Postercode

This is the code to generate the annual photoboard.

To build the program and run it: make. This will output a file output/poster.pdf, which is the poster.

You will need to provide:

• people.dat: A file where each person has a line with the format: user:first:last:office, where user is the person's username.
• pics/ a directory with all the pictures. The picture for user user should be named pics/user.jpg.

The stampPerson method in Photoboard.java is the method to modify if you want to change the format of each person's photo/caption.

The assets/ directory contains

• The font used for the captions
• The background texture image
• The unknown-person image
• The title image

There are some old photo collections in the ~sacmuse directory on AFS. You can use these to test the script. To change the location of the pics/ directory, set the PICS_DIRECTORY variable at the top of the Makefile.

Printing the Poster

You can print the poster for about $40 at Hellen C. White College library. You will need to convert the poster.pdf to a TIFF file, since that is what they require. It usually takes a couple of hours to print.

When converting the PDF to TIFF, you can use ImageMagik. You will need to set the resolution to the highest possible. The file size will be rather large, so be prepared with a thumb drive to take to the library.