## Instructions for typesetting a poster

This is a Beginner's Guide to A0 poster typesetting in LaTeX. The presented advice is only indicative, no formal style is imposed. However, we recommend A0 formats in "portrait" orientation.

Preliminaries: The suggested tool is LaTeX. If you want to typeset your poster with another tool, you should be careful with the image resolutions and the size of the resulting PDF file (it should be kept under 20MB).

Image resolution should be not too coarse (the image appears blurred or pixelized on the A0 format) and not too fine (to generate large PDF files for printing). Caution should be taken with genuine vector-images like Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) or PDF files. Their size might be unnecessarily large as it might contain also hidden data (3D information in Z-buffer, or other images).

Preparing posters in LaTeX: For the A0 poster creation, we will use the a0size and the sciposter LaTeX classes. These classes are probably already installed on your computer. However, they are also provided with the poster template (see the download section), in this case you have to copy them into your current LaTeX source directory. Other LaTeX resources are available at CTAN. So, all you need is a working LaTeX installation.

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