How To Create An Adobe Acrobat PDF File

Windows 95,98,NT,2000,XP

For Systems With Acrobat Creation Tools

1. Authors should possibly use Microsoft Word as a word processor for compiling their papers.
2. Authors should carefully avoid using copyrighted fonts that can not be embedded.
3. Authors should "print" the completed papers to the Acrobat Distiller, rather than PDFWriter.
4. Authors should use Acrobat 4.0 or 5.0 or bust.
5. Authors should use the Print Optimized Distiller Option.
6. Authors should set the Graphic Option to 4000 dpi (the maximum and last of the pop-down list).
7. Authors should Embed all Fonts in the PDF file being created.
8. Another useful suggestion is that graphic displays generated by MATLAB may be saved as Postscript files ("print -dps2 file name" for BW, or "print -dpsc2 file name" for color displays). The resulting Postscript files may then be distilled using Distiller directly (no need to "print" using a Postscript driver!), and the resulting PDF graphics can then be paginated at the right place using the Document > Insert Pages command of Acrobat (4.0 or 5.0). The program is available for Unix, Windows, DOS and the MAC.)

For Systems Without Acrobat Creation Tools

1. Print your document to a file using a Postscript printer driver. (you may have to install a postscript printer driver to your system to do this, this installation does not change your default printer and you do not have to have a post script printer to do this installation).
2. Use the tool "ps2pdf" to convert the printed file to pdf format The printed file usually comes with extension ".prn". You may need to rename the file to have the extension ".ps" instead before doing the conversion. The "ps2pdf" tool is part of the Ghostscript package (which is free for ordinary use) at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/doc/Readme.htm. The program is available for Unix, Windows, DOS and the MAC.)