# Poster instructions

## Dependencies

This poster requires pdflatex been installed.
In addition, some styles are needed.

Fedora:

    dnf install texlive texlive-a0poster texlive-wrapfig texlive-fira \
        texlive-newtx texlive-ebgaramond-maths texlive-standalone texlive-tikzposter texlive-xstring

Debian/Ubuntu:

    sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra texlive-pictures pgf

## Rasterization

To create a rasterized version (some plotters have trouble with the PDF)
use

    make rasterize

You can use this file to create a small PNG of the poster. It is best
rescaled in Gimp using Sinc (Lanczos3) method.

To create a minimum size image which will be still readable (although
not necessarily nice) use:

    # renders fonts with low quality
    gs -sDEVICE=png16m -dDownScaleFactor=2 -r50 \
        -o poster.png poster.pdf
    # optimizes compression
    optipng -o9 poster.png
    # simplify colors (destroys some colors, esp. gradients)
    pngnq -n 128 -s 3 poster.png
    # overwrite the original file
    mv poster-nq8.png poster.png