Creating your own brochures/display/signs/posters (Vector Images?)

[Steve21]

Good Evening All,

 

Couldn't really think of a better forum to stick this in than How To, but just wondering what peoples thoughts are on the best/easiest way to create physical displays/signage within a school that's also easy for people to edit on their own.

 

Obviously a nice pre-designed background/layout for the poster based upon a department or school design etc, making it vector based so it can easily be scaled for any size display etc, but as soon as I think about giving an end user a vector image to work with the idea falls apart in my mind. Even the basics of adding text/pictures to it I feel will get confusing when an end user has to start using photoshop etc (insert other software packages)

 

Would be amazing if you could just like setup a Word/Publisher..ew… file that has a vector based background, but a user could easily add text/images to without requiring manual changes to any vector work etc

 

Anyone got any hints or tricks they've used before? Or ideas as to whether I'm barking up the wrong tree...

 

Thanks,

Steve

[TTG_Alice]

You could try Canva - free online design software > https://www.canva.com/

 

Or you could create a template on Word/Powerpoint/Publisher. Add the image formatted as JPEG/PNG to the background, lock it if possible depending on the software. Then add the text box at the front for others to edit the text as they need to. Hope that makes sense?

[FishCustard]

What is the end-product here - a template for users to fill in to keep signage consistent (great idea if so!)

 

Have you tried importing a SVG image into Publisher and checking if it retains its scalability?

[Steve21]

Thank you both,

 

Canva looks good but again, getting end users to do the updates would be a pain I think. Hopefully once setup it was a kind of leave it to them to sort idea

 

Yep, the end goal being a template for users to be able to create/update things yep, but not just digital signage, things like classroom posters/displays/leaflets but formatted in the "proper school way" (One file/setup that works for all was the ideal)

 

Originally I had thought about just premaking an Office template with jpeg/png etc for the standard sizes, but then instantly someone asked about a different size poster etc and it falls apart. Thus the vector/scaling thoughts.

 

Haven't tried putting any SVG/ESPs etc into Office yet tbh, was wondering about how others did similar before testing the approach

 

Thanks,

Steve

[FishCustard]

You could also create different templates at the various sizes people want, as long as it's not too many (e.g. A3, A4, A5?).

[TTG_Alice]

I use to create template posters in PowerPoint for other managers to edit. That was the best tool I could work with where others could easily change. I would add text boxes with sample text and they could edit. Depending what your chosen school fonts are - there will always be issues with some people using the different fonts (comic sans ) Save the powerpoint template in the largest format (A3) and they could change to either A4 via the printer settings for size. Hope that helps