[ams6110]

It would also be nice if someone built a layout app for scientific posters. I'm not sure why but the prevailing approach seems to be to cram absolutely as much text and graphic content as you can onto the poster, with no line spacing or margins. They are absolutely unreadable.

[julienchastang]

Having just gone down this road, here is the tech stack I used for putting together a scientific conference paper: emacs / org-mode / beamer / beamerposter.sty. I had to do a bit of reverse engineering from tex back to org-mode to determine the proper org-mode properties to have the beamer layout I wanted -- if that makes any sense. I also poked around in ox-beamer.el. In addition, I used Omnigraffle and the Gimp for graphics. I am happy with the end result, and the original org-mode file is clean and manageable. And, yes, less verbiage, the better for conference posters.

[iak8god]

This sounds interesting. Do you happen to have this up in a repository somewhere? I would love to use this set of tools, am familiar with beamer for slide decks, use omni and gimp for graphics, etc ... but currently just end up making my posters in a powerpoint template, which feels dirty.

[julienchastang]

https://github.com/Unidata/xsede-jetstream/tree/master/.org/...

[iak8god]

Thanks!

[chuckleMuscle]

Personally I just put together a PowerPoint presentation and stick that up (as many A4 pages!). That seems to work better than the standard wall of text on one massive piece of paper, but can be seen as low effort by some people.

[jgamman]

or size it as A1 in ppt and get a nice print job for $25. but agree, the problem with most posters isn't sharing, it's the fact it is often the first step a grad student is taking in sci-communication. if i could wave a magic wand, it would be that their supervisors take the @#$!@3@$ opportunity to you know, like, help them.

[couac]

haha I do agree with you!