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METEOROLOGY DEPARTMENT COMPUTING - Posters using LaTeX or Xfig | |
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Making a poster in LaTeX |
You might not think that LaTeX was the best tool in the world for making a
poster, but it can produce nice-looking results. It is good if you have
postscript figures which you want to put into the poster -- Micro$oft products
are annoyingly unfriendly about this. If you use LaTeX anyway, and like it, you
should give it a try. Perhaps the easiest thing is to look at an example
produced by someone else. To that end, I have made a dummy poster for which the
LaTeX source is here
To use this, click on it and save wherever you keep your LaTeX files. You
also need a0poster.cls
and a0size.sty . Click
on these and save them in the same directory as your poster. Then run LaTeX and
dvips on the file like this:
latex dummy_poster dvips dummy_poster -oThis produces an A4 postscript file which you can look at the result with ghostscript:
gs dummy_poster.psYou can not use Ghostview or xdvi, they do not understand about the paper size issues (or something). If the ghostview window is too big for your screen, try
gs -r85 dummy_poster.psThe number after the -r is the percentage of the default size. If this all works, you just have to insert your own text and figures. There are quite a lot of comments in the file itself which should help you to customise the poster to your liking. If your large- printer has a facility to expand a4 to large you may be able to send this to your large printer as it is. If you change the first line to replace
\documentclass[a0b,preview]{a0poster}
with \documentclass[a0b]{a0poster}
you will get a postscript file the right size for a HP large- printer.
This is one imperial yard wide, making it a bit bigger than true A0 size.
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