I edited these indications. -Berthe Y. Choueiry choueiry@cse.unl.edu _______________________ Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 20:58:31 -0500 From: Ryan Lim Subject: How to make a poster Here is a simple how-to instruction how to make a poster. Any feedback/comments, email me. Make sure you have the material you want to present in the poster. Decide what your main message is. Organize your material and thought. Getting your blank poster ========================= 1) Open up Microsoft PowerPoint 2) Create a blank presentation. 3) Add a new blank slide. 4) Go to the File menu, Page Setup, then setup your poster width and height. Better yet: Use one of the templates produced by the lab members. Making your poster ================== Organize your material. Posters should have more figures than words. Fonts and color use: -------------------- Fonts must be chosen carefully. Use TrueType fonts or 'scalable' fonts that can have varying sizes without rough edges. Examples of TrueType fonts include Arial and Verdana. In PowerPoint, TrueType fonts can be easily distinguished by the "TT" icons next to the font name. Your poster should be readable from about 6 feet away. - Use Arial font. - Use at most 3 different fonts and 3 different colors. - Do not use font size smaller than 24 in your poster. - In figures do not use font less than 14 (16 is better). - Create all figures in powerpoint: they show better on poster. Figures: -------- Figures should be clear. Avoid using using jpeg/gif figures as they cannot be scaled. Instead: - draw out your figures in PowerPoint - use Excel for the graphs or charts. Figures and graphs should have captions. Do not number the captions. If you absolutely must use figures that cannot be drawn in PowerPoint, make sure your figure is very clear and is not blurry. You can scale the image in PowerPoint, but make sure the quality does not deteriorate. Layout:2 ------- Organize your layout. Make your poster readable and legible. It should be concise and succinct. A poster is not a paper so, avoid using paragraphs. Bullet/enumerated points are sufficient. Provide sufficient space between points and sections. Minimize distractions on your poster. Section headings: - Should stand out. (i.e.: bold text, strong background color) Poster background and text: - Should have sufficient contrast so that your work is more legible and interesting. Poster printing =============== Test your poster document before printing. When you do a test print, check the "Scale to fit paper" checkbox in the print dialog box. This is just a miniature preview of what your poster will look like. If you want a full size preview, print your document to the Acrobad PDF printer (available in our lab PC) and set it to tile your poster sections. If you are satisfied with your poster, send it to the printers. Submit to the printers two files: - PPT generated with Powerpoint - PDF generated with Adobe Acrobat Ask them to print the one that will yield better results. Talk to the printers before submitting your print job. Ask them about print dimensions. Request them to print your poster glossy AND laminated. Known available printers are: - UNL Design Center (Henzlik Hall), idc2@unl.edu, 472-2258 - Kinkos Misc ==== Poster samples are available from: - consystlab.unl.edu/Posters - ConSystLab website (http://consystlab.unl.edu) under the "Poster presentation" section. - Ryan Lim - Ask for Dr. Choueiry's 'archives' Need help? Talk to Ryan. More info: - http://www.aspb.org/education/poster.cfm -- Ryan Lim http://cse.unl.edu/~rlim PGP publickey: http://cse.unl.edu/~rlim/publickey.txt ___________________________________________________________________ This message was posted through the mailing list consystlab@cse.unl.edu of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe consystlab" to majordomo@cse.unl.edu.