how do I produce a 1by1m poster from a single powerpoint slide us.

[Guest]

I want to use MS powerpoint to create a decent poster, approx 1m by 1m in
full colour. I know the best way is to generate a single powerpoint slide and
send it to a big high quality printer: but I am restricted to a small a4 or
a3 printer. Is there an easy way to ask powerpoint to print out a large
poster, using small pages. For presentation I will stitch the small pages
together to create the overall effect

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I want to use MS powerpoint to create a decent poster, approx 1m by 1m in
full colour. I know the best way is to generate a single powerpoint slide and
send it to a big high quality printer: but I am restricted to a small a4 or
a3 printer. Is there an easy way to ask powerpoint to print out a large
poster, using small pages. For presentation I will stitch the small pages
together to create the overall effect

PowerPoint doesn't do this, but your printer driver may. I have an inexpensive
Epson (C84) that supposedly does what it calls "Poster printing". Choose File,
Print, pick your printer then click Properties and explore the printer's options
to see if something similar is available.

If not, do you have other graphics software? CorelDraw has been able to do this
sort of thing since forever. Other graphics programs may be able to as well.
You might be able to bring the PPT slide into one of them and print from there.

I think there are also shareware programs that do poster printing. Might want
to google for them as well if the above don't work out for you

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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