How do I create a poster with portrait orientation, 71" tall?

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When I use page setup to create a custom poster the maximum height is 56".
Is this truely the limit, forcing me to create and then stack two posters for
the conference?
 
This may help your situation.
Print posters or other large format output
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00537.htm


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| When I use page setup to create a custom poster the maximum height is 56".
| Is this truely the limit, forcing me to create and then stack two posters
for
| the conference?
 
thanks very much, the concept of using the same proportions seems logical,
but i am skeptical that i will be able to use the proper font size on such a
small template. will give it a try on a draft.
 
Make you page size proportional to your poster size, and then print using
the fit to page option if you printer can output that size.

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| thanks very much, the concept of using the same proportions seems logical,
| but i am skeptical that i will be able to use the proper font size on such
a
| small template. will give it a try on a draft.
|
| "Michael Koerner" wrote:
|
| > This may help your situation.
| > Print posters or other large format output
| > http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00537.htm
| >
| >
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| > Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]
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| >
| > | > | When I use page setup to create a custom poster the maximum height is
56".
| > | Is this truely the limit, forcing me to create and then stack two
posters
| > for
| > | the conference?
| >
| >
| >
 
thanks very much, the concept of using the same proportions seems logical,
but i am skeptical that i will be able to use the proper font size on such a
small template.
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That depends on what you mean by "proper" font size.

If you've got specs that call for, say, 48 point type and you're using a PPT
size that's half the actual "to be printed" size, use 24 point type in PPT.
When the PPT slide size prints at double-size, so will the type.
 
phoca56 said:
When I use page setup to create a custom poster the maximum height is 56".
Is this truely the limit, forcing me to create and then stack two posters for
the conference?
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There is free (GPL) software for Win 2k, 2003 server, XP (and possibly
NT 4.0 also) that installs a virtual "poster printer" on your system.
You print to it like any printer, and it will capture the image of the
document pages (similar to a fax printer) and then pop up a "poster
utility" dialog that will allow you to enlarge the image from any page
of the document and print it to multiple pages.

You cut off the edges of some of the pages and put them together with
transparent tape (or some other method). The images from the separate
pages align nearly perfectly, the result is ALMOST professional
quality.

Please take a look:
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The "Directory" web site is http://www.geocities.com/poster_printer

The main web site, with screen shots to really show you what it can do,
is http://posterprinter.sourceforge.net/

The development web site (this is open source software) is
https://sourceforge.net/projects/posterprinter/

If you want to download it right away, the download page at
SourceForge is
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=172256
 
There is free (GPL) software for Win 2k, 2003 server, XP (and possibly
NT 4.0 also) that installs a virtual "poster printer" on your system.
You print to it like any printer, and it will capture the image of the
document pages (similar to a fax printer) and then pop up a "poster
utility" dialog that will allow you to enlarge the image from any page
of the document and print it to multiple pages.

You cut off the edges of some of the pages and put them together with
transparent tape (or some other method). The images from the separate
pages align nearly perfectly, the result is ALMOST professional
quality.

Please take a look:
--------------------------------
The "Directory" web site is http://www.geocities.com/poster_printer

The main web site, with screen shots to really show you what it can do,
is http://posterprinter.sourceforge.net/

The development web site (this is open source software) is
https://sourceforge.net/projects/posterprinter/

If you want to download it right away, the download page at
SourceForge is
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=172256
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I should also have mentioned, if you happen to have such a huge printer
that it
can actually print a poster page that large, this free software allows
you to easily
scale any page, proportionately. Most Windows fonts are capable of
being scaled
to tremendous sizes without losing quality (TrueType, OpenType). So
just
get your document to look nice at whatever scale you want to create it
at, and the
free software package will scale all the text, without any loss of
quality, to print
to whatever page size you want.

Just don't used bitmap fonts, such as the Windows "System" font, make
sure they
are all TrueType or OpenType or some other scalable font.
 
Thanks for your post ... that will certainly help a lot of people.

I've added your info and links here so other people can benefit:

Print posters or other large format output
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00537.htm
Just don't used bitmap fonts, such as the Windows "System" font, make
sure they
are all TrueType or OpenType or some other scalable font.
Click to expand...

Luckily, not a problem in PPT ... it doesn't allow you to select anything but
vector/scalable fonts.
 
Steve said:
Thanks for your post ... that will certainly help a lot of people.

I've added your info and links here so other people can benefit:

Print posters or other large format output
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00537.htm


Luckily, not a problem in PPT ... it doesn't allow you to select anything but
vector/scalable fonts.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Thanks Steve, I hope it is useful to people. If there are problems
with it please let me know (that is the point of releasing a beta). If
people look at the web sites and documentation places to report bugs
are given all over the place, but I'll give it here also: send email
to (e-mail address removed)
 
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