\documentclass[10pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tritricks}
%%
%
% This is a poster template with latex macros and using
% the University of Florida Logo.  For further information
% on making postscript, resizeing, and printing the poster file
% please see web site
% http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~pjh/posters/poster_howto.html
%
% N.B. This format is cribbed from one obtained from the University
% of Karlsruhe, so some macro names and parameters are in German
% Here is a short glossary:
% Breite: width
% Hoehe: height
% Spalte: column
% Kasten: box
%
% All style files necessary are part of standard TeTeX distribution
% On the UF unix cluster you should not need to import these files
% specially, as they will be automatically located.  If you
% run on a local PC however, you will need to locate these files.
% At UF try /usr/local/TeTeX...
%
% P. Hirschfeld 2/11/00
%
% The recommended procedure is to first generate a ``Special Format" size poster
% file, which is relatively easy to manipulate and view.  It can be
% resized later to A0 (900 x 1100 mm) full poster size, or A4 or Letter size
% as desired (see web site).  Note the large format printers currently
% in use at UF's OIR have max width of about 90cm or 3 ft., but the paper
% comes in rolls so the length is variable.  See below the specifications
% for width and height of various formats.  Default in the template is
% ``Special Format",  with 4 columns.
%%
%%
%% Choose your poster size:
%% For printing you will later RESIZE your poster by a factor
%%        2*sqrt(2) = 2.828    (for A0)
%%        2         = 2.00     (for A1)
%%
%%
\def\breite{450mm}     % Special Format.
\def\hoehe{319.2mm}      % Scaled by 2.82 this gives 110cm x 90cm
\def\anzspalten{4}
%%
%%\def\breite{420mm}     % A3 LANDSCAPE
%%\def\hoehe{297mm}
%%\def\anzspalten{4}
%%
%% \def\breite{297mm}     % A3 PORTRAIT
%% \def\hoehe{420mm}
%% \def\anzspalten{3}
%%
%% \def\breite{210mm}     % A4 PORTRAIT
%% \def\hoehe{297mm}
%% \def\anzspalten{2}
%%
%%
%% Procedure:
%%   Generate poster.dvi with latex
%%   Check with Ghostview
%%   Make a .ps-file with ``dvips -o poster.ps poster''
%%   Scale it with poster_resize poster.ps S
%%   where S is scale factor
%%     for Special Format->A0 S= 2.828 (= 2^(3/2)))
%%     for Special Format->A1 S= 2 (= 2^(2/2)))
%%
%% Sizes (European:)
%%   A3: 29.73 X 42.04 cm
%%   A1: 59.5 X 84.1 cm
%%   A0: 84.1 X 118.9 cm
%%   N.B. The recommended procedure is ``Special Format x 2.82"
%%   which gives 90cm x 110cm (not quite A0 dimensions).
%%
%% --------------------------------------------------------------------------
%%
%% Load the necessary packages
%%
\usepackage{palatino}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{epsf}
\usepackage{graphicx,psfrag,color,pstcol,pst-grad}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{ifthen}
%%
%% Define the required numbers, lengths and boxes
%%
\newsavebox{\dummybox}
\newsavebox{\spalten}
%\input psfig.sty

%%
%%
\newlength{\bgwidth}\newlength{\bgheight}
\setlength\bgheight{\hoehe} \addtolength\bgheight{-1mm}
\setlength\bgwidth{\breite} \addtolength\bgwidth{-1mm}

\newlength{\kastenwidth}

%% Set paper format
\setlength\paperheight{\hoehe}
\setlength\paperwidth{\breite}
\special{papersize=\breite,\hoehe}

\topmargin -1in
\marginparsep0mm
\marginparwidth0mm
\headheight0mm
\headsep0mm


%% Minimal Margins to Make Correct Bounding Box
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-2.44cm}
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-3mm}
\textwidth\paperwidth
\textheight\paperheight

%%
%%
\parindent0cm
\parskip1.5ex plus0.5ex minus 0.5ex
\pagestyle{empty}




\definecolor{recoilcolor}{rgb}{1,0,0}
\definecolor{occolor}{rgb}{0,1,0}
\definecolor{pink}{rgb}{0,1,1}





\def\UberStil{\normalfont\sffamily\bfseries\large}
\def\UnterStil{\normalfont\sffamily\small}
\def\LabelStil{\normalfont\sffamily\tiny}
\def\LegStil{\normalfont\sffamily\tiny}

%%
%% Define some commands
%%
\definecolor{JG}{rgb}{0.1,0.9,0.3}

\newenvironment{kasten}{%
  \begin{lrbox}{\dummybox}%
    \begin{minipage}{0.96\linewidth}}%
    {\end{minipage}%
  \end{lrbox}%
  \raisebox{-\depth}{\psshadowbox[framesep=1em]{\usebox{\dummybox}}}\\[0.5em]}
\newenvironment{spalte}{%
  \setlength\kastenwidth{1.2\textwidth}
  \divide\kastenwidth by \anzspalten
  \begin{minipage}[t]{\kastenwidth}}{\end{minipage}\hfill}

\renewcommand{\emph}[1]{{\color{red}\textbf{#1}}}


\def\op#1{\hat{#1}}
\begin{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%               Background                     %%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
{\newrgbcolor{gradbegin}{0.5 0.5 1}%
  \newrgbcolor{gradend}{1 1 1}%{1 1 0.5}%
  \psframe[fillstyle=gradient,gradend=gradend,%
  gradbegin=gradbegin,gradmidpoint=0.1](\bgwidth,-\bgheight)}
\vfill
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%                     Header                   %%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\hfill
\psshadowbox{\makebox[0.95\textwidth]{%

	\input{header}
  
\hfill}}\hfill\mbox{}\\[1.cm]
%\vspace*{1.3cm}
\begin{lrbox}{\spalten}
  \parbox[t][\textheight]{1.3\textwidth}{%
    \vspace*{0.2cm}
    \hfill
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%                 first column                 %%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    \begin{spalte}   
		\input{col1}    
    \end{spalte} 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%               second column                  %%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    \begin{spalte}   
		\input{col2} 
    \end{spalte} 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%               third column                   %%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    \begin{spalte}
		\input{col3}
    \end{spalte}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%               fourth column                  %%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    \begin{spalte}
		\input{col4}
    \end{spalte}
    }
    \end{lrbox}
\resizebox*{0.98\textwidth}{!}{%
  \usebox{\spalten}}\hfill\mbox{}\vfill
\end{document}


