Poster Preparation

Type all materials (i.e. title, abstract, introduction, methods, etc.) in Microsoft Word in the order that you wish it to appear on the poster.If you have graphics, art work or photographs, please do not insert your graphics, art work or photographs into the word processing document.

If you are scanning your own art work please do so at 300dpi at 100% and save as a tiff with no lzw compression.

Photos may be submitted in slide, print or digital form.

Graphs may be submitted in digital or print form. We accept graphs created in Excel, CricketGraph, Sigma Plot and Corel Draw. Graphs in other programs can be exported as EPS, JPG, TIF, PICT, BMP and GIF formats.

Other art work may be sumitted as EPS, JPG, TIF, PICT, BMP and GIF formats.

You will receive an 11X17 proof of the poster.


Designing your own poster

If you would like to design and layout your own poster, please use Adobe PageMaker or Adobe Illustrator. Please do not use PowerPoint. It was designed to do slide presentations, not poster sessions.

For the best results on our printers please use CMYK colors.

Please place or insert scans and graphics into your application. Do not cut and paste them into your application.

Be sure to include the inserted files on the disk you bring if they have been linked by the application.




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This page was last modified on : 02/09/2006