Thanks, I have saved this latex template and will try it.
Thanks all, best regards, lina
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 1:03 AM Brian Flaherty <b...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 11/2/21 07:33, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 20:46, lina <lina.lastn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have to prepare a poster,
>
> > Inkscape appears to be pretty powerful when one knows how to use it.
> > It's always added to my setups even though I barely touch it. Just
> > waiting for time to follow a good how-to step by step.
> >
> > I just tried an "apt-cache search poster" query. Received "poster" and
> > "shanty" back. Mentioning in case someone knows of them or can help
> > test drive them for informational purposes. They appear to be command
> > line tools, and both have manpages for flags and such.
>
> If you are creating a poster for a scientific conference and you know
> LaTeX or another TeX derivative, you can make a poster with it. I've
> used LaTeX packages sciposter and a0poster in the past. Here's the top
> of a latex file I have using sciposter:
>
> \documentclass[custom,landscape,36pt]{sciposter}
>
> \special{papersize=96in,48in}
>
> \usepackage[absolute]{textpos}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \usepackage{amsmath}
> \usepackage{amssymb}
> \usepackage{multicol}
> \usepackage{hanging}
>
> \special{ps:gsave
> Resolution dup scale -1 35 translate 1 -1 scale
> 0.57 0.39 0.91 setrgbcolor
> 26 28.5 44 6 rectfill
> grestore}
>
>
> \definecolor{mainCol}{rgb}{0.98,0.98,0.82}
> \definecolor{BoxCol}{rgb}{1.,0.87,0.0}
> \definecolor{TextCol}{rgb}{0,0,0}
> \definecolor{SectionCol}{rgb}{0,0,0}
>
> \renewcommand{\columnseprule}{0pt}
> \renewcommand{\sectionsize}{\Large}
> \renewcommand{\subsectionsize}{\large}
>
>
> \title{\textcolor{white}{Very, very interesting stuff}}
>
> \author{\textcolor{white}{me}}
>
> \institute{\textcolor{white}{affill}}
>
> \email{\textcolor{white}{me@me}}
>
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \maketitle
>
> \begin{multicols}{5}
>
> %%% the poster text, etc.
> text text text
>
> %%% this won't work without some \end{X} statements.
>
> I also have a paper96x48.cfg file in the same directory.
>
> :> more paper96x48.cfg
> % file papercustom.cfg, M.H.F. Wilkinson
> % custom paper support
> % for sciposter.cls v1.10 and higher
> % edit pointsize, width, height, and fontsize parameters as needed
> % DO ensure that values in the \special commands match!
> \renewcommand{\papertype}{custom}
> \renewcommand{\fontpointsize}{36pt}
> \setlength{\paperwidth}{121cm}
> \setlength{\paperheight}{243cm}
> \renewcommand{\setpspagesize}{
> \ifthenelse{\equal{\orientation}{portrait}}{
> \special{papersize=121cm,243m}
> }{\special{papersize=243cm,121cm}
> }
> }
>
>
> I've also used the poster package in Debian to take the full poster and
> spit it out as a bunch of 9.5x11 sheets of paper for printing and then
> taping together. It has worked in a pinch for me, but it is a little
> disappointing to work hard to make a nice looking poster and then it
> looks pretty terrible taped up.
>
> Good luck and enjoy. I have always enjoyed making posters.
>
>
