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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-poster.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-poster.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f94e4158f41 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-poster.html @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label poster</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Creating posters with LaTeX</h3> +<p/>There is no complete “canned solution” to creating a poster (as, for +example, classes like <i>seminar</i>, <i>powerdot</i> and +<i>beamer</i> serve for creating presentations in a variety of +styles). +<p/>The nearest approach to the complete solution is the <i>sciposter</i> +class, which provides the means to produce really rather good posters +according to the author’s required style. A complete worked example +is provided with the distribution +<p/>Otherwise, there is a range of tools, most of which are based on the +<i>a0poster</i> class, which sets up an appropriately-sized piece of +paper, sets font sizes appropriately, and leaves you to your own +devices. +<p/>Having used <i>a0poster</i>, you can of course slog it out, and write +all your poster as an unadorned LaTeX document (presumably in +multiple columns, using the <i>multicol</i> package), but it’s not really +necessary: the (straightforward) <i>textpos</i> package provides a +simple way of positioning chunks of text, or tables or figures, on the +poster page. +<p/>More sophisticated is the <i>flowfram</i> package, whose basic aim +in life is flowing text from one box on the page to the next. One of +the package’s design aims seems to have been the production of +posters, and a worked example is provided. The author of +<i>flowfram</i> has an experimental tool called +<a href="http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/jpgfdraw/">JpgfDraw</a>, which +allows you to construct the outline of frames for use with +<i>flowfram</i>. +<p/>Despite the relative shortage of tools, there are a fair few web pages +that explain the process (mostly in terms of the <i>a0poster</i> +route): +<ul> +<li> from Norman Gray, + <a href="http://nxg.me.uk/docs/posters/">Producing posters using LaTeX</a>; +<li> from Nicola Talbot, + <a href="http://theoval.sys.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/posters/index.html">Creating technical posters with LaTeX</a> +<li> from “<em>awf</em>” and “<em>capes</em>” + <a href="http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~awf/latex-posters/">Preparing conference posters in LaTeX</a> + (the page discusses a sample, which you can download); +<li> From Rob Clark + <a href="http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/robert/posters/advanced.html">Advanced LaTeX Posters</a> + (which has links to code samples); +<li> from Brian Wolven, + <a href="http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/~wolven/posters.html">http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/~wolven/posters.html</a> (this page also + provides macros and other support suggestions); and +<li> from “<em>pjh</em>” + <a href="http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~pjh/posters/poster_howto_UF.html">Making and printing a poster with LaTeX</a>, + which covers the specific issue of dealing with University of + Florida styled poster (offering supporting material as necessary), + but has hints which are generally useful. +</ul> +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>a0poster.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/a0poster.zip">macros/latex/contrib/a0poster</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/a0poster.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/a0poster/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>flowfram.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram.zip">macros/latex/contrib/flowfram</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>multicol.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>sciposter.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sciposter.zip">macros/latex/contrib/sciposter</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sciposter.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sciposter/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>textpos.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/textpos.zip">macros/latex/contrib/textpos</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/textpos.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/textpos/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=poster">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=poster</a> +</body> |