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Creating a scientific LaTeX poster with `beamerposter`

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

Below you will find some news, beamerposter LaTeX examples, you can download style files with corresponding source files, and a FAQ section with user questions.

LaTeX beamerposter - NEWS - Change Log

We created a CTAN release: http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=beamerposter
see also http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamerposter/
Thank you all! I 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, 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

LaTeX beamerposter

Visit this group
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 >
  {
      \usetheme{Berlin} 
      %% you should define your own theme e.g. for big headlines, check http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~dreuw/latexbeamerposter.php
  }
  \usepackage{times}
  \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
  \usepackage[english]{babel}
  \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
  \usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a0,scale=1.4,debug]{beamerposter}   % e.g. for DIN-A0 poster
  %\usepackage[size=custom,width=200,height=120,scale=2,debug]{beamerposter}  % e.g. custom size poster
  ...
  \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}
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  %%% Local Variables: 
  %%% mode: latex
  %%% TeX-PDF-mode: t
  %%% End:

LaTeX beamerposter - Download

Download an example as beamerposter-example.pdf from our webserver.

Download a complete zip archive beamerposter-example.zip
which contains the example pdf with the corresponding theme and all necessary files (note: the beamerposter.sty itself might be deprecated!).

Download the latest beamerposter.sty from our webserver.

Download my Interspeech 2007 poster as an example for a custom size poster 200cm x 120cm in landscape orientation. You can also download the LaTeX source file of this poster.

Maybe you are interested in the corresponding paper too?

P. Dreuw, D. Rybach, T. Deselaers, M. Zahedi, and H. Ney. Speech Recognition Techniques for a Sign Language Recognition System. In Interspeech, pages 2513-2516, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. ISCA best student paper award Interspeech 2007.

Download my LREC 2008 poster as an example for a custom size poster 150cm x 90cm in portrait orientation. You can also download the LaTeX source file of this poster and the new Icy-beamertheme style file.

LaTeX beamerposter - Styles

beamerthemeAachen.sty | example-style-I6ac.tex

beamerthemeI6pd.sty | example-style-I6pd.tex

beamerthemeI6pd2.sty | example-style-I6pd2.tex

$Style Example$ Huge math font example using beamerthemeI6pd2.sty

beamerthemeI6dv.sty | example-style-I6dv.tex

beamerthemeI6td.sty | example-style-I6td.tex

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\rest
```
Please 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.pdf

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 Apr 01 12:11:11 CEST 2009 Disclaimer. Created Mon Jul 31 10:10:58 CET 2007

Creating a scientific LaTeX poster with beamerposter

Creating a scientific LaTeX poster with `beamerposter`