pdfposter.tex

\documentclass[a0, portrait]{a0poster}
\usepackage[ngerman, welsh, english]{babel} % welsh seems to be needed for blindtext
\usepackage[amssymb]{SIunits}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb}
\usepackage{multicol, fancybox}
\usepackage{color,graphicx}
\usepackage{wallpaper}
\usepackage{pdfposter}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{booktabs} % beautiful tabs
\usepackage{layouts}

%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
% some settings for your poster:
\newcommand{\postertitle}{A fancy poster on some advanced topic} % title of the poster
\newcommand{\posterauthors}{Alexander Ebersp\"acher} % authors
\newcommand{\authorsinst}{Otto-von-Guericke-Universit\"at, Magdeburg} % author's affiliations, institutes
\newcommand{\conference}{{A nice Conference, 2042\\Beautyville\\Germany}} % conference name and date
\graphicspath{{images/}} % subfolder for the figures/images
\newcommand{\instlogo}{NAT_SIGN_druck2} % filename of the logo
\newcommand{\columnnumber}{3} % number of columns on the poster
\definecolor{topcolor}{RGB}{255,255,255} % color of page top (used for color gradient)
\definecolor{bottomcolor}{RGB}{51, 181, 64} % color of page bottom (used for color gradient)
\newcommand{\topcolorpercentage}{100} % top color opacity: 100 full color, 0: fully transparent
\newcommand{\bottomcolorpercentage}{11} % bottom color opacity: 100 full color, 0: fully transparent

%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
% usually, you don't want to change anything below here.
% the contents of your poster goes to content.tex, which will be loaded
% below.

\hypersetup{colorlinks,
  breaklinks=true,
  linkcolor=black,
  urlcolor=black,
  citecolor=black,
  bookmarksnumbered,
  pdfauthor={\posterauthors},
  pdftitle={\postertitle}}


% if the column spacing is bad, maybe change something here:
\setlength{\columnsep}{7.5ex} % separation of the columns

\begin{document}

\begin{minipage}{0.98\textwidth}
  \begin{center}

    %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
    % color gradient for the page
    \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
      \node[inner sep=0pt, rectangle, top color=topcolor!\topcolorpercentage, bottom color=bottomcolor!\bottomcolorpercentage, minimum width=\paperwidth, minimum height=\paperheight] at (current page.center) {};
    \end{tikzpicture}
    %-----------------------------------------------------------------------

    %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
    % insert the header box
    \titlebox{\postertitle}{\posterauthors}{\authorsinst}{\instlogo}{\conference}
    %-----------------------------------------------------------------------

    % add star here (multicols*) and in \end{multicols} for unbalanced columns:
    \begin{multicols}{\columnnumber}[]

      %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
      % load content.tex
      \input{content.tex}

    \end{multicols}

  \end{center}
\end{minipage}

\end{document}