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The baposter latex poster style
Brian Amberg
August 30, 2011
Abstract
This is still only a very rough documentation, but it should be better than no documentation. If anything is unclear, please post a request (preferably with a patch) at the bugtracker.
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Introduction
baposter is a LaTeX template to efficently design pretty posters for scientific conferences. Posters
are composited of blocks with headings, which can be positioned easily on the page, using absolute
or relative positioning. A number of predefined styles can be composed to generate new color
schemes and ornaments.
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Usage
Refer to the included example posters for the overall structure. I will document the different keys
here. The main environment for the poster is the poster environment. It has the following structure
\begin{poster}{
key=value options
}
{
Eye Catcher, empty if option eyecatcher=no
}
{
Poster Title
}
{
Poster Authors
}
{
University Logo
}
Definition of the boxes
\end{poster}
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PosterTitle
Poster authors or subtitle
Box 1
Box 2
Text of Box 1
Text of Box 3
Box 2
Text of Box 2
It should be immediately inside the
\begin{document}
\end{document}
environment, or there will be blank pages.
Additionally, you can pass some options for page size selection directly to the class file.
\documentclass[class options]{baposter}
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Class Options
The class options are
landscape/portrait Page Layout
a0paper, a1paper, a2paper, a3paper, a4paper, archE Predefined paper sizes
paperwidth=length,paperheight=length Width/Height of the paper. Do not use together
with a0paper or other predefined paper sizes.
margin=length Page margin
fontscale=real number Scaling of the poster. The poster is typeset with standard font sizes on
a ‘fontscale times papersize’ paper, and then scaled up by 1/fontscale to the chosen paper
size. This ensures good looking font sizes. So if you need to fit more onto a poster, increase
the fontscale option to get smaller fonts. But be sure not to choose too small fonts, or your
paper will be awful. I find posters with small print a nuisance, and tend to spend more time
with well presented and concise content.
showframe Show a frame around the page, mainly useful for debugging.
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2.2
Poster Environment Options
The available options are:
grid={yes,no} Display a grid, which can be useful during the layout phase.
columns=4 Number of columns (default 4 in landscape and 3 in portrait format) (maximum
number is 6)
colspacing=length Distance between the columns of the poster
headerheight=length Height of the main poster header as a length (not of the headers of the
text boxes). Default value is 0.1\textheight.
background=poster background type Type of poster background. Possible values are
1. plain: Plain background in one color (bgColorOne)
2. shade-lr: Horizontal background gradient (from bgColorOne to bgColorTwo)
3. shade-tb: Vertical background gradient (from bgColorOne to bgColorTwo)
4. user: Use the command \background{...} to define your own background.
5. none: No background at all.
none
shade-lr
plain
bgColorOne=green!40
shade-tb
bgColorOne=green!40
bgColorTwo=yellow
bgColorOne=green!40
bgColorTwo=yellow
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bgColorOne=pgf color name First background color. For a plain, this color will be used. For
a shaded background, this is the first color for the gradient.
bgColorTwo=pgf color name Second background color. This color will only be used for shaded
backgrounds as the end color of the gradient.
eyecatcher={yes,no} Should an eye catcher be shown on the left of the title page. The eyecatcher
itself is defined in the second argument of the poster environment.
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2.3
Posterbox Environment Options
borderColor=pgf color name Color used for the borders of the poster boxes
headerColorOne=pgf color name First color of box header. Two colors can be used to define
gradients.
headerColorTwo=pgf color name Second color of box header. Two colors can be used to define
gradients.
textborder=border type Which kind of border should the lower part of the text boxes have.
Possible values are:
1. none
2. bars
3. coils
4. triangles
5. rectangle
6. rounded
b
7. faded
rectangle
rounded
roundedsmall
roundedleft
roundedright
none
bars
faded
triangles
coils
headerborder=header border type At which sides of the text box headers should we draw a
border. Possible values are:
1. none
2. closed
b
3. open
none
open
closed
headershape=header border shape The type of ornament of the text box headers. Possible
values are
1. rectangle
2. small-rounded
3. roundedright
4
4. roundedleft
b
5. rounded
rectangle
rounded
smallrounded
roundedleft
roundedright
headershade=type of header shading Which shading should be applied to the text box headers. Possible values are
1. plain
2. shade-lr
3. shade-tb
4. shade-tb-inverse
boxshade which kind of shading is applied to the text boxes. Possible values are
1. shade-lr
2. shade-tb
3. plain
4. none
headerfont=font definition Commands inserted before a text box header is typeset.
headerFontColor=pgf color name Color that the header is typeset in.
linewidth=length Width of the lines used when drawing the poster.
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Author and Licence
The author is Brian Amberg, and the class is distributed under the GPL. The current version and
documentation can be found at:
http://www.brian-amberg.de/uni/poster/
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