LyX ⇒ Trouble with making a poster in LyX

[thorpn]

I am trying to create a poster for a conference in LyX, however I cant really figure out how to do it.

I am using the Beamerposter class which needs to use the Beamerposter.sty, but I have not been able to figure out how to let it use it. In the LaTeX preamble I have put

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\usepackage{C:/Users/okotni/Desktop/beamerposter/beamerposter}

but when I try to compile I get errors saying "veryhuge already defined" etc.

What am I doing wrong ?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

I am using the Beamerposter class

do you mean the beamer class? I don't know a beamerposter class, only the beamerposter.sty package file that is loaded in addition to beamer.

Btw. I like the tikzposter class. It offers some nice styles. Take a look at the example with full source code from the LaTeX Cookbook: TikZ poster:

tikz_poster_wave.png (121.77 KiB) Viewed 5298 times

Other styles with this class (scroll the big images, save, or open in a new browser tab if they would be displayed too small):

tikz_poster_themen_2.png (225.32 KiB) Viewed 5298 times

tikz_poster_themen_3.png (246.92 KiB) Viewed 5298 times

Stefan

[thorpn]

I think I was incorrect, it is the beamerposter.sty I am having trouble with - any suggestions as to what I can do ?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I guess we can see the cause if you would post

• the .lyx file as attachment
• a pdfLaTeX export file

Of cause it can be a very reduced copy.

Stefan

[thorpn]

Thank you so much for your help Stefan, you should set up a Patreon page if you havent already

Attachment uploaded

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Interesting, google returns for "\textclass beamerposter" just one match, a poster-beamerposter.lyx file.

At least this one doesn't cause a conflict ("already defined"), because it doesn't load the beamerposter package in addition, but just passes options to it:

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...
\textclass beamerposter
\begin_preamble
...
\PassOptionsToPackage{%
   orientation=portrait, % possible: portrait, landscape
    size=a0,% possible: a0b, a0, a1, a2, a3, a4, custom (with width=<val>,height=<val>)
    scale=1.4,% scaling of fonts
    debug% give verbose warnings and error messages
}{beamerposter}
...

In your case, I suggest to remove the line

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\usepackage{C:/Users/okotni/Desktop/beamerposter/beamerposter}

Stefan