How to retrieve and read papers

Proceedings contain of title page, preface, table of contents and 43 articles. All papers are stored in compressed Postscript format. Papers can be printed and/or viewed by the following ways:

1. On-line view individual papers via WWW interface.

   If your browser tuned properly it is enough to find a paper in the main page of the Proceedings and click at Full text. Then after retrieving the document you will see the article at your screen. To test it click here. If your browser didn't created a new window which displays one word then you should configure your browser.

   To configure your browser, see

   • Configuring Unix browsers to view compressed postscript
   • Configuring VMS browsers to view compressed postscript
   • Configuring Windows and Macintosh browsers to view compressed postscript
   Some Microsoft Windows and Macintosh browsers do not conform to the http specification and cannot uncompress files so easily.

   If these recipes didn't help as a last resort you can download a file with article to your working disk, uncompress it by gzip and then view it by Ghostscript, Ghostview or other software.




2. Print an individual paper

   There are two ways to print an individual paper:

   • First view the article on-line via Web browser plus Postscript viewer. Postscript viewer should have a button Print. Click it!
   
   
   
   • Download it to a disk. You might need temporarily deactivate browser helper which automatically calls Postscript viewer. Refer the section above how to do it. Then you have to uncompress the file by gzip. Many expensive printers have a built-in interpreter of Postscript language and they are able to print Postscript documents directly. Cheap printers cannot do it and then a postscript file has to be processed via special program, f.e. Ghostscript. Refer this page for details.
     
     Beware: if you printer doesn't have a built-in postscript interpreter you get tens of thousands pages of trash in attempt to print Postscript document. If you are not sure, first try to print this document. You should see one and only one word written by large letters.
   
   
   

3. Print all papers

   Tar file with all papers is available here (12Mb, 285 pages). To print all papers do the following:

   1. Retrieve the file.
   
   
   2. Unpack it using program tar.
   
   
   3. Retrieve a template file for printing.
   
   
   4. Edit it to customize for your computer.
   
   
   5. Check, does your printer prints Postscript files correctly.
   
   
   6. Print!
   
   

Known problems.

Some articles will not be displayed on-line via Web or not displayed properly, f.e. page numbers will not been seen. The reason: authors used unreliable products of Microsoft company. At the same time affected files can still be printed in some postscript printers. If somebody knows remedy from this plague, please write to petrov@kuestner.geod.uni-bonn.de.

Some articles will be displayed properly only if to look pages consecutively in ascending order: from the first page to the last page, but in attempt to jump to the page in the middle postscript viewer will generate an error message. Possible reason: imperfection of the driver used to generate postscript code.

Proceedings were prepared automatically using electronic forms and articles in postscript format submitted by authors. You may be interested to learn how they have been done. It is not a secret. Click here.

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This page was prepared by Leonid Petrov petrov@kuestner.geod.uni-bonn.de
Last update: 18-MAR-99 09:24:41