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iLounge has a good review of all the various iPhone programs that allow you to upload and view supported file types. These are typically PDF, images, Office and iWork documents. One could upload a PDF of a journal article or preprint to read on the plane or train (assuming you don’t prefer paper.)
Of [...]
Tags: apple, files, iPhone, PDF — .So, I spent a lot of time googling on this. I had a pdf of my thesis I wanted to get printed into book form – and the site I was using to publish needed all the used fonts embedded in the PDF file. It claimed that one was not, in fact, embedded. [...]
Tags: fonts, latex, PDF, pdftex — .The excellent Papers has been updated to 1.5 and includes additional search engines as well as the ability to use search engine plug-ins. New search engines include Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science. No ADS yet but Google Scholar does an okay job finding ADS and ApJ papers.
It also boasts improved Leopard [...]
Tags: ADS, bibtex, journals, Leopard, papers, PDF — .So, this week I made a poster for the Tex-Mex 9 conference in San Antonio, which I’m off to tomorrow. My tool of choice, Apple’s new Pages program, part of iWork which also includes Keynote.
In the past, I had tried to use Powerpoint. The problem with Powerpoint for posters is twofold. One, [...]
Tags: apple, keynote, pages, PDF, posters, powerpoint — .Ok, a little late but as promised here is a poster template for Apple’s Pages. This is by far the best program for making scientific posters that I’ve seen. Support for vector graphics, floating and in-line images, easy columns. Very nice. Certainly no need to use Powerpoint (or even Keynote for [...]
Tags: apple, keynote, pages, PDF, posters — .Bad Behavior has blocked 290 access attempts in the last 7 days.
