: What software can be used to create scientific posters? For "political" reasons I used MS PowerPoint to create a scientific poster. Scientific means mainly having formulas, plots(they could be

@Pierce403

I find InDesign combined with Photoshop/Illustrator is the best if you have a lot of text you need to display.

I use Illustrator more for infographic/illustrated posters where the message is more visual with minimal text.

Never use Powerpoint if you plan on mass printing a posters. Printers hate it and the PDF will take forever to transfer to the actual printer/s due to poor compression.

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@Deb5748823

adobe photoshop would be the best choice if you wish to have a one stop solution. other softwares like illustrator etc can do the same as photoshop but more limited when it comes to filters and effects.

this is a solution only if you wish to have only one software, otherwise, it would be photoshop to tweak images, then illustrator to layout the artwork. in design is more for publications or books.

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@YK2262411

I'd personally always use InDesign for posters, but it all depends on the type of output you're after. If you're self-printing, Photoshop might be easier to deal with, but you wouldn't be able to make on-the-fly corrections; you'd need to take screen grabs and add the images in as layers.

With InDesign, you can either work with existing fonts that are intended for scientific use (I found this on another question) or use a third-party plug-in that deals explicitly with equations; this one was recommended to me via the Adobe forums a while back.

For graphs, I'd tend to just live with importing these as images taken from excel or something similar, although there may be a way of importing these directly Into inDesign - I've never tried it.

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