How are Big Protest Signs Made?

9/17/2004 | agitate

[Agitate]

Can anyone point me to a reference or give directions on how to make big protest signs?

I saw a tutorial at protest warrior HQ on how to put the sign together, but now how to make the Acrobat file used to put on the sign.

How do you make an acrobat file that big, or is there another way?

[Agitate]

Thanks for any input.

[dinasour]

Uh, big printers, I guess?

[Servant of the 9]

I use a program called "Poster" that will enlarge any graphic and divide it into pieces for your printer and print them out. Then you trim the pieces and glue them in place on foamcore.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/daily/bldd010600.htm

You can download it for $16.00

Or you can put your work on a CD and take it to Kinkos and have them print it as big as you want.

So9

[Larry Lucido]

The Kinko's in Abilene will even fax it to CBS news for you.

[Agitate]

Thanks Very Much Servant of the 9!

[I got the rope]

BUMP...

Jim,

I need some help. Does anyone know how to do this in adobe?

I'm trying to Freep Edwards this afternoon and Kerry this Evening in Tampa.

[I got the rope]

BTTT

[Old Lady]

You can always go to Home Depot or some other chain hardware store, buy large poster or foam board, attach it to a stick and draw your own sign. We used to live in DC and made our own large signs this way during the 2000 election recount protest outside Al Gore's house on Massachusetts Avenue. Our signs could be seen very well at a distance. Good luck.