The LaTeX beamerposter package
| LaTeX poster with beamerposter - beamer - a0poster |
Creating a scientific LaTeX poster with the beamerposter package
The LaTeX beamerposter package was created by Philippe Dreuw and Thomas Deselaers. It is an extension of the LaTeX beamer and the a0poster classes in order to create LaTeX posters, e.g. a DIN-A0 size LaTeX poster in landscape or portrait orientation. Furthermore it is possible to scale the poster fonts to your needs.
The package allows you to benefit from the nice color box handling and alignment in the beamer class (e.g. with rounded corners and shadows) in order to create quite fast pretty conference posters.
Features:
- scalable fonts using the fp and type1cm packages
- posters in DIN-A0, DIN-A1, DIN-A2, DIN-A3, DIN-A4, and custom sizes like double DIN-A0 possible
- still applicable to custom beamer slides, e.g. 16:9 slides for a widescreen (i.e. 1.78 aspect ratio)
- orientation: landscape or portrait
- debug mode
LaTeX requirements:
- beamer class
- fp package
- xkeyval package (in a version supporting choice keys, e.g. v2.5f)
- type1cm package for scalable and huge math fonts
- paralist package
The beamerposter package is available from CTAN and from my webpage.
- CTAN release: http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=beamerposter
- see also http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamerposter/
We received so many congratulations and also interesting questions about the beamerposter package that I created a beamerposter googlegroup.
Feel free to post your questions, source files, templates, or new style files there.
PLEASE: If you have any beamerposter related question, post it there so that I don't need to answer the same question twice
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Below you will find new releases, beamerposter LaTeX template examples, you can download style files with corresponding source files, and a FAQ section with user questions.
| LaTeX beamerposter - Releases / ChangeLog |
- beamerposter.sty.111 - removed incompatible paralist package, bugfixed list indention problem
- beamerposter.sty.110 - improved package errors, warnigs, and info messages
- beamerposter.sty.109 - bugfixed list indention problem (e.g. itemize/enumerate/descritpion/etc.), added printer option for external printer definition files
- beamerposter.sty.108 - supports external printer definition files, added grid mode option, renamed beamer specific variables, added font size normalization (scale=1.0 is now default size for all DIN-A(n) sizes)
- beamerposter.sty.107 - bugfixed custom size handling, portrait or landscape settings are ignored now
- beamerposter.sty.106 - added the type1cm package for scalable and huge math fonts
- beamerposter.sty.105 - added version check for xkeyval package
- beamerposter.sty.104 - added custom size handling
- beamerposter.sty.103 - improved predefined size handling
- beamerposter.sty.102 - minor bugfixes
- beamerposter.sty.101 - bugfixed size handling
- beamerposter.sty.100 - first beamerposter release
| LaTeX beamerposter - Example |
\documentclass[final,hyperref={pdfpagelabels=false}]{beamer}
\mode<presentation> { %% check http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~dreuw/latexbeamerposter.php for examples
\usetheme{Berlin} %% you should define your own theme e.g. for big headlines using your own logos
}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm, amssymb, latexsym}
%\usepackage{times}\usefonttheme{professionalfonts} % times is obsolete
\usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif}
\boldmath
\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a0,scale=1.4,debug]{beamerposter} % e.g. for DIN-A0 poster
%\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a1,scale=1.4,grid,debug]{beamerposter} % e.g. for DIN-A1 poster, with optional grid and debug output
%\usepackage[size=custom,width=200,height=120,scale=2,debug]{beamerposter} % e.g. for custom size poster
%\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a0,scale=1.0,printer=rwth-glossy-uv.df]{beamerposter} % e.g. for DIN-A0 poster with rwth-glossy-uv printer check
% ...
