Generating IEEE Xplore compatible PDFs

Articles submitted to IEEE conferences will have to meet IEEE Xplore PDF requirements.  Most conference websites give free access to the PDF eXpress tool that can generate compatible PDFs from several source formats and validate PDF submissions as well.  However,  if you want to save time and generate such PDFs on Linux, here are the commands to use:


rm -f *.blg *.aux *.log *.aux
latex paper.tex
rm -f paper.bbl
bibtex paper
latex paper.tex
latex paper.tex
dvips -Ppdf -tletter -G0 -D 600 -o paper.ps paper.dvi
ps2pdf14 -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dUseFlateCompression=true -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress paper.ps

NOTE:  The template that your worked with, might not be compatible by itself. Avoiding  hyperref   package,  fixed annotation related issues that PDF eXpress was complaining about.

Use these commands to generate high quality PDF documents for publishing. Change the paper type in ‘dvips’ command to suit your specs.

Organizing Information – wiki style

The principal attraction of wiki style web pages is that you can update while you browse, with out having to login into the server and update the code/HTML. I started hunting for one such wiki software to replace my home page. My criteria include that such a software should be easy to install, not require root or database access, written in PHP and is GPLed. I just found one : PmWiki from the comparisons page on Wikipedia. I did try couple of others before zeroing on pmwiki. For instance, installing twiki was very annoying. Though, pmwiki didn’t fare well on the Google trends, I was able to install it within 10 minutes in my /public_html/.. Such a pleasant experience, it was.

Their philosophy about doing things is very impressive. I recommend the following cool skins : NotSoSimple, NewsPaper, Rounded.