- How to create boxes with fixed header height (i.e. baseline problem depending on characters)?. Inside your theme you have to change within \setbeamertemplate{block begin} to (by Matthias Wächter, thx :-)
\begin{beamercolorbox}[center,leftskip=1cm,colsep*=.75ex]{block title}%
\usebeamerfont*{block title}%
{\rule[-0.4ex]{0mm}{2ex}\insertblocktitle}%
\end{beamercolorbox}%
- How to create boxes with fixed height (e.g. 20cm)?
Inside your theme you have to change within
\setbeamertemplate{block begin}to
\begin{beamercolorbox}[ht=20cm,...]{block body}
- How to create boxes which are filled until the bottom of the poster? I don't know, because this here doesn't work:
\setlength{\rest}{\textheight}
\addtolength{\rest}{-\pagetotal}
\vskip\rest
Please write me an email if you know how.
- Can I use beamerposter to generate LaTeX beamer 16:9 slides in an aspect ratio for a 16:9 projector or a widescreen TV? In principle yes (there might be better ways to solve this problem), just check that your width and height ratio is close to 1.78 (16:9) and try different and small font scale values, e.g.
\usepackage[orientation=landscape,size=custom,width=16,height=9,scale=0.5,debug]{beamerposter}
- my printer doesn't support borderless printing, how can I change the margin values? Simply use the pdfnup tool with negative trim values, e.g.
pdfnup --nup 1x1 --trim "-44mm -44mm -44mm -44mm" myposter.pdf
Another option might be to use the pgfpages package (works for DIN sized posters, by Florian Hengstberger :-)
\usepackage[orientation=landscape,size=a0,scale=1.5]{beamerposter}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\pgfpagesuselayout{resize to}[a0paper,landscape,border shrink=10mm]