LaTeX/TeX Users

You may submit your paper in Adobe PDF format (easily derived from LaTeX/TeX) as an alternative to submitting in Microsoft Word format. However, your paper is likely to look VERY BAD when viewed from the CD-ROM proceedings, UNLESS YOU FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW!

Many TeX users use a program called DVIPS to produce Postscript files from TeX DVI files. If you are using Type3 fonts with TeX, DVIPS will output a Postscript file which is device-dependent...meaning that it looks different when viewed at various resolutions. This means that everyone who reads your paper (or prints your paper) from the CD-ROM proceedings is likely to see something different. This can vary from looking pretty good (when viewed/printed at the resolution at which you produced it) to looking extremely bad (when viewed/printed at a resolution significantly different from that which you used to produce it).

Also, the "full text searching" capability available on the CD-ROM WILL NOT WORK if you use Type3 fonts. This means that if a user attempts to find your paper using a keyword search, there will be no results shown for your paper. The tool which analyzes and indexes papers for full text searching cannot handle bitmapped (Type3) fonts. It only works with vectorized (Type1) fonts. This is because bitmapped fonts are treated as a "picture," while vectorized fonts are treated as an "object" which is recognizable by the indexing tool.

In order to produce a paper which people are able to search and read, you should ensure that you use Type1 fonts with TeX. The BaKoMa Type1 font set can be downloaded for free. For instructions on using/obtaining Type1 fonts, and for a more complete treatment of this problem, see http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/17d1e.htm or go to http://www.adobe.com and do a full site search for "bakoma".

Explicit Instructions for Creating PDF Document from LaTeX:

1. Insert "\usepackage{times}" at the beginning of the LaTex file.
2. Write text as always and create a .dvi file.
3. "dvips -o myfile.ps myfile.dvi" to create postscript.
4. "ps2pdf myfile.ps myfile.pdf" to create pdf.

Ghostscript provides this utility called "ps2pdf". You can go to the ghostscript home page at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ for additional information. They provide source to build from and for LINUX users there are RPM's available. (Special Thanks to Ron Sass for LaTeX/Ghostscript help).