bottom. Nobody knows why, but the corporate design dictates that.
I haven't used LaTeX for some time, and this is my first try with
beamer poster, so I'm a bit confused on where and how to set the
margins. So far I have adapted the style file and it works quite nice.
Apart from the margins, though.

Probably there is a simple solution to that problem - help, anybody?

By the way, beamer poster looks really promising so far. Thanks for
that nice package!

Michi

[Philippe Dreuw]

Hi Michi,

one (dirty) solution might be to edit the beamerposter.sty file and to
adapt the corresponding paremeters of the geometry package, i.e.
remove hmargin and vmargin and simply write margin=44mm

beamerposter can handle this as well, but only left and right margin:
\setbeamersize{text margin left=44mm}
\setbeamersize{text margin right=44mm}

Another possibility might be to use pdfnup with a negative trim value, i.e. try:
pdfnup --nup 1x1 --trim "-0.44cm -0.44cm -0.44cm -0.44cm" poster.pdf

Best,
Philippe

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[Thomas Deselaers]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:41, Philippe Dreuw <dr...@cs.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Michi,
>
> one (dirty) solution might be to edit the beamerposter.sty file and to
> adapt the corresponding paremeters of the geometry package, i.e.
> remove hmargin and vmargin and simply write margin=44mm
>
> beamerposter can handle this as well, but only left and right margin:
> \setbeamersize{text margin left=44mm}
> \setbeamersize{text margin right=44mm}
>
> Another possibility might be to use pdfnup with a negative trim value, i.e. try:
> pdfnup --nup 1x1 --trim "-0.44cm -0.44cm -0.44cm -0.44cm" poster.pdf

Just take care, 44mm is 4.4cm not 0.44cm. ;-)

t.

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[Philippe Dreuw]

indeed :-)

[Philippe Dreuw]

hi michi,

I just tried it with a double DIN-A0 poster, it works fine. Simply use:

pdfnup --nup 1x1 --trim "-44mm -44mm -44mm -44mm" poster.pdf

Best,
Philippe

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[Michi]

Wow, that were some quick answers, thank you!
the pdfnup - solution ended up in a pdf that was corrupt, so I ignored
it and went for the dirty solution with editing the beamerpost.sty-
file.
That does what I wanted it to do, and, as the time is pressing, I'll
edit the content now.

And after the conference, I'm going to try a clean solution :)

thank you very much, and all the best,

Michi

On Apr 1, 11:54 am, Philippe Dreuw <dr...@cs.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> hi michi,
>
> I just tried it with a double DIN-A0 poster, it works fine. Simply use:
>
> pdfnup --nup 1x1 --trim "-44mm -44mm -44mm -44mm" poster.pdf
>
> Best,
> Philippe
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Philippe Dreuw <dr...@cs.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Thomas Deselaers <desela...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:41, Philippe Dreuw <dr...@cs.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
> >>> Hi Michi,
>
> >>> one (dirty) solution might be to edit the beamerposter.sty file and to
> >>> adapt the corresponding paremeters of the geometry package, i.e.
> >>> remove hmargin and vmargin and simply write margin=44mm
>
> >>> beamerposter can handle this as well, but only left and right margin:
> >>> \setbeamersize{text margin left=44mm}
> >>> \setbeamersize{text margin right=44mm}
>
> >>> Another possibility might be to use pdfnup with a negative trim value, i.e. try:
> >>> pdfnup --nup 1x1 --trim "-0.44cm -0.44cm -0.44cm -0.44cm" poster.pdf
>
> >> Just take care, 44mm is 4.4cm not 0.44cm. ;-)
>
> > indeed :-)
>

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