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PaperLess Dissertations ETD. University of Delaware Anita Z. Schwartz. UD PrintLess Program. Spring 2002 Educate users to reduce printing Evaluate paper use Evaluate print-management software. UD PrintLess Program. Fall 2002 Install VendPrint (print release stations)
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PaperLess DissertationsETD University of Delaware Anita Z. Schwartz
UD PrintLess Program Spring 2002 • Educate users to reduce printing • Evaluate paper use • Evaluate print-management software
UD PrintLess Program Fall 2002 • Install VendPrint (print release stations) • Educate users about releasing print jobs • Met with student and administration to define goals of program
UD PrintLess Program Spring 2003 • Installed ID card readers • Educate users about releasing print jobs with card readers • Explained no fee yet • Scheduled print fee programs for Fall 2003
UD PrintLess Program Fall 2003 • Free printing 100 pages per student • Every 6 month period • Fees charged to UD FLEX account • .05 simplex.04 duplex
PDF (Portable Document Format)and bepress.com • Common standard • Adobe’s reader exists for almost all platforms and is freely available • Improve the scholarly publication process • Reduced time between initial submission and final publication • UMI ProQuest system powered by bepress.com
Online Submission forTheses and Dissertations • Adobe PDF format • No compression • No password protection • All fonts must be embedded • UMI can make no changes to the document • Burden of author for look and print
Online Submission forTheses and Dissertations Acceptable file formats • Images • GIF, JPEG, PDF, TIFF, Video, Apple Quick Time, Microsoft Audio Video Interleaved, MPEG • Audio • AIF, CD-DA, CD-ROM/XA, MIDI, MPEG-2,SND, WAV
A Guide to PDF for Scholars • Specifically for bepress.com • Proper preparation of electronic documents • Avoid unusual fonts • Stick with Type 1 fonts • Avoid bitmap images • Avoid using native drawing tools • EPS – minimum 300 dpi
A Guide to PDF for Scholars • Links • allowed within the document or to other bepress.com references • allowed external or internal for multi-media files • Javascript • allowed but bepress.com cannot be responsible for fitness, implied or otherwise, of any such programs • Turnoff or hide certain features • under no circumstances allowed • System calls to other applications • absolutely prohibited
UDThesis Layouts • Word – styles • LaTeX – documentclass • TeX – macros • Postscript print
What about PDF? • Indirectly • Distill Postscript to PDF • TeX/LaTeX (dvips) • Word (Generic Adobe PS print driver) • dvipdfm • Directly • pdfLaTeX/TeX • Word print directly to distiller
UD Distiller? • IT Computing sites have Adobe Acrobat distiller installed on selected machines • Acrobat Distiller Server 5.0.5 • Upgrade to version 6.0http://www.adobe.com/products/acrdis/main.html • Web interface for submitting Postscript file and returning PDF • Similar to Adobe service, but free for UD
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