Note that text, once imported, is included within the poster document while images remain as separate media elements. Scribus can open plain text files, Open Office files (.odt), and html files.

Your images must be reasonably high resolution (200dpi) if you expect them to look good when printed. You can use almost any format for images. Save images and the large blocks of text into separate files. Creating a poster using a Desktop Publishing application requires a different workflow than Powerpoint.įirst, create a directory that will contain all of the media elements that you want to use. Hintsĭon't just start up Scribus and start clicking around! You should begin your poster by assembling everything you're planning to use to create the poster. There are many guides to constructing good posters including UMaine Library Guide, Better Posters blog, and Norris Medical Library. You might also want to look at this guide with general hints for designing and presenting a scientific poster in biology. In particular, be sure to read this page if you aren't familiar with the concept of using a page-layout application. For many questions, you may find general documentation more useful than this guide. Note that Scribus is already well-documented (and there are several tutorials available on the web). Scribus is free and is available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux. This document offers hints on how to create a scientific poster with Scribus, an open-source page-layout application.

Scribus program