# Beamer , conference poster change the header area

I am making a conference poster using a template provided in this link. http://www.njohnston.ca/2009/08/latex-poster-template/

I want to reduce the size of the header area ( Title area), may be by reducing the font size and spacing. How can I change those parameters?

• if you look in beamerthemeconfposter.sty (provided in the .zip file in your link) you should be able to tweak lines 182-201 to suit your needs Nov 12 '13 at 20:26
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As @cmhughes pointed out in his comment, you can tweak the beamerthemeconfposter.sty. Just include the following lines somewhere after \usetheme{confposter}. The lines you might first want to try changing them are marked with % CHANGE this line ...

%==============================================================================
% build the poster title
%==============================================================================
\leavevmode
\begin{columns}
\begin{column}{\linewidth}
\vskip1cm
\centering
\Huge % CHANGE this line for the size of the title
{\textbf{\inserttitle}}\\[0.5ex]}
\Large % CHANGE this line for the size of the author
{\insertauthor}\\[1ex]}
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