Posters

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As students, we often present posters at conferences. While there are many tools for authoring posters, for those of us who use LaTeX, the path may be murky. This page presents some common approaches, as well as some Drexel-specific details.

Drexel branding

As Drexel students, it's useful to use Drexel logos and colors (especially on cool posters). This gets the word out that cool stuff is going on here. Drexel provides a suite of logos, but the vector graphics forms are unfortunately wrapped in Windows/Mac-specific packaging. I've freed them for Linux/other access.

The department also got a number of CoAS logos. However, the originals have since been taken down, and I can't find references on the CoAS site.

Packages

There are a number of popular LaTeX packages for authoring posters, with sciposter and beamerposter being the most prominent (as far as I know). You can probably browse around CTAN-contrib and find more. The packages generally contain examples or templates to get you started.

Other useful utilities are texpos, which allows for arbitrary text/graphic positioning, and Pgf, Asymptote, etc., which help you draw cool graphics.

Examples

Evan Sultanik over in the Comp. Sci. department has put together a nice example of a beamerposter layout, and I've got an older sciposter/textpos layout. If you do something cool/different/etc., post a link your source here too!