Posters in LaTeX2e

by Riccardo Fazio

Let us assume that a plotter printing on A0 format paper is available, then we can use the document class (or the style file) a0poster available from the CTAN sub-directory: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/a0poster/

However, usually the only color printer available is able to print on A4 format paper or eventually on A3 format paper. If you are a PCWIN or UNIX user don't panic: the CTAN sub-directory http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/poster/ contains the poster package written by Jos van Eijndhoven that can process a page in A4 format included in a postscript (ps or eps) file to produce a poster given by several pages within a ps file. For instance consider the file poster1.ps, with the line

poster -v -iA4 -s3.3 poster1.ps > poster16.ps

we get the file poster16.ps containing 16 pages in A4 format that make an A0 poster. Moreover, with the line

poster -v -iA4 -s2 poster1.ps > poster8.ps

we get the file poster8.ps containing 8 pages in A4 format that make half of an A0 poster. Finally with

poster -v -iA4 -mA3 -pA0 poster1.ps > poster8a3.ps

from a page in A4 format we get 8 pages in A3 format that all together make a poster in A0 format.

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By Riccardo Fazio , June 9, 2000