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Microsoft PowerPoint was originally designed for created slide presentations, not posters. But it can also be used to create a poster. When you create a poster with PowerPoint, you are creating the poster on only ONE slide (a very large slide). Sfz sample player os x.
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NOTE: PowerPoint for Macintosh versions 2016 and 2011 are very similar. This section describes both. Screenshots from the 2011 version may differ slightly from the 2016 version but the features work the same way.
PowerPoint 2016 includes a few new features. Features unique to 2016 are identified below by the highlighted text New for 2016.
The following are steps and techniques to get you started creating your poster in PowerPoint.
Getting Started
Click on the PowerPoint icon in the dock, or double-click on the 'Microsoft Powerpoint.app' in the Applications folder on your Macintosh. The 'Powerpoint Presentation Gallery' appears. In most cases (unless you have previously created a template you want to use), choose to create a new presentation with a white background by clicking the 'White' thumbnail in the list of themes.
Or if you are editing a presentation you previously created you can click on its name in the 'Recent Presentations' at the bottom of the left-hand column of the window.
Alternatively, you can click 'Cancel' and a new, blank presentation will appear. Or you can go to the File menu and choose 'New Presentation' or 'Open..'.
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A new PowerPoint document appears. By default, it shows text entry boxes for a title slide.
Above the document window, a formatting toolbar or 'ribbon' appears. Above the toolbar is a row of tabs (Home, Themes, Tables, Charts, etc.)
Set up your page and work area
Click the Home tab. Then click on the Slides Layout drop-down menu and then click on the 'Blank' thumbnail. This will remove the 'Title' and 'Subtitle' text boxes on the slide, with you probably don't need to use. (You can also delete them by selecting them (click and drag over the them with the mouse cursor) and pressing the delete key.
Next set your poster size by clicking on the Themes tab, then click on 'Page Setup' Slide Size' and choose 'Page Setup..'.
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In the Page Setup dialog, enter the dimensions of your poster.
NOTE: PowerPoint will only accept sizes up to 56 X 56 inches. If your poster is larger than that, create the poster at half size. Then when you print it, print at 200%. For example, if you set the size at 20' X 40' and print the poster at 200%, it will end up being 40' X 80'.
If you are not currently connected to a large format printer, the following dialog box may appear. Click OK if you know you will be printing it on large format printer that can print at your desired size.
To make your workspace less cluttered, you may want to remove the slide thumbnails and a notes panes from your document window. You can do this by dragging the handles on the edges of these areas to the left and to the bottom, as shown below.
Here is the way the work area looks without the thumbnails and notes window panes:
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If one has iWork, it perhaps makes more sense to do one's posters in Pages -- the page size can be set directly in inches or centimeters, rather than in pixels, and there is access to all of the graphics tools that Keynote has.
While users have been using Powerpoint to generate posters for well over a decade, it was primarily due to a lack of page layout capability in the MS Office suite. In iWork, I agree that this task should be done in Pages and not in Keynote.
Templates are available on the web.
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Mac User & Enthusiast for over 20 Years!
Templates are available on the web.
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Mac User & Enthusiast for over 20 Years!
I have to agree with the two above!
This 'hint' should be changed to:
If you consider doing any printjob in Keynote (or PowerPoint) then slap yourself and open Pages instead. It will save you a Lot of trouble and workarounds!
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/Marook
This 'hint' should be changed to:
If you consider doing any printjob in Keynote (or PowerPoint) then slap yourself and open Pages instead. It will save you a Lot of trouble and workarounds!
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/Marook
Hi all,
I've been using both Keynotes n Pages for print purpose. From small prints to poster size or even banners.
However, I only used it for design purpose. After I'm done with it, I wud usually export it to PDF and then open it in Illustrator for better control of sizing and cropping. The neat thing about iWork's export to PDF, it preserves everything.
I've been using both Keynotes n Pages for print purpose. From small prints to poster size or even banners.
However, I only used it for design purpose. After I'm done with it, I wud usually export it to PDF and then open it in Illustrator for better control of sizing and cropping. The neat thing about iWork's export to PDF, it preserves everything.
you lose image quality if you do that.
The Save as PDF function of the print dialog loses image quality. But Pages includes its own separate Export to PDF function, which creates much higher quality PDFs.
I have to agree with the first 3 commentators, bad hint. Use Pages.
Aside from the obvious 'use pages' comment that is 100% on the money. I have another issue:
72 DPI?!?!?!
Epson called, they want their MX-80 back, but you can keep the big box of pin-feed paper under your desk.
Sheldon
72 DPI?!?!?!
Epson called, they want their MX-80 back, but you can keep the big box of pin-feed paper under your desk.
Sheldon
Obviously the 72 DPI is not the internal representation of the text and graphics in Keynote. It's only for the sake of the rulers and page size. I recently did a poster that was 6' x 4'. Because all the imported graphics were in PDF format along with the text it came out nice and sharp.
Keynote isn't a bad tool to use if, like me, a poster is the least important part of the project. No need to search for templates, just hammer it out using one of the nice included ones. It will still look better than most of the PowerPoint generated posters.
Keynote isn't a bad tool to use if, like me, a poster is the least important part of the project. No need to search for templates, just hammer it out using one of the nice included ones. It will still look better than most of the PowerPoint generated posters.
While I fully agree with the comments that a presentation tool should not be used to make posters, I have to point out that Apple themselves have not been above releasing WWDC poster templates in both Keynote and Powerpoint format:
http://www.apple.com/science/poster/WWDC_Poster_Templates.zip
http://www.apple.com/science/poster/WWDC_Poster_Templates.zip
Sorry dude but that formula of yours isn't quite correct at all, I've got to make a poster and the results isn't very exactly. I'm not saying is not useful is just that it isn´t perfect :S , I'm just saying is just one part of the process..
I found another way to size your slide poster style.. first you got to go to Keynote-Preferences and click on the tab 'rulers', on the first box where it says 'ruler units', choose either centimeters or inches instead of pixels and un-check the other two boxes below, leave alone all the other options.
Once you do that go to the menu bar-View-Show Ruler; the ruler will show in the units you ask for in past step. so there you are.. you are going to have your ruler show on your slide so you can achieved the size you're looking for with exact measurements.. obviously the only way to do this is by changing the width and height on pixels unit as told before, so the formula given before could make this important approach to exact size you´re looking for..
I found another way to size your slide poster style.. first you got to go to Keynote-Preferences and click on the tab 'rulers', on the first box where it says 'ruler units', choose either centimeters or inches instead of pixels and un-check the other two boxes below, leave alone all the other options.
Once you do that go to the menu bar-View-Show Ruler; the ruler will show in the units you ask for in past step. so there you are.. you are going to have your ruler show on your slide so you can achieved the size you're looking for with exact measurements.. obviously the only way to do this is by changing the width and height on pixels unit as told before, so the formula given before could make this important approach to exact size you´re looking for..
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great info thanks, although the inspector palette is to the far right (not left), having not been in Keynote for a while this error caused me some confusion!
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