[pstricks] Poster Presentation using pstricks?

[Herbert Voss]

Raymond Paul Smith wrote:

> I was thinking about using metapost but i did not know how to proceed, so
> I choose pstricks. 

here are some links for creating a poster

http://texnik.de/layouts/layout.phtml#poster

> I needed a five column format, with a title at the top. However, i did not
> want to manually figure out how to place the columns.  I preferred to have
> an automatic way to layout the columns. This would allow me to change the
> size of the poster without having to recompute where i placed the title
> and columns.
> 
> I could not figure out how to do this so I ended up using something like a
> multicol approach.  Is there a way to position latex pictures at variable
> positions in the latex document using pstricks?  Perhaps metapost would
> have been better.  Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

you can choose a picture environment like

\psset{unit=1in}
\begin{pspicture(36,62)
...
\end{pspicture}

then you can put anything at every coordinates.

Herbert



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