It is advisable to check beforehand on the size of the display area or boards that will be available to you, as well as the orientation (landscape or portrait). The most popular display area (not the poster) is 4x8 feet.
Do not feel the need to fill the entire 4x8 foot display area. If your poster is the width of the entire display area, then you'll most likely block the view from your audience while presenting it. Our most popular poster sizes for a 4x8 foot display area are 36" x 72" and 36" x 54".
Photo copyright 2003 Sigma Xi Student Research Conference
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Portrait orientation is when the poster is taller than it is wide, whereas landscape is the opposite. It is wider than it is tall. We consider 36x72 and 72x36 to be one in the same size, and therefore can print either orientation and will rotate the poster accordingly to fit on the paper.
Portrait
Landscape
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Before you begin work in PowerPoint, you may want to sketch out a design on 8.5" x 11" paper ahead of time. Alternatively, you could begin with one of the templates provided on our website. This will determine how your final poster will look.
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Gather all of the text and graphics in one place so that it is easy to transfer all of the content to one PowerPoint slide. For example, you might have an existing PowerPoint multi-slide presentation you'd like to grab content from, or even your actual paper that may be a Word document.
Don't forget about your graphics and figures such as Excel graphs and photographs taken from a surgery or through a microscope. It is best to go back and get these pictures directly from the original source, rather than transferring from one software to another. If you need to scan photographs, do so in .JPG format. Do not worry about converting your graphics from RGB to CMYK mode or vice versa. Just use the original and we will print using the best method for your graphics.
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