SCN '99: Info for electronic sumbission

Most of the documentation in this page has been recycled from http://www.iacr.org/~iacr/conferences/c99/submit.html

Introduction
Formatting your paper
Microsoft Word Users ?
On-line form for Electronic Submission
- Browser Requirement (IMPORTANT: Read this before using the on-line form)
- On-Line Form
E-mail Submission

Introduction

All electronic submissions must be sent via electronic mail (no ftp); they must be in printable PostScript form and arrive by June 1, 1999. This is the same as the hardcopy deadline. You will receive an email within two working days from your submission.

Any question should be sent to scn99@dia.unisa.it.

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Formatting the Paper

To submit your paper electronically, you must convert your paper into PostScript, conforming to the Document Structuring Conventions (DSC) using US Letter size (8.5 by 11 inches). Pages should appear in ascending order. You should use standard postscript fonts (not every printer has, for example, Transylvania-Gothic-Bold).

A4 format is not allowed!

It does not suffice that your text fit on the appropriate area: If your PostScript file specifies A4 format (you can usually check this yourself by looking at the header of the file) it will ruin the day of most US printers. It is also important that your file conform to the document structuring conventions, or your paper may not be processed correctly.

The appropriate command for dvips users is

dvips -t letter

If you use dvips to generate the postscript file there should not be problem for printing.
If you use another mechanism for generating PostScript, please contact your technical support people.

Does my postscript file conform to the document structuring conventions?

Our experience is that most, but not all postscript files produced today conform to the document structuring conventions (DSC). DSC files have header information specifying such information as the number of pages, the ordering of the pages and the paper size (and many other optional comments as well). Here is an example of the beginning of such a header:

%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%%Creator: dvipsk 5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software
%%Title: coloring.dvi
%%Pages: 15
%%PageOrder: Ascend
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
%%DocumentPaperSizes: Letter
%%EndComments
%DVIPSCommandLine: /usr/local/bin/dvips coloring.dvi -o coloring.ps -t
%+ letter
...
Pages begin with a line of the form

%%Page:...

If your paper looks like this, you are probably in good shape. To be sure, contact your systems support person. A fuller description of these conventions is given in the PostScript Language Reference Manual (second edition), Appendix G.

If your postscript file is not DSC compliant, do NOT attempt to manually make it compliant by inserting lines from the example! Ask your systems support person for help. Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to help you ourselves.

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So you want to use Microsoft Word?

First, many Windows-based programs do not seem to know how to output PostScript themselves, but allow you to do so indirectly by printing the file, and using the print options. Here is what you should do to get reasonable output from Microsoft Word.

First, use the command "file:print" (the "print" command from the "file" pull-down menu. At this point a dialog box popped up. Among other things, it gave a description of the printer it is printing to. We don't know how important the details are, but it should be a postscript printer if you are to get postscript output. Note that even if you don't have such a printer, you can still download and install the driver for it (for example, start at http://www.hp.com/cposupport/eschome.html). Ultimately, the paper will be "printed" to a file and never sent to an acual machine.
Check the box labelled Print to file.
Next, select the button entitled Properties. This opened up a dialog box call Document Properties.
In this box, select the button entitled Options. This opened up a window called Advanced Document Properties.
Set the resolution to 300 DPI (we suspect this doesn't matter) selected the option called Substitute device font for truetype font (don't know if this has any effect). Check the box marked page independence - Suspect that this is a VERY IMPORTANT option for our software to work.
Hit OK wherever you could until the damn thing printed. On the way it asks for a file name, which should be irrelevant.

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Browser Requirement

It is possible to electronically submit papers for SCN '99 using an on-line form. To use this facility, please check the following:

Does your browser support Javascript ? (Netscape 3.0 or later usually does)
Can your browser be used to send email ? (Only for Microsoft Explorer or Netscape Communicator)

If your browser does not support both the cited features, ask your system support. In any case, you could send via email your paper following the directions in the E-mail Submission section.

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E-mail Submission

If your browser does not support the cited features you can send the postscript file using your email program. Please format the file as follows:

Title: Title of the paper
Corresponding Author: Corresponding Author Name
Email: Corresponding Author Email address
Phone/Fax: Corresponding Author Phone/Fax No.
Address: Corresponding Author Address
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%%Creator: dvipsk 5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software
%%Title: coloring.dvi
%%Pages: 15
...

Send the formatted file to scn99@dia.unisa.it

(*) PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Word are registered trademarks of Microsoft.

Last modified: Fri Feb 26 18:20:57 MET

SCN '99: Info for electronic sumbission

Contents

Introduction

Formatting the Paper

So you want to use Microsoft Word?

Browser Requirement

E-mail Submission

(*) PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Word are registered trademarks of Microsoft.