This is a heavily modified version of the a0poster class originally written by Gerlinde Kettl and Matthias Weiser.

On an Ubuntu (or closely related) system, you can directly install the latex-imposter package:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:david-ham
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install latex-imposter

On other Unix-like systems (including other Linux distributions and Mac), installation from the git repository should be straightforward:

git clone https://github.com/dham/imposter.git
cd imposter
make install

Important information on producing posters with the imposter is provided on the example poster. On Ubuntu this can be found at:

/usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/imposter/example_mpecdt.pdf

while on other systems it will be found in the imposter source directory, and at:

$(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME)/doc/latex/imposter/example_mpecdt.pdf

Use from example.tex as a template and make changes as appropriate. ;)

• You will need to produce a pdf (for example with dvipdf). The dvi and postscript versions will be mangled.

• Because the package uses pstricks, pdflatex won't work.

Use one of the poster style commands listed in imposter.cls as a template. The basic idea is to use rput to lay out the various elements of the poster where you want them. rput units are mm and the origin is the bottom left hand corner of the page. Take note of the need to lay out the main \posterbox somewhere.

To enable the use of your poster style you will need to add a new \ifthenelse case to the definition of the \posterstyle command.

Please report bugs to David.

David Ham (David.Ham@imperial.ac.uk)