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\title[Fancy Posters]{Making Really Fancy Posters with \LaTeX}
\author[Dreuw \& Deselaers]{Philippe Dreuw and Thomas Deselaers}
\institute[RWTH Aachen University]{Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition,RWTH Aachen University}
\date{Jul. 31th, 2007}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{}
\vfill
\begin{block}{\large Fontsizes}
\centering
{\tiny tiny}\par
{\scriptsize scriptsize}\par
{\footnotesize footnotesize}\par
{\normalsize normalsize}\par
{\large large}\par
{\Large Large}\par
{\LARGE LARGE}\par
{\veryHuge veryHuge}\par
{\VeryHuge VeryHuge}\par
{\VERYHuge VERYHuge}\par
\end{block}
\vfill
\end{frame}
\end{document}
| LaTeX beamerposter - Download - Templates - Themes |
Download an example as beamerposter-example.pdf from our webserver.
Download a complete zip archives beamerposter-example2.zip or beamerposter-example.zip
which contain the example pdf with the corresponding theme and all necessary files (note: the included beamerposter.sty itself might be deprecated!).
Download the latest beamerposter.sty from our webserver.
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| Download all LaTeX source files of my BMVC 2009 Poster as an example for a DIN-A0 poster in potrait orientation. |
| Maybe you are interested in the corresponding paper too? |
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| Download the LaTeX source file of my Interspeech 2007 poster as an example for a custom size poster 200cm x 120cm in landscape orientation. |
| Maybe you are interested in the corresponding paper too? |
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Download the LaTeX source file of my
LREC 2008 poster
as an example for a custom size poster 150cm x 90cm in portrait orientation. You can also download the new Icy-beamertheme style file. |
| LaTeX beamerposter - Styles |
| LaTeX beamerposter - FAQ |
- How to create boxes with fixed header height (i.e. baseline problem depending on characters)?.
Inside your theme you have to change within \setbeamertemplate{block begin} to (by Matthias Wächter, thx :-)\begin{beamercolorbox}[center,leftskip=1cm,colsep*=.75ex]{block title}% \usebeamerfont*{block title}% {\rule[-0.4ex]{0mm}{2ex}\insertblocktitle}% \end{beamercolorbox}% - How to create boxes with fixed height (e.g. 20cm)?
Inside your theme you have to change within \setbeamertemplate{block begin} to\begin{beamercolorbox}[ht=20cm,...]{block body} - How to create boxes which are filled until the bottom of the poster?
I don't know, because this here doesn't work:\setlength{\rest}{\textheight} \addtolength{\rest}{-\pagetotal} \vskip\restPlease write me an email if you know how. - Can I use beamerposter to generate LaTeX beamer 16:9 slides
in an aspect ratio for a 16:9 projector or a widescreen TV?
In principle yes (there might be better ways to solve this problem), just check that your width and height ratio is close to 1.78 (16:9) and try different and small font scale values, e.g.\usepackage[orientation=landscape,size=custom,width=16,height=9,scale=0.5,debug]{beamerposter}
- my printer doesn't support borderless printing, how can I change the margin values?
Simply use the pdfnup tool with negative trim values, e.g.pdfnup --nup 1x1 --trim "-44mm -44mm -44mm -44mm" myposter.pdfAnother option might be to use the pgfpages package (works for DIN sized posters, by Florian Hengstberger :-)\usepackage[orientation=landscape,size=a0,scale=1.5]{beamerposter} \usepackage{pgfpages} \pgfpagesuselayout{resize to}[a0paper,landscape,border shrink=10mm]
| LaTeX - Misc |
- If you have to cut, resize, or convert images/videos for your LaTeX slides, you should have a look at my video tools summary page for mplayer, mencoder, or ffmpeg
- If you use (X)Emacs and would like to use hyperref's autoref inside AUCTeX, you should have a look at my RefTeX - Hyperref - Autoref extension page.
- If you have to embed all your fonts into your latex generated PDF document, you should have a look at may bashtools page.
Philippe Dreuw Last modified: Wed Oct 21 11:44:11 CEST 2009 Disclaimer. Created Mon Jul 31 10:10:58 CET 2007
