our wonderful friend Microsoft Powerpoint
Recently I had to turn in a poster presentation for a geography class at Hong Kong University. At first I thought it would be the same as in elementary and middle school, when I would buy a cardboard poster from Office Depot, stick on a few pages and graphics and call it a day. However, at HKU the professor wanted me to finish and print out the paper from the computer! I had never done this before but after doing some research and help from my classmates I pulled everything together. Here are some helpful tips if you want to print a poster using Microsoft Powerpoint ( for those that are skilled with Photoshop, your probably much more knowledgeable than just making a poster).
1. Know your poster size. i had to print out and do an A1 poster ( which is used quite commonly in Asia) which was quite confusing at first. Simply google up poster size on wikipedia and record the necessary data. You find the chart here.
2. Open Powerpoint and go throughFile->Page Setup. Under Page Setup add in the specified dimensions. Landscape makes your poster wider while portrait makes your poster longer.
3. Now you have your A1 Poster. You can know find templates to setup your project or you can just start from scratch. Something helpful for geography posters is to take charts or tables and rip them onto the poster. On a PDF file, simply go to Tools->Select and Zoom-> Snapshot. Just highlight the area and you can copy and paste it into a Word or Powerpoint file.
4. After you finish, you have to have a special printer or a print shop to print it out.
Hope these hints help!
