beamerposter – Extend beamer and a0poster for custom sized posters

The pack­age en­ables the user to use beamer style op­er­a­tions on a can­vas of the sizes pro­vided by a0­poster; font scal­ing is avail­able (us­ing pack­ages such as type­1cm if nec­es­sary).
In ad­di­tion, the pack­age al­lows the user to ben­e­fit from the nice colour box han­dling and align­ment pro­vided by the beamer class (for ex­am­ple, with rounded cor­ners and shad­ows). Good look­ing posters may be cre­ated very rapidly.
Fea­tures in­clude: – scal­able fonts us­ing the fp and type­1cm pack­ages; – posters in A-se­ries sizes, and cus­tom sizes like dou­ble A0 are pos­si­ble; – still ap­pli­ca­ble to cus­tom beamer slides, e.g. 16:9 slides for a wide-screen (i.e. 1.78 as­pect ra­tio); – ori­en­ta­tion may be por­trait or land­scape; – a ‘de­bug mode’ is pro­vided.