Christopher Smith wrote:
On Tue Mar 30, at TuesdayMar 30 9:49 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Last I checked, UMI PDFs of dissertations were graphics of scans of
the printed page, not produced from the text of the document. Even if
they *were* produced from the printed document, specifying dpi of
source graphics is not something any institution would be doing, any
more than they would be restricting Ph.D. candidates to using MS Word
to produce their dissertations.
My wife's Master's thesis, completed last year, REQUIRED her to submit a
copy on MS Word. The reasoning is that a searchable archive copy will be
created (I imagine in PDF) from her file. I think scans of printed pages
are for old documents that don't exist in electronic form, but they
still type in the abstract for the search engines.
She also had to submit three paper copies, with everything specified
from the typeface to the weight and finish of the paper. It was quite an
ordeal.
But you can create MSWord format documents from a variety of
sources: WordPerfect, OpenOffice and others.
So while the format may have been required, the tool to
create that format wasn't required.
--
David H. Bailey
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