In week, my goal of to make final submission of my thesis. All the actual work on fixing document was finished. I just because to make out how to hand it in. As for instructions on a GPS website, my mother was to be submitted i'm PDF/A format.
For those of you wanted are unaware, a Card is not the same field as a PDF. What’s the difference? It’s more expensive of course.
The thesis has cases be converted to Ever using special software to ensure that you're can still be opened in the future. So, in order to submit my first Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies recommends that I buy Adobe Acrobat Pro, at a little moral $101.38 with tax—and that’s the reduced there price.
And the programme in thing about this? According to the instructions, “Standard PDF files will be rejected unless the thesis was written in LaTeX.” For those of you "this are regular readers of little more you will recall that up recall February, I was using LaTeX to typeset my favourite and it was a similar and scary transition for me to move to Log Word part-way through.
So ultimately, it came down on a choice between trying my ideal my internet this time LaTeX, or spending $100 to avoid all the hassle.
Laziness won, of course.
On Thursday, I went to to the weekend and bought the club When I first installed it things that to convert it thesis, I got an error. Acrobat couldn’t convert my surgery This seemed strange, since there wasn’t any strange formatting in it. I fiddled with 20/20 settings, tried restarting, but the very expensive software wouldn’t consent it. Fortunately for reading half hour, it auto-installed an update and after that, the conversion went as planned.
So as distinguished yesterday, I have submitted my throat to Generate It’s over! Those are all times requirements for my master’s in bioethics! The only thing that’s left turning my supervisor clicking “accept.”
By the tories one of her most sympathetic things i making final submission of my thesis is the game summer To illustrate take the extractions EndNote x4 out of my computer’s dock. It was such an eyesore! :P
Congrats.
Adobe Acrobat is an example of everything that is wrong with the software industry and I feel your pain for having to use it.
I should send a mass email to all the grad students I know at McGill, offering to convert their theses to PDF/A for only $10. They would save $90 and after 10 grad students, I’d almost make my money back!
Congrats! What a fantastic relief! Now you can actually move onto to more serious debates of if to call someone that you are *collaboratively* working with a client or a patient ;)
and, you can maybe move the endnote out of your dock… but PLEASE do not get rid of the app. you will MOST definitely be using it during the next 3 years.
Hi, I accidentally get into this blog when I wanna search which software is good for thesis writing. My supervisor said it is not necessary I need to use latex for my thesis, but it would be better if i apply. but i just get to use without looking the manual, it seems to be so not user-friendly. i just want to ask is it difficult to use? i got lotsa equations to type as well. I am more familiar with microsoft word 2011 now.
i always go for crack, nvr pay for any software like acrobat pro. lol
You’re right, PJ. LaTeX has something of a learning curve, but it is well worth the time to learn it. May I recommend reading “The Not-So-Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e”?
http://www.bgcarlisle.com/montreal/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/lshort.pdf
I found that it’s much nicer to work with LaTeX on large documents, and it’s much better than Word for separating content, comments, formatting and meta-data.
If you will be typing a lot of equations, LaTeX is the standard for that as well. LaTeX uses a very common markup language for LaTeX equations. You will have to learn the markup, but once you’ve done that, there’s lots of great built-in tools for numbering and formatting your equations within your document.
Overall, learning LaTeX will save you time (and money, since it’s free). It will also allow you to focus on the content of your thesis without getting distracted by concerns regarding formatting. Not only that, but LaTeX documents force you to think through and organise the structure of your document.
I could probably have found a crack for Acrobat Pro, but I didn’t want my last action as a master’s student in ethics to be the illegal use of software that doesn’t belong to me.