On 31 Mar 2010 at 7:41, dhbailey wrote: > But you can create MSWord format documents from a variety of > sources: WordPerfect, OpenOffice and others.
...all of which are variable in their ability to create Word-format documents that reliably reproduce the original format. > So while the format may have been required, the tool to > create that format wasn't required. Dissertations are potentially one of the most complicated document structures "normal" people are ever likely to produce (insert joke about normal people and Ph.D. candidates here), and I'd want to check very carefully that my document created in WP or OpenOffice and saved in Word format actually managed to not lose important aspects of the original formatting. I mean something as simple as pagination (*very* important in a dissertation, which is likely to have cross references) can be thrown off by just the slightest difference in the page formatting algorithm. The only electronic format that makes any sense to me is PDF, since it's portable and reliable. I can't fathom why any institution would require a proprietary format. I tried to check up on NYU, but they use an outside service for electronic submission, so it's impossible to figure out what document format(s) they are requiring: http://gsas.nyu.edu/page/grad.life.dissertation In regard to graphics, NYU doesn't seem to have any guidelines for dpi/format: http://gsas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/4474/dissertationchecklist.pdf This is what I would have expected. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
