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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label poster</title>
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<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://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 &ldquo;<em>awf</em>&rdquo; and &ldquo;<em>capes</em>&rdquo; 
  <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 &ldquo;<em>pjh</em>&rdquo; 
  <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>
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<dt><tt><i>a0poster.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/a0poster.zip">macros/latex/contrib/a0poster</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/a0poster/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>flowfram.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram.zip">macros/latex/contrib/flowfram</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>multicol.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>sciposter.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sciposter.zip">macros/latex/contrib/sciposter</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sciposter/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>textpos.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/textpos.zip">macros/latex/contrib/textpos</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/textpos/">browse the directory</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>
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