[Tex/LaTex] Beamerposter Example

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To help them get started on their own presentations, I'd like to give my students the tex file for an attractive poster presentation using the beamerposter package. Unfortunately, the example that comes with the package is very sparse and doesn't give any sense of what a good poster should look like. I've searched elsewhere and come up empty handed.

Can anyone share the tex file for a complete working example of poster presentation using beamerposter? Preferably, the poster would be the standard (?) 48" x 36" landscape layout.

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Here is a discussion on this Stack Exchange Discussion and then here is a working example Poster Template referenced in the previous discussion. It is the one I would reference to my students. Note: You do not have to have an account with latextemplates to download the *.tex file and all supporting files.

I would suggest that you download all the files including the pdf to your computer. Then rename the pdf so that on subsequent compiles it will not be overwritten.

Then, without changing the downloaded example in any way, compile it and verify that you get the exact same pdf output.

Finally copy all of these file to an archive directory, so that if you make a change which causes serious problems, then you still have the original files to compare to.

Last, a bit of advice on using BeamerPoster. Because it is creating a large single slide, it is very easy to make an error and not be able to get it to compile. So, only make changes in a single area for the poster and then recompile.

Also, I strongly recommend that you read the manuals for beamerposter, beamer, and tikz, because there many available options. p.s. Use www.texdoc.org to quickly obtain the manuals.

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[Tex/LaTex] How to draw a horizontal line between middle of the page and one of the edges (in beamerposter)

Thanks to the hint from JLDiaz I managed to do it using tikz. Here are the sources for the solution:

\documentclass[final,hyperref={pdfpagelabels=false}]{beamer}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a0,scale=1.4,debug]{beamerposter}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}

\newcommand{\lefthalfline}{
    \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay,line width=2mm]
    \coordinate (A);
    \path let \p1 = (A), \p2 = (current page.center) in (\x2-0.5\paperwidth,\y1) edge (\x2,\y1);
    \end{tikzpicture}\\}

\newcommand{\righthalfline}{
    \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay,line width=2mm]
    \coordinate (A);
    \path let \p1 = (A), \p2 = (current page.center) in (\x2+0.5\paperwidth,\y1) edge (\x2,\y1);
    \end{tikzpicture}\\}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth]{headline}
    \centering\huge Headline and stuff\\
    \rule{.5\paperwidth}{2mm}\kern-1mm
    \smash{\vrule height 0pt depth \paperheight width 2mm}\kern-1mm
    \rule{.5\paperwidth}{2mm}%
  \end{beamercolorbox}

  \begin{columns}
   \begin{column}{0.01\textwidth}
   \end{column}
   \begin{column}{0.48\textwidth}
    \huge \lipsum[1]
    \lefthalfline
    End of part one
   \end{column}
   \begin{column}{0.02\textwidth}
   \end{column}
   \begin{column}{0.48\textwidth}
    \huge Start of part two\\
    \righthalfline
    \lipsum[2]
   \end{column}
   \begin{column}{0.01\textwidth}
   \end{column}
  \end{columns}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] basic beamerposter example, keyval error

the problem is in the .sty file, lines 33 and 45, where it tries to set a color into a \setbeamerfont macro, which is used for font settings, not colors.

Remove the color related options line 33: fg=white line 45:bg=i6colorscheme1,fg=white

and it will work. You'll also need the logo called at line 107 (or use the demo documentclass option)

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