OSU Dissertation Template

The OSU dissertation template is available on the unix machines by using
\documentclass{osudissert96}
as the first line of the latex document and compiling as usual

LaTeX and PDF

Smaller Postscript and PDF files

PostScript and PDF files are often large when created from LaTeX files, and this makes for slow download times on the net. You can reduce their size considerably by using native PostScript fonts.

Just add the following line to your LaTeX file, after the \documentclass or \documentstyle line:

\usepackage{times}

This will put your document into the Times-Roman font. You can use dvips to create a PostScript file, and then you can run ps2pdf on it to create a PDF file.

Note, if you are using symbols in the file do:

\usepackage{mathptmx}

This will create a file that uses screen fonts, so it will look good as a ps/pdf file on the screen.

PDFLaTeX and Acrobat

There is the pdflatex command which produces better PDFs than ps2pdf. Or you can create a PS file and then use Acrobat Distiller to create the PDF, which may produce the best PDF.

Better PDF files from Postscript

To get better PDF files, use the PDF driver in dvips. This will produce Postscript that converts better to PDF.

dvips -Ppdf -G0 myfile.dvi -o myfile.ps
ps2pdf -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true myfile.ps
or perhaps:
dvips -Ppdf -G0 -o file.ps file
ps2pdf -dPDFsettings=/prepress file.ps

Note if you include PS files in your document (graphs, etc.) they will not come out as PDF. First convert those to PDF and change the references in the documnet.