PowerPoint® Posters - The Eight Most Important Tips
Set up your slide to a size that is proportional to the final printed size
(our templates are already setup for you). For example, if your poster is to be
90"X42", set up the PowerPoint® slide for 45"X21" (in this case, half-size).
Please note: PowerPoint® was designed with a 56" upper limit.
Be careful with fonts. We recommend "Arial" for sans-serif and "Times Roman" (not "Times New Roman") for serif fonts.
Use the "Symbol" font for Greek.
Tables and text can be copied from Word® and pasted into
PowerPoint® text boxes. You can then select and change font type and size as needed.
When Excel® charts are required: from within Excel®, select your chart,
use edit-copy, and then edit-paste into PowerPoint®.
The chart can then be stretched to fit as required. If you need to edit parts of the chart, it will probably need to be ungrouped.
Don't use color backgrounds for your poster. They look fine for screen presentations but really detract from wide format
printed material.
Images saved in a tif or jpg format will work best. Use "insert-picture-from file" when inserting your images.
Photographs and other scanned images should be about 100 dpi in their final size. For example, a scanned
2"X4" image that will become 4"X8" on the poster should be scanned at 200 dpi.
If your image looks poor on the screen, it will almost certainly look worse when printed.
Make sure the contents of your poster fall within the slide's borders. Anything that falls outside the slide's borders
will not print to the final poster.
Quark® or Illustrator®
- If you're creating files in Quark® or Illustrator® you probably
don't need our help to set up your file. Just be sure to create your poster to either full size or some proportional size for final output.
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