MISCELLANEOUS INFO ABOUT MAKING THESIS FILES

12 Dec 2004 (Michael Saunders)
   Stanford now allows 10pt(!!!) as well as twoside and reasonable
   linespacing.  Download the latest suthesis-2e.sty and proceed
   as follows:

\documentclass[10pt,twoside]{report}
\usepackage{suthesis-2e}
\onehalfspacing
   ...

Note that \onehalfspacing gives the right \setstretch{...}
for all of 10pt, 11pt, and 12pt.  No need for your own \setstretch.



INFO ABOUT PDF FILES

15 Mar 2011 (Michael Saunders)
   pdflatex is the way to go nowadays.
   Figures can include pdf, png, or jpg files.


   The notes below are from an earlier age.

Sometimes pdf files are not very readable on-line
(and are much bigger than necessary) because the
ps file they were made from (by dvips?) contains
embedded pk fonts that are bitmapped.

Note: The pdf files may look ok when printed.
See 03 Sep 2002 below.


25 Aug 2002 (Michael Friedlander)
   ps and pdf on Unix and Linux

   To make the PDF version of my thesis, I first tried pdflatex.
   The fonts came out right, but it didn't render
   the figures properly (they use PS specials).
   It seems the most reliable method is

   dvips -Ppdf thesis.dvi -o thesis.ps
   ps2pdf      thesis.ps     thesis.pdf

   (-Ppdf is the key option.  It uses config.ps and config.pdf to
   set the font paths.)


28 Aug 2002 (Kien-Ming Ng)
   ps and pdf with PC TeX

   PC TeX Version ?? seems to do a good job of both.


03 Sep 2002 (Michael Friedlander)
   CTAN Perl script to fix up PS files

   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/pkfix/

   This is an elaborate "last ditch" effort to produce
   a readable pdf file from a ps file.  It replaces
   the pk fonts by type 1 fonts (whatever this means).
   Michael found it almost worked on mjgthesis.ps
   but failed halfway through.

   The best bet is to go back to the dvi and eps files
   and use  dvips -Ppdf  as above.


03 Sep 2002 (Michael Saunders)
   Printing pdf files

   acroread on Linux was able to print good copy
   from a file that looked poor in the previewer.
   But xpdf could not display the file, or print it.