Poster package for LaTeX

[Darcy]

Hi,

What do you recommand as a good package for making conference posters with
LaTeX ?
Google told me about this one : http://www.brian-amberg.de/uni/poster/ which
looks nice. But it seems there is no definite answer (as opposed to beamer for
the presentations).

Thanks


--
Alexis Praga

[Robert Heller]

I've always just used the article document class when creating posters.
Here is a style file I have used:

---------------begin scifiposter.sty----------------------------
\renewcommand\Huge{\@setfontsize\Huge{30}{36}}
\newcommand\Giant{\@setfontsize\Giant{50}{54}}
\textwidth=7in
\textheight=9in
\oddsidemargin=-.25in
\evensidemargin=-.25in
\topmargin=-.5in
%\marginparwidth=1.25in
%\parskip
\pagestyle{empty}
\nofiles

---------------end scifiposter.sty----------------------------

And here is a typical poster I made:

---------------begin Carnival_Of_Souls.tex--------------------
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{picinpar}
\usepackage{../scifiposter}
\begin{document}

\begin{centering}
{\Huge \textbf{The Wendell Free Library Presents \\ the next in the series \\
of Science Fiction / Horror movies:\\
\textit{Carnival of Souls}\\
Saturday, December 15th, 2012 7:30PM\\}}

\vspace*{.25in}

\end{centering}

\begin{window}[0,l,\includegraphics[height=4.5in]{Carnival_Of_Souls.jpg},]
{\Large Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around in a car with two
friends. When challenged to a drag, the women accept, but are forced
off of a bridge. It appears that all are drowned, until Mary, quite
some time later, amazingly emerges from the river. After recovering,
Mary accepts a job in a new town as a church organist, only to be
dogged by a mysterious phantom figure that seems to reside in an old
run-down pavilion. It is here that Mary must confront the personal
demons of her spiritual insouciance.

\vspace*{12pt}

There will be a short (1/2 hour) film before the movie: ``Rocky Jones,
space ranger, part 1. Beyond the curtain of space'', from the 50's
Rocky Jones TV series.}\\

\vspace*{.5in}

\end{window}
\vfill

This is the next in the monthly series of Science Fiction/Fantasy and
Horror/Monster movies at the Wendell Free Library, located in the
center of Wendell, MA. Free Admission. For more information about the
Wendell Free Library visit its web page at www.wendellfreelibrary.org
or call 978-544-3559.

\end{document}

---------------end Carnival_Of_Souls.tex----------------------


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> Thanks
>
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> --
> Alexis Praga
>
>

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[Joost Kremers]

Darcy wrote:
> What do you recommand as a good package for making conference posters with
> LaTeX ?
> Google told me about this one : http://www.brian-amberg.de/uni/poster/ which
> looks nice. But it seems there is no definite answer (as opposed to beamer for
> the presentations).

i've used beamerposter for this in the past, which is based on beamer.
it produced a pretty nice looking poster, although i had to modify the
theme files a bit, because they contained stuff that shouldn't be
hard-coded (such as the university logo).


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[Nicola Talbot]

There are some alternatives listed at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=poster

My flowfram package comes with a sample poster (sample-poster.tex) which
should be installed with the documentation but can also be found at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram/samples/

Regards
Nicola Talbot
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Creating a LaTeX Minimal Example:
http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/minexample/

[Peter Flynn]

On 12/05/2012 09:21 PM, Darcy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What do you recommand as a good package for making conference posters
> with LaTeX ?

It depends what you mean by "making conference posters".

In the natural sciences this appears usually to mean "making a
giant-size 'article' class 1-page document", so the problem is one of
font sizing and page-sizing. I have colleagues who say that the a0poster
class is good, but I have not used it myself.

In the humanities it seems to mean "designing and formatting a poster
from scratch" -- nothing specific to do with the 'article' class layout
or appearance at all. This means designing the poster and then
implementing it in LaTeX, so I assume a0poster or anything else which
provides suitably large default font sizes will do.

///Peter

[Robin Fairbairns]

i don't know about natural sciences, but the posters that get made (and
displayed around the walls here) look like instances of a competition to
create ever fancier designs. (sure, we're a computer science
department, but the techniques are well-publicised.)

sure, a0poster (with textpos or similar) can do the job, if you really
must, but lots of packages and things are available (and covered in the
faq answer on the topic).
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
sorry about all this posting. i'll go back to sleep in a bit.

[Peter Flynn]

On 12/06/2012 11:25 PM, Robin Fairbairns wrote:> Peter Flynn

<pe...@silmaril.ie> writes:
>
>> On 12/05/2012 09:21 PM, Darcy wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What do you recommand as a good package for making conference
>>> posters with LaTeX ?
>>
>> It depends what you mean by "making conference posters".
>>
>> In the natural sciences this appears usually to mean "making a
>> giant-size 'article' class 1-page document", so the problem is one
>> of font sizing and page-sizing. I have colleagues who say that the
>> a0poster class is good, but I have not used it myself.
>>
>> In the humanities it seems to mean "designing and formatting a
>> poster from scratch" -- nothing specific to do with the 'article'
>> class layout or appearance at all. This means designing the poster
>> and then implementing it in LaTeX, so I assume a0poster or anything
>> else which provides suitably large default font sizes will do.
>
> i don't know about natural sciences, but the posters that get made
> (and displayed around the walls here) look like instances of a
> competition to create ever fancier designs. (sure, we're a computer
> science department, but the techniques are well-publicised.)

