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The current version of NorthStar for UKIRT does not parse LaTeX during proposal preparation, and it can therefore be slightly difficult sometimes to know if the lengths of the science and technical cases fall within the length requirements. The simplest way to avoid this issue, and to maintain maximum control over your page layouts, is to generate your science and technical cases as single-page PDF files first and then just upload them to the NorthStar submission system. PDF Generation Linux/Unix Once the document is saved as a PostScript file (usually generated by either the "Print to File"-type options available under most word processors, or dvips filename > filename.ps if using LaTeX), then the command ps2pdf filename should produce a suitable PDF file. Mac OS X This should be trivial, as Mac OS X natively supports PDFs, and includes a "Print to PDF" option at the OS level for all applications. LaTeX document preparation environments on Macs, such as TeXShop, automatically generate a PDF file for on-screen viewing purposes. Whenever possible, just check that the resultant PDF looks correct in Adobe Acrobat Reader, as it is occasionally possible to generate slightly non-standard PDFs using the native Mac OS X implementation. Windows Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 also have native PDF support, as does OpenOffice.org. Earlier versions of MS Windows and MS Office usually require a third-party software solution. A quick web search for "Windows PDF generation" should provide links to a number of possible options, commercial and free (in both senses). LaTeX If you are using LaTeX to prepare your science and technical cases, then you may wish to try using the following as a template. Although testing on the following text has been somewhat limited, and it is therefore provided as is without support by either UKIRT or NorthStar, it has been previously used to successfully prepare submittable UKIRT Service proposals. % Example LaTeX commands to generate a NorthStar justification ps file \documentclass[legal, 11pt]{article} \oddsidemargin=-0.54cm \evensidemargin=-0.54cm \topmargin=-1.2cm \textwidth=17cm \textheight=25cm \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} % TEXT OF JUSTIFICATION HERE \end{document} Note that the above \documentclass parameters have been slightly modified from the example provided by the NorthStar team themselves, in order to ensure 11-point text and the use of the U.S. Legal paper size. Once your document is correctly prepared, on most *nix machines, the following should produce a usable PDF file from the LaTeX file foo.tex : latex foo.tex dvips foo > foo.ps ps2pdf foo.ps This should produce a file called foo.pdf which may be uploaded to NorthStar. You should ensure that the resultant file does not exceed a single page, or it will be rejected by the submission system. Figures Including a Figures page in your proposal should be handled the same way as for the Science and Technical Cases. In other words, just create the Figures page as a PDF with the layout that you want, and then upload it the same way. Go back to main NorthStar submission notes (MGR, 20071026) |