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Ravish Agrawal
You built the poster. Now you need slides, or you have slides and need a poster. Instead of rebuilding your research in a new format, Gamma converts a research poster into a presentation, or a presentation into a poster, in minutes, keeping your content intact while reshaping it for the new medium. Upload the file, paste the text, or connect where your research lives, and let Gamma's AI agent handle the reshaping.
A poster and a slide deck work differently. A poster is a single scannable page meant to be read while you stand beside it; a deck is a sequence of slides paced for a talk. Gamma bridges that gap in both directions, reading your source, asking about your audience and format, and reshaping your research so it works whether you're presenting from a stage or standing at a poster board.
Copying one format straight into the other rarely works. A poster crammed onto one slide is unreadable; a deck printed as a poster is a wall of disconnected boxes. A good conversion:
Breaks a poster's sections into their own slides (poster to deck)
Consolidates a deck's flow into a scannable single layout (deck to poster)
Keeps figures and data sharp in the new format
Preserves your research logic from question to conclusion
The goal is to translate your work into a format built for the setting you're presenting in.
Upload your poster file or slide deck, paste the text, or connect the tools where your research lives, Notion, Google Docs, your reference manager. Gamma reads your source and recognizes its structure, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions, no rebuilding from scratch.
The agent confirms your target format and who you're presenting to, then reshapes your content to match: a poster becomes a paced sequence of slides, or a deck consolidates into a scannable poster layout. Your research logic carries over into the new medium.
Gamma applies the right design for the target. For slides, clear headlines and one idea per slide; for a poster, a balanced single-page hierarchy that reads from across the room. The layout decisions are handled for you.
Get your poster or deck in a form you can upload, a PDF, a slide file, or copied text, along with your key figures at high resolution. Clear sections help Gamma map the structure cleanly.
Head to gamma.app and start from the prompt box. Upload your poster or deck, connect your source, or paste the text, then ask for what you need, for example, "Turn this research poster into a 10-minute slide presentation," or "Turn these slides into a single conference poster."
A typical converted structure looks like:
Title and authors
Introduction and research question
Methods
Results with key figures
Discussion and conclusions
References and acknowledgments
For a deck, each item becomes one or more slides; for a poster, these become balanced sections on a single page. Reorder so your key results get the emphasis they deserve.
Gamma builds the converted format, slides or poster, in roughly a minute.
Insert your high-resolution charts, graphs, and images so they stay crisp in the new format. Gamma handles the layout, but when you want a figure in a precise spot, drop into freeform editing and position it yourself, or pick an element with AI editing and describe the change you want. Tighten text for the medium, slides want spoken prompts, a poster wants scannable sections.
For slides, present live from Gamma, share a web link, or export to PowerPoint, PDF, or Google Slides, slide-for-slide with formatting intact. For a poster, export to PDF at your required dimensions for large-format printing. Confirm the size with your venue before printing.
Gamma vs. PowerPoint
Speed: Rebuilding a poster as slides, or the reverse, by hand takes hours; Gamma converts in minutes
Design: PowerPoint depends on your layout skills; Gamma applies the right hierarchy for each format
Figures: Both let you insert high-resolution figures; Gamma handles the surrounding layout for you
The honest take: PowerPoint can build both posters and slides, and gives you precise control over every element. If you enjoy the layout work and want to rebuild by hand, it works well. Gamma converts between formats much faster, and you can export to PowerPoint, PDF, or Google Slides when you're done.
Gamma vs. Canva
Templates: Canva offers many poster and slide templates; Gamma starts from your actual research and reshapes it
Decisions: Canva asks you to make many design choices; Gamma's agent makes smart ones for you
The honest take: Canva is great if you enjoy customizing a template element by element. Gamma is faster when you want your existing research reshaped into the new format without rebuilding it from a blank template.
Don't just resize. A poster isn't one giant slide, and a deck isn't a poster cut into pieces; let the content reshape.
Keep figures high-resolution. Insert sharp originals so they hold up whether projected or printed.
Match detail to the medium. Slides want spoken prompts; a poster wants self-explanatory sections.
Check readability. Slides should read from the back of the room; posters from a few feet away.
Confirm dimensions before printing. Verify your venue's required poster size before you export to print.
Yes. Turn a poster into a slide deck, or a deck into a single poster, by telling the agent which format you want when you start.
Insert your own high-resolution figures, and Gamma formats the new layout around them so they stay crisp whether you project or print. Always use the original high-res files.
It depends on your venue, common sizes include 36x48 inches and A0. Export to PDF at the required dimensions and confirm with your print shop first.
Yes. Build one and ask the agent to produce the other, so your talk and your poster stay consistent from the same source material.
Your research shouldn't be trapped in one format. Whether you need slides for a talk or a poster for the hall, don't rebuild it from scratch. Give your poster or deck to Gamma, let the agent reshape it for the new medium, and walk into either setting with a version built for the room.
