You can make great posters with LaTex. However hand-positioning elements through coordinates, adjusting size and margins can be very time-consuming and awkward. Scribus and Inkscape are a desktop publishing tools can give you more visual feel of the poster. Already for quite some time I wanted to post about a particular latex poster template. I used it for two posters in ECRO 2008 and later a poster for FET 2009.
Thanks to Brian Amberg for his template, called baposter, (ba is for his initials, I suppose). I like about it that it is latex and very elegant, and that conversion from article to poster is effortless. You organize the poster in boxes, which have a header each, and which you align relative to each other using keywords such as below, top, column, row. A code snippet from my FET poster:
\headerbox{Conclusions}{name=conclusions,column=1,below=discussion}{
\begin{itemize}
\compresslist
\item Some properties affect odor coding very strongly (sulfur--containing functional group).
\item Bond saturation affects also seems very relevant (alkyne, alkane, and alkene).
\item Carboxylic acid and aromatic, still seems to be important.
\item Results partly confirm relevance of dimensions of molecular properties suggested by Johnson and Leon
\end{itemize}
}
The image shows a poster from Ecro 2008. I hope you can see the poster in the correct colors. The title bars should be blue.
The first figure on the left is made in GNU R and is so much better than the other ones created in matlab! The main problem with the matlab figures seems to be in matlab's inability in linux to save figures with transparent backgrounds. I learned a lot about exporting figures in the meantime. See my article on exporting figures from latex.
For alternatives, another poster template which looks quite usable (I haven't tried it) is A0-poster. See the article about scribus posters on linux.com. I found scribus poster templates: at scribus post and on the official scribus site.
What is your experience with poster presentations in latex?
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3 comments:
can you please leave the .tex and figures available?, then i can reproduce your example, and start from there,
thanks
c
Hi, sorry for taking so long to answer. I was busy with other things and really not sure what to answer. I don't think it is appropriate to put an example here. I would have liked very much to put my poster sources with some fixes for variable number of columns. However, I think apart from unclear licensing of baposter, I think it would be discourteous to the author of the template, Brian Amberg, to publish variations of his template here. Please see the official example on Brian Amberg's page.
What do you think?
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