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) 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 Common standard Adobe’s reader exists for almost all platforms and is freely available Adobe’s reader exists for almost all platforms and is freely available Improve the scholarly publication process Improve the scholarly publication process Reduced time between initial submission and final publication Reduced time between initial submission and final publication UMI ProQuest system powered by bepress.com UMI ProQuest system powered by bepress.com

Online Submission for Theses and Dissertations Adobe PDF format Adobe PDF format No compression No compression No password protection No password protection All fonts must be embedded All fonts must be embedded UMI can make no changes to the document UMI can make no changes to the document Burden of author for look and print Burden of author for look and print

Online Submission for Theses and Dissertations Acceptable file formats Images Images GIF, JPEG, PDF, TIFF, Video, Apple Quick Time, Microsoft Audio Video Interleaved, MPEG GIF, JPEG, PDF, TIFF, Video, Apple Quick Time, Microsoft Audio Video Interleaved, MPEG Audio Audio AIF, CD-DA, CD-ROM/XA, MIDI, MPEG-2,SND, WAV AIF, CD-DA, CD-ROM/XA, MIDI, MPEG-2,SND, WAV

A Guide to PDF for Scholars Specifically for bepress.com Specifically for bepress.com Proper preparation of electronic documents Proper preparation of electronic documents Avoid unusual fonts Avoid unusual fonts Stick with Type 1 fonts Stick with Type 1 fonts Avoid bitmap images Avoid bitmap images Avoid using native drawing tools Avoid using native drawing tools EPS – minimum 300 dpi EPS – minimum 300 dpi

A Guide to PDF for Scholars Links Links allowed within the document or to other bepress.com references allowed within the document or to other bepress.com references allowed external or internal for multi-media files allowed external or internal for multi-media files Javascript Javascript allowed but bepress.com cannot be responsible for fitness, implied or otherwise, of any such programs allowed but bepress.com cannot be responsible for fitness, implied or otherwise, of any such programs Turnoff or hide certain features Turnoff or hide certain features under no circumstances allowed under no circumstances allowed System calls to other applications System calls to other applications absolutely prohibited absolutely prohibited

UDThesis Layouts Word – styles Word – styles LaTeX – documentclass LaTeX – documentclass TeX – macros TeX – macros Postscript print Postscript print

What about PDF? Indirectly Indirectly Distill Postscript to PDF Distill Postscript to PDF TeX/LaTeX (dvips) TeX/LaTeX (dvips) Word (Generic Adobe PS print driver) Word (Generic Adobe PS print driver) dvipdfm dvipdfm Directly Directly pdfLaTeX/TeX pdfLaTeX/TeX Word print directly to distiller Word print directly to distiller

UD Distiller? IT Computing sites have Adobe Acrobat distiller installed on selected machines IT Computing sites have Adobe Acrobat distiller installed on selected machines Acrobat Distiller Server Acrobat Distiller Server Upgrade to version Upgrade to version Web interface for submitting Postscript file and returning PDF Web interface for submitting Postscript file and returning PDF Similar to Adobe service, but free for UD Similar to Adobe service, but free for UD

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