UCL poster class for LaTeX

by Rob Stanley [email protected]

A poster class for LaTeX that follows the UCL Corporate Identity.

This package is unofficial and is not supported by UCL.

Only compilation with XeLaTeX is currently supported.

Installation and usage

Copy the uclposter.cls file to the directory containing the poster LaTeX file. No additional files are needed (the banner/logo is included entirely as vector drawing code).

An example of how the class is used is given in the example.tex file.

Optional class options

• portrait / landscape (the orientation of the poster)
• bannerheight = ⟨length⟩ (the height of the banner)
• logoheight = ⟨length⟩ (the height of the UCL logo)
• margin = ⟨length⟩ (the margin and column separation)
• color = ⟨colour⟩ (the main banner colour)
• inverttitle (switches the banner font colour and the portico icon colour to black)

Additional information

• Multiple columns are supported by the \multicol{⟨number⟩} command from the multicol package.
• Authors and affiliations can be added with the \author[⟨indices⟩]{⟨name⟩} and \affil[⟨index⟩]{⟨institution name⟩} commands from the authblk package.
• A 'highlight box' environment can be generated with the \begin{highlightbox}[⟨color⟩] ... \end{highlightbox} commands.
• The mathspec package is used to typeset in Helvetica, and so only compliation with XeLaTeX is currently supported.
• The tikz package is used to draw the header (converted from UCL supplied .eps files), and so no additional image files are required.

Defined colours

The UCL colour palette has been defined as LaTeX colours for use in the banner and elsewhere.