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

• 10. June 2010 Added option to set the number of columns
  • added a class option to set the number of columns
    • columns=5: sets the number of columns to 5, possible values are 1..6, default is 3 in portrait and 4 in landscape format
• 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:

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 (~4 MB) 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 (beware: this includes an outdated version of baposter.cls).

FAQ

1. How do I change the number of columns
   Since version 1.04 (10. June 2010) there is an option to set the number of columns, you can choose between 1 to 6 columns, the default is 4 columns in landscape and 3 columns in portrait mode.
2. Which colours did you use for ICVSS'08?
   Here are the important parts of the header. The full poster does not compile with the current version of the poster style, because some presets have changed.

         \definecolor{silver}{cmyk}{0,0,0,0.3}
         \definecolor{yellow}{cmyk}{0,0,0.9,0.0}
         \definecolor{reddishyellow}{cmyk}{0,0.22,1.0,0.0}
         \definecolor{black}{cmyk}{0,0,0.0,1.0}
         \definecolor{darkYellow}{cmyk}{0,0,1.0,0.5}
         \definecolor{darkSilver}{cmyk}{0,0,0,0.1}
   
         \definecolor{lightyellow}{cmyk}{0,0,0.3,0.0}
         \definecolor{lighteryellow}{cmyk}{0,0,0.1,0.0}
         \definecolor{lighteryellow}{cmyk}{0,0,0.1,0.0}
         \definecolor{lightestyellow}{cmyk}{0,0,0.05,0.0}
   
         \begin{poster}%
         % Poster Options
         {
         % Color style
         bgColorOne=lighteryellow,
         bgColorTwo=lightestyellow,
         borderColor=reddishyellow,
         headerColorOne=yellow,
         headerColorTwo=reddishyellow,
         headerFontColor=black,
         boxColorOne=lightyellow,
         boxColorTwo=lighteryellow,
         % Format of textbox
         textborder=roundedleft,
         % Format of text header
         headerborder=open,
         headerheight=0.08\textheight,
         headershape=roundedright,
         headershade=plain,
         headerfont=\Large\textsf, %Sans Serif
         boxshade=plain,
         background=plain,
         linewidth=2pt
         }

3. How do I use a background image?
   Use the \background command:

         \background{
         \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]%
         \draw (current page.north west)+(-2em,2em) node[anchor=north west]
         {\includegraphics[height=1.1\textheight]{silhouettes_background}};
         \end{tikzpicture}%
         }

4. How do I set a specific output size?
   This is on my todo list, and I know how to do it. But I am desperately short of time.
5. How do I make more space in the header (for a multi-line header or more author names)?
   First ask yourself if you really need this. The chances that anyone will read your poster are negatively correlated with the amount of text on the poster, and a long title already dispells the majority of people before they even start reading your poster.
   Apart from that there is a headerheight= option to set the total height of the header.

Author

Brian Amberg (baposter@brian-amberg.de)