LaTeX Poster Template
This week I presented a poster at the Mathematics in Experimental Quantum Information Processing Workshop at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, Ontario, and I will admit that I had a few fleeting moments when I was considering using Microsoft Publisher to create it. I couldn’t find any poster templates in LaTeX that I liked, and frankly LaTeX just seemed like it wouldn’t work well for something moderately graphics-heavy like a poster.
However, as it always does, the desire for easy-to-integrate mathematics won the battle and it wasn’t long before I was scrounging the depths of the tenth page of Google search results for LaTeX poster templates. Eventually I did find a template that I was able to modify to my liking, and this is the result:
Since I’m such a nice guy, you can download the .tex and .sty files used to create the poster here if you would like to. The poster is based on the template created by the Computational Pysics and Biophysics Group at Jacobs University with the following minor modifications:
- Four column landscape layout instead of three column portrait layout.
- Changed from A0 (33.1″ × 46.8″) paper to 48″ × 36″ poster paper (which is a bit more standard in my experience).
- Removed the blue border around the poster (I hate borders, and it’s cheaper to print this way!).
- Used a serif font rather than a sans-serif font for small (i.e., non-header) text.
- Messed around with the header.
- Moved the university logo from the header down to the “Acknowledgements” section.
Download:
- LaTeX poster template [.zip of LaTeX files]
- My poster: The multiplicative domain in quantum error correction [.zip of LaTeX files]
“Such nice guys” definitely rock. Thanks and keep it up.
Saved my life… Special thanks to you for my poster. I think I started to like LaTeX after all =)
Thanks Nath for making this template available. I definitely had to use LaTex for my poster and needed a template that was not out-of-date. Please keep up the good and generous work.
Really interesting. Thanks for that. Looking forward to making mine.
Thanks mate. I hope this makes my poster stand out. Feels good to be out of the clutches of MS for all word/document processing needs.
YES! Just finished up my poster using this template. Looks fantastic printed.
Many, many thanks.
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Buddy, the first poster I made with Latex got me the best poster prize in a small meeting (I hope there was more to it than just the word processing tool I used). This cements my trust on everything Latex.
hai, nice to see these zip files. i just want to know how to change the title? its there in the head.pdf but if i want to keep my title how can i do that? looking forward for ur reply. i need this information very urgently. Thanks in advance.
Hi, Thanks for the template. It was very useful
It is really very nice. When I use it, I meet some problem like this
Latex error: file ‘head’ not found.
When I comment \usetheme{confposter}, it can be compiled!
What is wrong?
I was wondering, if I wanted to make a two-panel poster, where the main title would be on one panel (or one half of the whole poster), how can I do that? Thanks! =)
Fantastic template! Thanks very much to you and the Jacobs Uni people!
Thanks for posting this template. You have saved me hours and hours of frustration!