That's very reassuring. But many are still just blow-ups of p.1 of an
article-class document.

> sure, a0poster (with textpos or similar) can do the job, if you
> really must, but lots of packages and things are available (and
> covered in the faq answer on the topic).

Indeed. We did this one for a project here:
http://research.ucc.ie/celt/poster/celtposter.pdf

///Peter

[Marc van Dongen]

On Friday, December 7, 2012 7:55:55 PM UTC, peter wrote:

> That's very reassuring. But many are still just blow-ups of p.1 of an
> article-class document.

Hi Peter, I am not sure if I agree. Have a look at some LaTeX-base (e.g. beamerposter) presentations from CS/math/physics boies and girls. They don't look like article class documents at all to me.

We may be talking at cross purpose. What exactly do you mean with ``article class document.''

Regards,


Marc van Dongen

[Peter Flynn]

On 12/07/2012 09:06 PM, Marc van Dongen wrote:
> On Friday, December 7, 2012 7:55:55 PM UTC, peter wrote:
>
>> That's very reassuring. But many are still just blow-ups of p.1 of
>> an article-class document.
>
> Hi Peter, I am not sure if I agree. Have a look at some LaTeX-base
> (e.g. beamerposter) presentations from CS/math/physics boies and
> girls. They don't look like article class documents at all to me.

Posters from people who have greater experience in what *TeX is capable
of can of course be very creative and interesting. I should probably
have excluded CS, maths, and physics.

But if you wander round a poster exhibition at a medical, biological,
chemical, or engineering conference, I think the majority would fit my
description.

> We may be talking at cross purpose. What exactly do you mean with
> ``article class document.''

A document prepared with the default LaTeX article class with no
modifications.

///Peter

[Darcy]

>> Hi Peter, I am not sure if I agree. Have a look at some LaTeX-base
>> (e.g. beamerposter) presentations from CS/math/physics boies and
>> girls. They don't look like article class documents at all to me.
>
> Posters from people who have greater experience in what *TeX is capable
> of can of course be very creative and interesting. I should probably
> have excluded CS, maths, and physics.

Thanks for the replies. I will try beamerposter as it looks like you can easily
set a beautiful poster. Unfortunately, I do not have much time to tinker with
more basic classes.

At first, I did not understant why there was not a sort of standard for posters,
but it seems beamerposter do the job. And other disciplines have different
needs.


--
Alexis Praga

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <slrnkc8sd...@debian.ecchi-bear>, Darcy

<al...@debian.ecchi-bear> writes:

> At first, I did not understant why there was not a sort of standard for posters,
> but it seems beamerposter do the job. And other disciplines have different
> needs.

There used to be poster.sty or whatever, but this was printing out
several sheets of A4 to be taped together. These days, people print A0.

It depends on what you want to do. Just formatting it for A4 then
scaling it up to A0 with PostScript commands might be enough. For my
posters, I used to set the title block like this (title, authors,
institutes etc)---it was designed to be seen from afar---but underneath
that had 3 columns which was set in a smaller size than A0/A4, but much
larger than what is appropriate for A4---the idea here is that those
interested in the poster will move closer to read the text, but not as
close as if they were looking at a sheet of A4, especially since there
might be more than one person reading at a time.

[Marc van Dongen]

On Sunday, December 9, 2012 11:10:54 AM UTC, Darcy wrote:

> [ snip ]

> At first, I did not understant why there was not a
> sort of standard for posters, but it seems beamerposter
> do the job. And other disciplines have different needs.

Since you decided to use beamerposter, you may be glad to learn there's a short presentation about making posters with beamerposters on http://csweb.ucc.ie/~dongen/LAF/LAF.html. It's the presentation on the bottom of the page.

Regards,


Marc van Dongen

[Axel Berger]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> Just formatting it for A4 then
> scaling it up to A0 with PostScript commands might be enough.

Don't think so. That way works for presentations and is what beamer
does, but posters need to work from afar but you can still step up to
them and read paragraphs in normal size print.

[Darcy]

> Since you decided to use beamerposter, you may be glad to learn there's a
> short presentation about making posters with beamerposters on
> http://csweb.ucc.ie/~dongen/LAF/LAF.html. It's the presentation on the
> bottom of the page.

Thanks !
By the way, if you know of some nice themes (apart from the ones listed on
http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~dreuw/latexbeamerposter.php), let me
know.


--
Alexis Praga

[Dr Engelbert Buxbaum]

In article <slrnkbvel...@debian.ecchi-bear>, al...@debian.ecchi-
bear says...

>

> What do you recommand as a good package for making conference posters with
> LaTeX ?

I routinely use the sciposter class, with 3 columns of text (multicol).
That is wide enough for figures, but narrow enough to produce readable
lines in text.