On 30 Mar 2010 at 21:57, 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.
To whom? UMI or the university? My bet is that's a local requirement (and reprehensible). > 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. There are quite recent dissertations that UMI delivers as PDFs of scans that could have been delivered as electronic text instead. > 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 still no requirements on dpi for embedded graphics. Certainly we're getting closer to having your tools specified, but still not something as specific as resolution of embedded content. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
