This package has been put up at tug.ctan.org.
Thanks again, Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: beamerposter Author's name: Philippe Dreuw Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/beamerposter Summary description: The beamerposter package is an extension of the LaTeX beamer and the a0poster classes in order to create custom sized LaTeX posters, e.g. a double DIN-A0 size LaTeX poster in landscape or portrait orientation. Furthermore it is possible to scale the poster fonts to your needs. License type: lppl
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The LaTeX beamerposter package is an extension of the LaTeX beamer and the a0poster classes in order to create LaTeX posters, e.g. a DIN-A0 size LaTeX poster in landscape or portrait orientation. Furthermore it is possible to scale the poster fonts to your needs.
The package allows you to benefit from the nice color box handling and alignment in the beamer class (e.g. with rounded corners and shadows) in order to create quite fast pretty conference posters.
Features: * scalable fonts using the fp and type1cm packages * posters in DIN-A0, DIN-A1, DIN-A2, DIN-A3, DIN-A4, and custom sizes like double DIN-A0 possible * still applicable to custom beamer slides, e.g. 16:9 slides for a widescreen (i.e. 1.78 aspect ratio) * orientation: landscape or portrait * debug mode ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamerposter . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/beamerposter (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .