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Plotter Templates and
Design Tips
Sample presentation
templates
Created in PowerPoint, these templates are
an easy way to make a poster. Each template is a single
slide enlarged to poster size, either left blank for your
content or with sample text boxes and charts into which
you can insert information. Feel free to alter as desired.
To open a template in Internet Explorer
or Mozilla Firefox, right-click your mouse button
on the appropriate link below, select "Save Target
As" or "Save Link As," and choose where
you would like to save the PowerPoint presentation. Then,
open PowerPoint and open the file you just saved.
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Showcase
Poster Template
48" (4 ft.) wide by 40" (3.5 ft.) tall, landscape
orientation. This template conforms to the required
maximum poster size allowed into the Research
and Performance Showcase (which is 4 ft. by
4 ft.). Contains four text boxes with borders, and a
central AutoShape box with graphics inside, all of which
can be deleted/ adjusted.
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Same as the poster template above, but completely blank
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54" (4.5 ft.) wide by 40" (3.5 ft.) tall, landscape
orientation. This template is one of the largest that
PowerPoint can easily print out without going through
additional resizing steps (larger is possible, but more
difficult and is subject to resizing deformities). Note-
this poster fills a standard 4 ft. by 6 ft. or even a
4 ft. by 8 ft. board very adequately.
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48" (4 ft.) wide by
40" (3.5 ft.) tall, landscape orientation, blank
with four small E.C. logos, one in each corner. You
can keep all four or delete/copy and add as many as
you wish.
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48" (4 ft.) wide by 40" (3.5 ft.) tall, landscape
orientation, blank with with a semi-opaque faint large
E.C. logo visible in the background behind your text
and pictures.
- Multiple
PowerPoint Slides Poster, 9 Slides
50" (roughly 4 ft.) wide by 38" (roughly 3 ft.)
tall, landscape orientation. Contains nine individual
PowerPoint slides that are each 16 inches wide by 12 inches
tall. Minimal use of color.
(To put your PowerPoint
Presentation into a poster template, open your PPT file
and go to File/Save As. Under "Save As
Type" choose "Windows Metafile (*.wmf)"
and then save your file. You'll then be asked how many
slides to export in that format- choose "Every
Slide." Your slides will be saved as images
and you can insert them into a template like any other
image.)
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PowerPoint Slides Poster, 12 Slides
54" (roughly 4.5 ft.) wide by 40" (roughly 3.5
ft.) tall, landscape orientation. Contains twelve individual
PowerPoint slides that are each 16 inches wide by 12 inches
tall. Minimal use of color.
(To put your PowerPoint
Presentation into a poster template, open your PPT
file and go to File/Save As. Under "Save
As Type" choose "Windows Metafile
(*.wmf)" and then save your file. You'll
then be asked how many slides to export in that format-
choose "Every Slide." Your slides
will be saved as images and you can insert them into
a template like any other image.)
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Sample
Template A
40" (roughly 3.5ft) wide by 36" (3 ft.) tall,
landscape orientation. Features seven text boxes with
labels such as Introduction and "Objectives,"
"Population Studied," and "Discussions."
Uses color sparingly. Also includes a text box for highlighting
the funding source. One graph demonstrates findings.
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Sample
Template B
40" (roughly 3.5ft) wide by 36" (3 ft.) tall,
landscape orientation. Four text boxes with a variety
of subheadings. An organizational chart and a bar graph
display data graphically. There is space available to
display the poster number.
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Sample
Template C
56" (roughly 4.5 ft.) wide by 36" (3 ft. )
tall, landscape orientation. A template based on a presentation
by Brad
Sagarin. Four graphs in grayscale. Includes
an image that is a screenshot from a computer program
(which can be easily deleted). Four text boxes labeled
"Introduction," Method," "Results,"
and "Discussion."
Elmhurst College Logo Graphics
Hints on creating posters
Some hints from the library staff:
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Our paper width is 42 inches. However,
to avoid cutting off, it is advised that you leave a
one-inch margin on the dimensions that are controlled
by the paper width. Thus, one of your two dimensions
(height or width) should not exceed 40 inches. For example,
you can have a poster that is 60 inches long, but is
40 inches wide.
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PowerPoint has a page size limit of
56 inches. This means if you try to set your slide size
to be larger that 56 inches, PowerPoint will balk. However,
there is a way to get around this: you can set the page
size (both width and length) of your poster to exactly
half of the desired size. If you want a poster
to be 6 feet long (72 inches) and 40 inches tall, you
can go into File, Page Setup and set your
page size to be 36 inches long by 20 inches tall. Then
in the Print box, you can "Scale to Fit"
to a piece of paper that is 72 inches long and 40 inches
tall.
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You can rotate your document to landscape
as needed.
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If you are unsure whether your poster
will print properly to the desired paper side, select
the option "Shrink to Fit" in the Print
window.
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Make sure you double-check your page
setup, and ensure that the width and height you've set
up match the paper size in the Print window (edit
Paper Size as needed).
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Spell-check!
Web Sites
Web sites from a number of institutions
provide a lot of in-depth concrete information on making
and printing effective posters. These web sites, while
geared towards other institutions, contain valuable hints
for optimizing your posters and ensuring they print properly.
Please keep in mind that these documents may contain language
that does not pertain to our situation or our Lab.
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