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Including Transparencies Posters and Video in Electronic Publications JACoW Team Meeting Geneva, February 2002 Experience Chamonix Performance Workshops have published transparencies for several years. Input has been in the form of
Geneva, February 2002
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Chamonix Performance Workshops have published
Input has been in the form of PowerPoint, LaTeX and Word
Hand prepared slides were not published. Output is in the form of PDF files. PAC01 published slides on their CD and JACoW
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The speed of display is acceptable. File size varies a lot. At Chamonix, the average talk was 20 minutes long
The average PDF file size was 1Mbyte
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The input files are converted to PDF either using PDF Maker
Paper size and margins are not an issue – target on screen
Chamonix workshop has a CERN based set of contributors
Potential problems arise from the use of fonts which are not
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One has to verify the fonts at the conference - this
It has the advantage of producing acceptable input files and the data
It takes around 15 minutes per talk to produce PDF files Need to put a flag in the database to indicate availability of
Total increase in disk space is non-negligible in terms of the
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A wider variety of software is used in the preparation of
Poster files will, in general, be large – 10 to 50 Mbytes. Acrobat is very good at compressing some images and in a
A poster is generally not suitable for viewing on the screen.
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PAC’01 uses a dedicated server for the video, accessed from
This server requires support from outside the JACoW
PAC’01 are better placed to comment …
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Posters
too many of them and too much work to include them.
Electronic slide presentations
if the resources can be found at the conference (one student full-
Only publish powerpoint ?
It would be possible to deal with other things like LaTeX or PostScript
but there could be problems with fonts
less than one week additional post conference work probably worth the effort to add conference reference but no
the CD will only contain one conference
Video ?