A1 Poster Design

altin_2

Hi Guys.
In a week is my poster presentation fro my final year at Uni.
Will be a A1 poster size...
Anyone have any idea of what (free)software to use for design?
I have Microsoft Word 2007 installed in my PC, but apart from Word used extensively, and PowerPoint haven't touched the other applications.
Not sure if can do the design and printing using these formats.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you.

The_One_Who

I used PowerPoint for mine. It worked fine.

altin_2

I thought so.
Better be sure first.
Thanks.

[Deleted User]

either powerpoint or publisher would do the trick

ciderwithrosie_2

altin wrote: »

Hi Guys.
In a week is my poster presentation fro my final year at Uni.
Will be a A1 poster size...
Anyone have any idea of what (free)software to use for design?
I have Microsoft Word 2007 installed in my PC, but apart from Word used extensively, and PowerPoint haven't touched the other applications.
Not sure if can do the design and printing using these formats.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you.

I have designed lots of posters for clinicians at work when they present their projects and audits (trust me, I'm a graphic designer, LOL!). I always do them in powerpoint at A4 not slide show size and then they get them enlarged up to A1 at a printers/photocopy place.

What I tend do do is make up a set of powerpoint slides in another file which contain all the seperate info -ie, a slide each for aim, method, results, any graphs, pie charts you want to add, you can colour it at this point. Then I go to slide view and copy the 'mini' slide and paste special it as a picture into my poster file which i've already set up with headings, and coloured background, these mini sections can be made all the same size, aligned, outlined, shadowed, or you can make the graph ones bigger, add photos to the poster as well, whatever. I would do the references slide in a smaller font as it's not as important, as long as it's on there. The only drawback is that if you need to make changes to text, cut bits, you have to go back to the original slides and repaste.
It looks tiny and almost unreadable at A4 but when it's blown up it looks fine. Hope this is helpful, good luck with it.

regards CWR

scottishblondie

I always use Powerpoint to do my posters. My first time I did a poster for my PhD I had no idea what I was doing, but I used this tutorial, there are also poster templates on there which I based my design on.

ciderwithrosie_2

scottishblondie wrote: »

I always use Powerpoint to do my posters. My first time I did a poster for my PhD I had no idea what I was doing, but I used this tutorial, there are also poster templates on there which I based my design on.

That's a really helpful tutorial, which is not always the case

altin_2

I agree with ciderwithrosie..
The link is very good and explain a few things.
Thanks.

Torby

Think it might depend how complex your poster is going to be as well, my daughter used Adobe Illustrator when she did hers ( I actually work in media so she didn't have to buy the software, its already on our systems)

Stubert

I would have thought that your university computers would have Adobe Photoshop installed already... But I suspect if you hadn't thought of using that already, you probably won't know how to use it and thus it might be a bit late at this stage!

The Gimp is a free program that you can download legally that works exactly the same as Photoshop though, if you are looking for free alternatives to that!

altin_2

Thanks for your comments guys.
Managed to successfully finish the poster using PowerPoint.
Thanks.