Poster making

	This directory contains a LaTeX style file and patches for Tomas
Rokicki's dvips to allow you to produce posters:  big text on big
pages.  The style file defines big PostScript fonts, continuing in the
style of the psfonts.sty file distributed with dvips.  The patches
modify dvips to define a "poster" special, which allows a large page to
be printed on several sheets of paper, which you can then cut and paste
into a poster.  The difference from other poster schemes is that once you 
figure out how big you want your poster, you put that information into
your .tex file and can then run dvips without remembering what you
decided.  Also included here are a user's guide and a sample poster.  

Here you should find:

	README		these comments
	monster.sty	LaTeX style file for LaTeX 2.09 defining big fonts, 
			 as an add-on to psfonts.sty.
	monster2e.sty	LaTeX package for LaTeX2e defining big fonts
	patch.dvips???	A patch file for version ??? of dvips
	posters.tex, example*.ps
			A user's guide, and included PostScript figures
			 (using psfig!  Sorry about that!).  You don't
			 need anything from this kit to process the
			 document.  If you don't have the psfig macros,
			 you can get them from whitechapel.media.mit.edu.
	banner.tex, banner2e.tex, banner.ps
			Example LaTeX files and dvips output.

	Put monster.sty in your TEXINPUTS directory.  Big versions of
some Computer Modern fonts are named, in case you need capital Greek
letters or math symbols.  Make sure that your MakeTeXPK script is
working, so that these pixel files can be built if necessary.

	Apply the patches in the dvips source directory, using Larry
Wall's patch program:

	patch < poster.patchwhatever

The patches have been tested under SunOS, Solaris 2, VAX/VMS, and
Alpha/OpenVMS with letter and A4 sized pages, and the output
PostScript has been previewed with Ghostscript and Sun's pageview.

	I would be happy to receive your comments and suggestions for
improvements.

Harry Payne                           Internet: payne@stsci.edu
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