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Hi @rafaelbailo. It looks like your Poster 2.0 latex template is quite nice and becoming popular. Thank you for making it! Would you consider making it a GitHub template repository?

It might be a good idea to use the qrcode package from An­ders O. F. Hen­drick­son to generate the QR codes directly in LaTeX instead of generating them externally in a website.

See: https://ctan.org/pkg/qrcode?lang=de

Therefore, the existing qrcode command in the poster template must be renamed e.g. to 'qrcodeposter' using:

\let\qrcodeposter\qrcode

before loading the qrcode package.

For those of us who like to take a printout...

Unfortunately not all of us live in countries where ISO paper sizes are common. It would be useful for those of us who do not to have the option to use ANSI C, D, and E sizes (17 × 22 in., 22 × 34 in., and 34 × 44 in., respectively). These are very close to ISO A2, A1, and A0 sizes, respectively, so that the same (or very similar) parameters can likely be used.

Thank you @rafaelbailo for converting Mike Morrison's design into latex. I used it to design my poster (presented a few days ago) and it worked well. It took like a day to make, and you can check it here: https://www.overleaf.com/read/fjdkxtgprkjg

Below are a few comments about my experience designing it:

Design comments:

• I found the title, name and affiliations to work better in the middle column because that's where people expect them, and also to save space on the left column.
• The template doesn't work if you have an important horizontal figure or table. I tried to scale down the figure (the upper left one), and it fits but it is not great. Also this won't work at all if the figure was wider or more important.
• The phone and qrcode is larger than you want.

Latex comments:

• Font sizes are on a scale that's not intuitive. I usually rely on \normal, \large, \huge ... to pick a font size, but here you need to use numeric sizes because even \HUGE is not large enough, and it is are not easy to decide what numeric size to use
• I made a lot of changes in the .cls file to change sizes, alignments, .. etc. If this is usually the case, then it is better to move more of the stuff in the .cls file into the .tex file.
• Please make it easy to set poster dimension for printing. Popular sizes are 36x24 and 48x36

Thanks a lot for this helpful template.

For better printing quality (sharper and crisper edges) and less file size, it might be a good idea to insert the smartphone symbol next to the QR code as a vector graphic and not as a raster graphic, , see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics for a discussion on this.

For example, this figure might be used:
https://pixabay.com/de/vectors/mobil-handy-smartphone-icon-gui-1976104/

Some may want to use references with their poster. I tried it, but had unsatisfying results. I've put a MWE here:

https://gist.github.com/sfwolfphys/e3580f1e24d5dda515c99fb91f21be37

The short version is that:

1. The references heading that adding a bibliography usually generates is small (not using \fontsizesection.
2. It puts an * right before the references. See screenshot near the references:

...and the whole thing:

There is a package [1] for generating QR codes within LaTeX, and importing it into the betterposter template could be a time-saver for many

\usepackage{qrcode}

1. https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/qrcode?lang=en

Rafael, Thank you so much for your poster template. It'd be nice if there were an option for 3x4 posters.

\geometry{paperwidth=36in}
\geometry{paperheight=48in}