- All presentations should be made in a version of PowerPoint. If this
poses a problem for you, you should contact the help desk at slides@dac.com and they
will provide you with an alternative solution.
- Use one of the provided templates or one of your own making. Be
sure to use a "landscape" layout.
- Use the width to height aspect ratio of most graphics
displays is 4:3 You will get this format by selecting the "File",
"Page Setup", "on-screen-show".
- Your company name and/or logo are only allowed to
appear on the title page.
Also minimize the use of product trademarks. Occasionally, a speaker
believes that a presentation may be a place to obtain some free advertising
for a product or an organization. This is not allowed at DAC, since
this is a technical conference.
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Do not use recurring text in headers
and/or footers.
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Do not use any sound effects.
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Use large font sizes. 20 point
and higher for regular text and 18 points for descriptive text (text
with arrows, etc.)
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Use only lines with a width of at least 2pts. (In more
complicated graphs, 1.5 pts. is acceptable.)
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When using a template of your own, remember that a dark
background with lighter content is favorable for projection in large
rooms. This is so because a light background over shines thinner lines
and characters. Lately the quality of projectors have improved enormously
which allows good results with a white background and darker content.
Even though that combination is now readable and clear it tends to
be hard on the eye. Non-serif fonts (e.g., Helvetica, Arial) have
proven to project significantly better than the serif ones (e.g. Times
Roman). We urge you to please try and avoid those.
Under certain circumstances we may have to deviate from these general
suggestions, as is the case for those presentations that are to be
video'd and will be published on the web. We will communicate those
specific requirements to the respective presenters directly.
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Make sure to choose a transition mode between each slide,
but choose one which does not distract too much (e.g. dissolve, wipe
right). Use only one type of transition throughout your presentation.
Only consider using a different transition if you are moving onto
a completely different subject.
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Use clip-art only if it helps to state the point more
effectively.
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Use contrasting brightness levels, e.g., light-on-dark
or dark-on-light, in all of your text and diagrams.
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Stay away from using red text or lines on a dark blue
background. This combination is very difficult to read as the contrasting
brightness level is almost completely equal. For this reason it is
also totally undistinguishable for the color blind
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Use the MS equation editor or MathType
to make your formulas.
