From Paper to Conference Poster in Four Stages

A conference poster is a summary of a paper with a layout problem attached. The content is already written; the work is deciding what fits in a 48 by 36 inch space and making it readable from six feet away. Paper2Poster does that part.

Give it the paper

Open Paper 2 Poster from the launcher, or ask in chat: "Turn this arXiv paper into a conference poster", "make an academic poster from my attached PDF manuscript", "create a research poster for my NeurIPS submission". A PDF or an arXiv link is enough.

Watch the four stages

A generating tile on the board shows the pipeline as it runs:

1. Parsing. The paper is read: sections, figures, tables, captions.
2. Planning. An outline is chosen: what goes in, what is cut, how the columns flow.
3. Painting. Each section is laid out and styled.
4. Rendering. The poster is produced as an editable PowerPoint file and a preview image.

The default size is 48 by 36 inches. The result is a real .pptx, so the last five percent can be done in PowerPoint or Keynote if you prefer.

Read the plan, not just the poster

Each poster tile opens with Fit and Actual zoom, downloads for the PPTX and the image, and the Planner outline rail. The rail shows the structure the pipeline chose: which sections made the cut and in what order. If the outline is wrong, the poster will be wrong, so start there.

Revise with pins

Your advisor will have notes. Pin them on the poster: click where the change goes, write the note ("make the methods section larger", "move results to the right column"). Send, and the pins go to the chat as one edit request. The pipeline revises the poster and a new tile appears.

What it is not for

Marketing posters, event flyers and graphics are Design Studio work. To understand or summarise a paper rather than present it, ask in chat, or build a notebook in Study.

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