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Name of contribution: tikzposter Author's name: Pascal Richter, Elena Botoeva, Richard Barnard, and Dirk Surmann Package version: 2.0 Location on CTAN: graphics/pgf/contrib/tikzposter/ Summary description: Create scientific posters using TikZ License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
Major revision, including several new formatting options, new objects. Includes several new styles for all objects and allows for further customization.
Announcement required: Yes
Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tikzposter or they may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikzposter/
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team