Answer. Please download the following files for document preparation using LaTeX. Unfortunately, at the present time (and in foreseeable future), there is no support for plain TeX or other flavors of TeX (such as AMSTeX, ConTeXt, etc.)

Style files and LaTeX commands LaTeX style file ieeeconf.cls LaTeX sample document sample_new.tex Some people have reported that direct download sometimes gets corrupted. Here are ieeeconf.cls and sample_new.tex zipped together ieeeconf.zip BiBTeX files IEEEtranBST.zip Guide to use ieeeconf.cls (based on IEEEtrans.cls) IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf The document sample.tex can be configured for US Letter paper or A4. Please note the following four important lines: \documentclass[letterpaper, 10 pt, conference]{ieeeconf} % use above line letter sized paper \documentclass[a4paper, 10pt, conference]{ieeeconf} % Use this line for a4 paper \IEEEoverridecommandlockouts % Needed if you want to use the \thanks command \overrideIEEEmargins % Needed to meet printer requirements.

Answer. In addition to above style files you need following additional components:

• A LaTeX distribution for your platform, e.g.: MikTeX 2.3 or higher (for Windows); TeTeX 1.0.7 or higher (for Linux and other *nix flavors) and OzTeX 5.1 (for Mac). Make sure that your installation uses Type 1 fonts. Earlier versions of LaTeX used Type 3 or Bitmapped fonts. These are not scalable (i.e. render well on screen as well as print). The paper submission system checks for fonts used and if it detects Type 3 fonts, the paper cannot be uploaded. We cannot assist with installation of these packages on your system, however, they all come with extensive installation notes.
• Either Ghostscript 7.0.4 or higher (but less than 8.13) and Ghostview 4.6 combination or Adobe Distiller 4.0 or higher. There are several other products (free/commercial) in the market that can produce compatible PDF files. However, there is no support available for them through these pages.
• Some distributions of LaTeX (e.g. MikTeX) come bundled with pdfTeX that can directly create PDF files from TeX source. However, this will require that you have all graphics/images of your document available in PDF format. It cannot convert encapsulated postscript to PDF. Its use requires minor modifications to the LaTeX source file and the details for that appear in pdfTeX documentation and are not repeated here.

Answer. Assuming that you have a LaTeX distribution for your platform with "Type 1" fonts installed. Use one of the following four options:

Using a recent distribution of MikTeX (2.3) or TeTeX (1.0.7) and Ghostscript (7.04)
Using a recent distribution of MikTeX/TeTeX and Ghostscript with GSview
Using a recent distribution of MikTeX/TeTeX and Acrobat Distiller
Using pdfTeX
Using OzTeX

latex sample
dvips -Ppdf -G0 -tletter sample
ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dMAxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true
    -sPAPERSIZE=letter sample.ps

For the sample document a4sample.tex the commands are very similar:

latex a4sample
dvips -Ppdf -G0 -ta4 a4sample
ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dMAxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true
    -sPAPERSIZE=a4 a4sample.ps

These instructions have been tested under Windows with MiKTeX 2.3, and under Linux with teTeX 1.0.7 and Ghostscript 7.0.4.

Note that without -d[options] listed above, ps2pdf will not embed and subset fonts as required by PDF compliance and your paper will not be ready for upload.

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If you are using MS-Windows operating system, we strongly recommend using GSview 4.6, a graphical font end to Ghostscript. It provides an easy interface for setting up the above parameters for ps2pdf.

The first step is to set the media size to Letter. To do this, in the GSview menubar at the top click on "Media" and select Letter as shown below:

Next, click on "File | Convert". In the ensuing window, in Options textbox type in "-dMAxSubsetPct=100", then follow screenshots below:

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To produce PDF that will print well on paper as well as look sharp on the screen you must have Type 1 fonts installed with your LaTeX distribution. To create PDF, use the following steps

latex [a4]sample (if needed use also bibTeX and rerun LaTeX)
dvips -Ppdf -G0 -tletter sample (for letter sized document)
dvips -Ppdf -G0 -ta4 a4sample (for A4 sized document)

In the distiller select Settings | Job Options as shown in the first image -



Next, under "General" tab, set paper size to Letter (8.5"x11") as shown in the circled part of the image



Next, click on the "Fonts" tab and enable font embedding as shown in the third figure.



You may want to save this setting as (say) a joboption CSSconferences and you can reuse it for future conferences. Alternatively, you may save distiller joboptions in appropriate folder as described below and it will set up suitable options.

Important: If you are setting up joboptions on your own, make sure that the PDF compatibility is set to "Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4)". IEEE will not accept papers with PDF 1.4 or 1.5 compatibility.

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• For this path you must convert all of your postscript figures to pdf. This can be done by "epstopdf" or Adobe's Acrobat distiller. In addition, you have to change your TeX-file, at minimum to include the .pdf-graphics. 
• If you start a new document from scratch, intended to get a PDF, this path is the first choice, although pdfLaTeX is still in "beta-state". 
• LaTeX and pdfLaTeX behave by default differently concerning the character-spacing. As a result, the same TeX-File compiled with LaTeX and pdfLaTeX may show different line-breaks, paragraphs, page-breaks etc. Fortunately, there is a switch in pdfLaTeX to ensure LaTeX spacing. 
• pdfLaTeX uses per default Type-1 fonts. 

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• If you are using a system with OS 8.6 or lower, you will need to use OzTeX 4.1 - then you have to make sure that you have Type 1 fonts installed since the installation comes with Type 3 fonts. Else, download and install the latest version OzTeX 5.1 that comes standard with Type 1 CM and AMS fonts.
• Download the Mac version of ieeeconf.cls with appropriate carriage returns. Some users have experienced difficulty converting the windows version to Mac leading to compilation problems.

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Answer. There are currently two viable alternatives in producing compliant PDF documents from LaTeX (dvips method and pdfTeX Method). The first option is currently the best one owing to the fact that the LaTeX source file does not have to be modified, all style and class files are supported, and bitmapped as well as postscript figures can be included directly into the final PDF. Both methods of creating compliant PDFs work well. However the work flow and requirements are slightly different. Of course, they all require that the TeX installation being used supports Type 1 fonts.

	dvips/ghostscript/distiller	pdfTeX
Fonts	Type 1	Type 1
Style Files	Support all known styles	Limited support
Platforms	All	Linux (Y), Win (Y), Mac (?)
Graphics	EPS/JPEG/PNG	PDF
Workflow	latex+bibtex --> dvips --> PDF	latex+bibtex --> PDF

dvipdfm works well, but has some bugs in processing certain types of .eps figures. The only reliable way to work with dvipdfm when including encapsulated postscript figures in your document is to first convert them to PDF.

Answer. All earlier TeX/LaTeX installation used METAFONT technology to create Type 3 fonts. These fonts were customized for the printing device for which they were meant. Unfortunately that does not help in creation of PDF that render well on the screen as well as print. If you have the (La)TeX system installed on your own computer, upgrade it to a newer version. Most newer packaged distributions come with Type 1 fonts. All packages mentioned above support Type 1 fonts. If you are using a Network installation of LaTeX, please request your system administrator to upgrade the installation with a more recent distribution. Unfortunately, there is no reliable way to convert the font from bitmapped to vector once the document has been generated. The changes have to be made when converting from latex --> dvi --> PDF.

Answer. It may happen that after using the

dvips -Ppdf -G0 -tletter and ps2pdf