INSTALL.md

Installing HYposter

The easiest way

You can use HYposter simply by keeping the beamerthemeHYposter.sty file in your working directory, and keeping the flame logo(s) you need in a subdirectory called flames.

If you also lack beamerposter, get the beamerposter.sty file from here and keep it in your working directory as well. This will of course only allow you to use the style with LaTeX documents located in that specific directory.

IMPORTANT: Some LaTeX distributions include beamerposter, but a very old version (v1.07), which does not work with this poster style. HYposter is guaranteed to work only with beamerposter v1.12! If your beamerposter is too old, you will get a warning like this: LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 3, version '2010/11/18' of package beamerposter, but only version '2008/03/11. v.1.07. beamerposter: latex-beamer poster extension' is available.

The better way

The preferred method is to add the style to your LaTeX distribution so that it is usable everywhere. The specific way to do this depends on your system.

On some LaTeX distributions there are tools to install packages. Some even automatically download missing packages from CTAN, which takes care of beamerposter, but you still need to install HYposter. Below are the manual steps to do it.

Your LaTeX packages are located under a directory called texmf somewhere on your system. Where it is exactly depends on your system and your LaTeX distribution. You need to find it yourself.

The actual steps to install both beamerposter and HYposter are:

1. Copy beamerposter.sty and beamerthemeHYposter.sty into a directory called texmf/tex/latex/beamerposter/.
2. Copy the flame graphics into texmf/tex/latex/beamerposter/flames/.
3. On most systems: run texhash or some other tool (again, depending on your LaTeX distribution) to re-index the texmf directory so that LaTeX knows where to look for the packages.

If you have Mac OS X and the MacTeX distribution, the texmf directory for user packages is ~/Library/texmf/ and one does not need to rehash anything.

The power user way

If you want to mess around with the style yourself, I suggest forking the project on Github, git-cloning it to some suitable directory and instead of copying, simply adding a symlink of beamerthemeHYposter.sty in texmf/tex/latex/beamerposter, then re-index the LaTeX distribution if necessary.