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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label poster</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Creating posters with LaTeX</h3>
+<p>There is no complete &ldquo;canned solution&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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://purl.org/nxg/note/posters">http://purl.org/nxg/note/posters</a>;
+<li> from &ldquo;<em>awf</em>&rdquo; and &ldquo;<em>capes</em>&rdquo;
+ <a href="http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~awf/latex-posters/">http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~awf/latex-posters/</a>;
+<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 &ldquo;<em>pjh</em>&rdquo;,
+ <a href="http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~pjh/posters/poster_howto_UF.html">http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~pjh/posters/poster_howto_UF.html</a>,
+ which covers the specific issue of dealing with University of
+ Florida styled poster, 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>