Most of the features available in PowerPoint, such as animations, sound, hyperlinks, and whatnot are for presentations and are thus irrelevant for poster design. ![]() (It’s what we now use instead of these things.) Nevertheless, because of its wide availability PowerPoint is often used to create posters, and does a good job as long as it is set up properly. Microsoft PowerPoint was not designed for creating posters it was designed for on-screen presentations, made up of multiple slides. He also has poster templates (PowerPoint files pre-formatted as posters in various styles) available for free download. Contact Graphic Arts for details on printing costs and scheduling of printing.Īlso, check out Colin Purrington’s excellent website Designing conference posters, in particular his examples of good, bad, and creative posters. Payment is arranged when you pick up the printed poster. You can email your poster printing request to along with a PDF file of your poster. We also briefly discuss the use of LibreOffice Impress and Google Slides in poster design.Īll poster printing at Holy Cross is done by the Graphic Arts Department in the basement of Fenwick Hall. The examples are shown as they appear on the Mac, but users running PowerPoint under Windows should find similar functionality. ![]() Here we offer a few tips on how to tweak PowerPoint for optimal poster printing. For that, see the PowerPoint Help Center. While it focuses on the use of Microsoft PowerPoint to create posters, it is not a general treatise on how to use PowerPoint. ![]() This post offers some guidelines on the design and printing of academic conference posters for Holy Cross students, staff, and faculty.
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