Re: Software for poster presentations

[Miguel de Val Borro <mdeval@cfa.harvard.edu>]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:05:31PM +0100, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> I agree with your sentiments about latex being quite useful; indeed, it is the 
> only thing that I currently use for writing up my work.
> 
> But I'm talking about a poster here not a paper. A poster is an entirely 
> visual thing where you do the layout; latex is an entirely text-based thing 
> where the TeX typesetting engine does the hard work and does the layout for 
> you. These two things seem to be at the opposite ends of the scale hence my 
> question about whether latex would be a viable alternative.
> 
> Have you ever used latex to produce a poster? Care to share the latex code 
> (and final product)? Learning by example is always easiest!

There is an example of a latex poster in the texlive-science-doc package at:
/usr/share/doc/texlive-science-doc/latex/sciposter/sciposterexample/

Miguel