Designing Presentation & Research Posters with Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful graphic design tool, and an excellent choice for poster making, but there are other options out there!

Adobe InDesign

Omnigraffle (Mac only)

Adobe Photoshop

Corel Draw (Windows only)

Inkscape (free)

Xara Xtreme (Linux, free)

**please note that to print a poster you will want your file as a .pdf, .eps, .ai, .jpg other file types may work, please contact us with questions.

To set up an Illustrator document as a poster:

1. Open Adobe Illustrator

2. Create a new "Print Document"

3. Set the dimensions of your document as desired (48"W x 36"H is a common size, but check with the venue at which you are presenting)
4. Open the "Advanced Settings", and set the color mode to CMYK
5. Do not worry about any of the other setting in this window, they are what you want!
6. Click "OK"