[PRL] advice on posters

Jed Davis jld at ccs.neu.edu
Wed May 25 17:51:14 EDT 2011


On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:34:06AM -0700, Dimitris Vardoulakis wrote:
> I'm making a poster for PLDI's student-research competition. I've never made
> a poster before, so I have a few questions.
> 
> a) What's your preferred software for creating posters? (Ideally, latex
> based and working in ubuntu)

I've used beamerposter, which as the name suggests is an extension of
the LaTeX beamer package.  It's what I'd use if I had to do another one.

> b) Could you send me some posters that you've created, to get an idea of
> what you choose to include/exclude from a poster?
> c) Any general tips/advice on creating posters?

I'm not sure I should hold up the poster I made as an example.  It wound
up as basically an enormous wall of text (organized in a meaningful
hierarchy and relatively readable, but still a wall of text), with one
forlorn and unexciting block diagram looking like it was thrown in as
an afterthought (which, in fact, it was).  This is because there was
some confusion about the deadline and I had to do the entire thing from
scratch in one afternoon+evening.  So, maybe I'll let someone else take
these questions.

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