CTAN has a new package: beamerposter

[CTAN Announcements]

This package has been put up at tug.ctan.org.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: beamerposter
Author's name: Philippe Dreuw
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/beamerposter
Summary description: The beamerposter package is an extension of the LaTeX 
  beamer and the a0poster classes in order to create custom sized LaTeX 
  posters, e.g. a double DIN-A0 size LaTeX poster in landscape or portrait 
  orientation. Furthermore it is possible to scale the poster fonts to your 
  needs.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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The LaTeX beamerposter package is an extension of the LaTeX beamer and 
the  a0poster classes in order to create LaTeX posters, e.g. a DIN-A0 
size LaTeX poster in landscape or portrait orientation. Furthermore it 
is possible to scale the poster fonts to your needs. 

The package allows you to benefit from the nice color box handling and 
alignment in the beamer class (e.g. with rounded corners and shadows) 
in order to create quite fast pretty conference posters.

Features:
    * scalable fonts using the fp and type1cm packages
    * posters in DIN-A0, DIN-A1, DIN-A2, DIN-A3, DIN-A4, and custom
      sizes like double DIN-A0 possible
    * still applicable to custom beamer slides, e.g. 16:9 slides for 
      a widescreen (i.e. 1.78 aspect ratio)
    * orientation: landscape or portrait
    * debug mode
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamerposter
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/beamerposter
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .