I would like to design a Poster for a medical meeting.

[Guest]

Poster in Powerpoint size 1 meter wide and 2 meter deep.
Can someone tell me how best to desing a template for it.

Thank you.

Abdul Basit

 

[Guest]

We do posters through powerpoint all the time. We print it to an internal
networked Plotter printer that has rolled paper.

Goto File, Page Set-up
Select CUSTOM for slide size and enter the exact width/height of the
finished poster
Based on your size, you need to then pick LANDSCAPE OR PORTRAIT.
Select OK

Powerpoint will set up a VERY LARGE slide for you. It will be odd working
on such as large area-- you need to be careful about your FONTs-- you may be
working with Font Size of 178 and clip art images of 6"x8" or even 12"x18".
You will need to ZOOM in to 400% just to see your work too...
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Tips:
1) Set up your page size BEFORE designing the poster.

2) If you are using ROLL paper, know the size of the roll of paper as that
will limit one side of your poster. Roll paper is usually in 24" or 36"
paper. We have 36" paper and I design for a 34" poster at maxium along one
side. I always seem to have problems when I tried to go to the edge of the
paper.

3) Print DIRECT 1:1 ratio. If you are comfortable with ratios: you can
design at a 30%, 40% or 50% image and then enlarge to your final size through
the printer but you have to DESIGN the poster at a reduced ratio of the final
size.

4) If you are sending your file out to be printed at a shop or at Kinko's,
talk to them first-- a few minutes with them will save lots of time later...

 

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Christine: I have a question for you --- I have a bunch of posters,
typically 42 X 30, that have been done in PPT and want to put them on to a
website for a virtual poster session. I've turned them into jpg files and
made thumbnail images which I hoped viewers would click on to see a readable
computer screen size version of the original poster. I've also tried doing
a pdf of the original poster but nothing I have done give me what I want.
Can you help?

 

[Guest]

Nana- I don't understand want you want-- and I am not familiar with a virtual
poster session. I do know that when you PDF a poster size powerpoint file,
it usually defaults to 8.5 x 11 size in the PDF. I am not sure how to POST
poster-size images. Why would you do this? (I'm not a web person)