poster.tex

\PassOptionsToPackage{table}{xcolor}
\documentclass[portrait,final,a0paper,fontscale=0.320]{imiseposter}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}% change to ngerman for a German poster
%\microtypecontext{spacing=nonfrench}
% Using biblatex and biber. It's more modern but takes more than twice as long to compile in my case. ****
% If you use biblatex, you need to comment and uncomment the marked statements in the references as well.
%\usepackage{csquotes}
%\usepackage[style=numeric,backend=biber]{biblatex}
%\addbibresource{poster.bib}
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\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{url}% do not use hyperref as its links are displaced with baposter because of the font scale 

\usepackage{blindtext}% remove for production

% Select Font %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%\usepackage{helvet} % closest to arial
\usepackage{bookman} % has some resemblance to Futura
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\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}

\newcommand{\captionfont}{\footnotesize}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{poster}% Set grid to false for final print
  {grid=true,}
  % Eye Catcher
  {\includegraphics[height=4.5cm]{img/medfak.pdf}} 
  % Title
  {This title may span one or multiple lines}
  % Authors
  {First Author{\small <first.author@imise.uni-leipzig.de>}, Another Author, Another Author}
  {}
  % University logo
  {% The makebox allows the title to flow into the logo, this is a hack because of the L shaped logo.
    %\includegraphics[height=9.0em]{img/medfak.pdf}
  }

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\begin{posterbox}[name=background,column=0,row=0]{Background}
Some text~\cite{bb} and some more text~\cite{ob} and even more text~\cite{he}.
\blindtext
\end{posterbox}
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\begin{posterbox}[name=methods,below=background]{Methods}
\Blindtext
\end{posterbox}
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\begin{posterbox}[name=results,column=1]{Results}
\Blindtext
\end{posterbox}
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\begin{posterbox}[name=discussion,column=1,below=results]{Discussion}
\blindtext
\end{posterbox}
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\begin{posterbox}[name=references,column=0,below=methods]{References}
    \small
    \begingroup
    \renewcommand{\section}[2]{}%suppress heading
    % using bibtex ***********
    \bibliographystyle{abbrv}
    \begin{raggedright} % you can comment this out if you don't get hbox badness with justified bibliography
	\bibliography{poster}
	\end{raggedright}
    % using biblatex *********
    %\printbibliography
    %*************************
    \endgroup
    \vspace{0.3em}
    Myproject is supported under the DFG grant numbers 1234/5-6 and 6543/2-1.
  \end{posterbox}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% IMISE Logo
 \node [anchor=south east, inner sep=1pt,xshift=-26em] at (current page.south east)
 {\includegraphics[height=0.03\textheight]{img/imise-logo.pdf}
 };
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% DFG Logo, remove or replace if your project is funded by a different organization 
 \node [anchor=south east, inner sep=1pt,xshift=-2.5em] at (current page.south east) % for unknown reasons the xshift is necessary
 {\includegraphics[height=0.03\textheight]{img/dfg-logo.pdf}
 };
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\end{poster}
\end{document}