Submitting Posters for Printing

The deadline for printing submissions is Tuesday April 23 at 8 am

Posters for the Festival of Science are printed by the Libraries....

General Instructions:

To print all the posters in a timely manner, posters for FOS will be printed on recycled paper. This is the default standard paper. There will be no reprints unless approved by your faculty member
Posters should be created at 48" x 36".
All posters should be saved in PDF format. (including those created in Powerpoint, InDesign, Illustrator, etc.)
Font sizes should be 100pt for big titles, 50pt for smaller headings, and 25pt for text.
Use the Insert menu in PowerPoint, rather than cutting and pasting, for inserting pictures.
Save your completed poster file in the folder T:\Atlas\Printjobs\FoSCI using the SaveAs command
Files in T:\Atlas\Printjobs\FoSCI can be viewed only by the individual who owns the file and by the GIS staff.

Special Instruction for Mac Users:

The conversion from Mac to Windows is not always smooth, so please follow these steps ensure a smoother process:

Posters created on a Mac should have the word "Mac" in the title.
Students should open their completed Mac posters on a PC to ensure that fonts are correct and that text, graphs, and images are displaying in the appropriate places.
Resave the poster from a PC to the folder mentioned above: T:\Atlas\Printjobs\FoSCI.

Students should enter FoSCI for the budget code when they fill out the poster printing form