Making Slides with LaTeX
While doing slides for one class I am in I had to get myself familiar
with the
seminar
documentclass that was developed by
Timothy P. Van
Zandt. The
User
Guide is a good document to refer to while learning to use this
package. My first problem while using this was that when I created my
.ps file all the slides were uppside down (seascape instead of
landscape), but that was easely solved by putting the line
\special{! TeXDict begin /landplus90{true}store end }
in the preamble of the tex file. This seems to have something to do
with how dvips
works while converting from .dvi to .ps but according to Tom Rokicki
(the developer of dvips) the above line fixes that and it did in my
case.
Making Posters with LaTeX
To make a poster with latex use the a0poster class file, you can get
the relevant files (class and style files) from here.
Since debian doesnt distribute it but in source files, I had to
manually add them by putting those two files into
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/a0poster/ and then execute texhash
and I could start making posters with latex.
Here is a useful page with good
links at the bottom about making posters in latex.