Latex Poster Template

Introduction

A latex template to efficently design pretty posters. Posters are composited of blocks with headings, that can be positioned easily on the page, using absolute or relative positioning.

Bugs

There probably are some, they are tracked at the baposter bugtracker. You can also send me an eMail, but then I might forget it if I'm too busy.

News

29. April 2009 Incorporated Patches by Arne Henningsen
- added some class options
  - a4shrink: shrink the paper to A4 size (for printing drafts or handouts)
  - movebody=Xpt: move the text/poster body Xpt to the right (or to the left if Xpt is negative), e.g. for manually centering the poster on the page
  - showframe: use the "showframe" option of the "geometry" package
  - a0paper (default): set paper size to A0
  - archE: set paper size to Arch E
- setting "background" can be "none" now (otherwise the "showframe" option has no effect)
- the page number has been removed (it was mostly not visible before)
- the "margin=" option works now
14. November 2008
- Center title when using eyecatcher. (Beware, that the \\[1em] before the author list is not working anymore. Use \vspace{1em} as in the example poster.
04. November 2008
- Fixed bug with eyecatcher not working
26. June 2008
- Fixed bug with plain background mode.
14. June 2008
- Support for portrait/landscape switching.
- Some smaller bugfixes.
01. June 2007
- First version released.

Hints

Use this class with pdflatex, pslatex probably wont work, though I never tried.

I have confirmed that this package works with

texlive 2007
miktex 2.7

It does not seem to work with

miktex 2.2
some old versions of tetex

if in doubt, try to install a new version of the PGF library.

This class also needs a modern version of xkeyvals. I have confirmed it to fail with xkeyval 2005/01/30 v2.0 and to work with xkeyval 2006/11/18 v2.5f. If you are getting the following error message:

Keys

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...

l.130 \define@cmdkey[ba]{poster}[b
aposter@]{grid} [no] ...

then your xkeyvals package is too old.

Examples

CVPR' 09

AFGR '08

ICVSS '08

For ICVSS I introduced portrait and landscape modes. Here the same poster in both modes.

ICCV '07

CVPR '07

Download

baposter.tar.bz2 (Large) Containing the style and the example posters
baposter.cls (Very Small) Only the class file, if you just need an update
The source code for the CVPR'09 Poster on ICIA if you want another starting point.

Author

Brian Amberg (baposter@brian-amberg.de)