Latex Posters

If you're making research posters for conferences or academic events, this handles the full LaTeX workflow using beamerposter, tikzposter, or baposter. The real value here is the strict emphasis on AI-generated visuals first, then assembling them in LaTeX, which is the right way to build modern posters. It's opinionated about preventing the classic mistakes: text overflow at edges, cramming too many sections into one poster, and tiny unreadable fonts in diagrams. The content overflow rules are especially practical, like limiting A0 posters to 5-6 sections max and 300-800 words total. It pushes you to generate simple graphics with giant text (120pt+) and minimal elements, which actually matches how posters get viewed at conferences from several feet away.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills --skill latex-posters --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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LaTeX Research Posters

Create a conference-sized PDF from scientific content, editable LaTeX, and verified figures. Use for new posters, paper-to-poster adaptation, institutional templates, and poster compilation or print preflight.

Choose the poster package

Package	Use when	Reviewed target
beamerposter	Beamer blocks or institutional Beamer themes fit the project	CTAN 1.13
tikzposter	TikZ styling and automatically stacked blocks are useful	CTAN 2.0
baposter	A supplied project uses its named, relative-positioned boxes	Archived class v2.0, 2011/11/26; upstream site unavailable at review

The three bundled templates were compiled locally with pdfLaTeX (TeX Live 2025) and inspected using Poppler 26.09.0. baposter was tested using the pinned archival source described in references/latex_poster_packages.md. Do not interpret an old stable package version as proof of current tagged-PDF support. Other reference snippets are illustrative building blocks unless explicitly tested; they require the indicated class, packages, actual data, and figure files.