How to make posters using Latex

Qun Zhao  Nov. 30, 2002


1.  Download template and other required files from

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~pjh/posters/poster_howto.html   now at
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~pjh/posters/poster_howto_UF.html

2. Fill in your own contents and make layout changes- suppose agu.tex will be the name of your poster


3. compile

latex agu

dvips -o agu.ps agu.dvi

then you get agu.ps in A0 size.


The  following part refers to http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/docs/posters/#a4

4. to view use ghostview and choose the scale 0.25, you can view the A0 poster file agu.ps


5. to print resize the A0 size poster file agu.ps to A4 size, use


psresize -H238cm -h59.5cm agu.ps agu_a4.ps


That's almost it. Unfortunately the resizer seems to offset the poster from the correct location on the page.
Fortunately it's easy to fix. What you have to do is find the first line like "213.000 0.000 translate"
(not necessarily those numbers exactly) and change it to "0.0 0.0 translate". You should find it just
after the "%%Page" comment.

use ghostview to view  agu_a4.ps and choose A4 paper in the tool bar. You can print the A4 file from a ps printer to
have a look.

6. to print the poster

I normally take it to the printing shops. Kinkos is a good one. Ask them use Adobe Acrobat Distiller to open
your .ps file and then print it out.