How to typeset a wide figure spanning multiple columns in a 'sciposter' documentclass?

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i need to make a figure span two or three columns inside a sciposter documentclass, and be positioned at the bottom of the page (not flowing)

Can you provide a base document we as a community can work with? — Werner, Aug 09 '21 at 04:48
One can always let one column overlap the others using \vfill\noindent\rlap{...} — John Kormylo, Aug 09 '21 at 14:59
@JohnKormylo does it only stand true for tabular environments? — ivan866, Aug 11 '21 at 10:20
@ivan866 - With tabular it is easier to use \multicolumn. No overlap needed. — John Kormylo, Aug 11 '21 at 15:06

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 08 '21 at 22:46

this is a solution with flowfram package, based on this thread; notice it requires manually presetting the frame sizes and locations, but after that, works as magic

\documentclass[a1,landscape]{sciposter}
\usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{flowfram}
\newflowframe[1]{0.33\textwidth}{0.8\textheight}
{0pt}{.1\textheight}[col1]
\newflowframe[1]{0.33\textwidth}{0.8\textheight}
{0.34\textwidth}{.1\textheight}[col2]
\newflowframe[1]{0.33\textwidth}{\textheight}
{0.67\textwidth}{.1\textheight}[col3]
\newstaticframe[1]{\textwidth}{.1\textheight}
{0pt}{.9\textheight}[frm1]
\newstaticframe[1]{0.66\textwidth}{.1\textheight}
{0pt}{0pt}[frm2]
\title{poster title}
\begin{document}
\begin{staticcontents}{frm1}
\maketitle
\end{staticcontents}
\part{part I}
text 1
\section{section 1}
text 2
\begin{staticcontents}{frm2}
\begin{figure}
    \centering{\includegraphics[width=5in]{c:/img/img01}}
    \caption{figure caption}
\end{figure}
\end{staticcontents}
\end{document}

How to typeset a wide figure spanning multiple columns in a 'sciposter' documentclass?

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