Publications

This page allows you to test what your LaTeX file will look like if you do not have LaTeX installed at your location.

1. Upload your LaTeX text file (.tex) and your input graphics files (.png, .jpg, or .pdf) files to ftp://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/gmincoming. Be sure to use the file naming conventions and pay particular attention to the correct .pdf file name for an input PDF graphics file. Unintended identical names between any of the input PDF files and the output PDF file will result in a warning about a damaged PDF file and problems reading the xref table.
2. Fill in the file name in the form below (e.g., behrend1 or baver).
3. Submit the form and wait for the output page. It may take some time to convert your file to PDF format.
4. If the LaTeX run succeeds, the processing script will try to run LaTeX a second time, to resolve any references (i.e., to convert figure and table numbers from ?? to the final numbers in the output PDF version).
5. The screen output will display a status message that indicates either the failure to create the output postscript file ("The file /users/ftp/gmincoming/author_name.pdf does not exist") or the success ("View your output at gmincoming/author_name.pdf"). But even if you receive a message of success, please view the output postscript file to make sure it looks okay, because if a problem occurs with the figures, LaTeX may appear to work perfectly but not produce readable figures. To access the output PDF file you can either:
   • Click on the "View your output" link at the bottom of the screen output. Depending on your browser "preference" settings, your browser will either view the PDF file or download it to your browser's home directory.
   • Access the output PDF file later from the General Meeting Proceedings' entry level ftp directory at ftp://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/gmincoming/
6. Make any changes or corrections and repeat the steps above.
7. If the output .pdf file does not appear initially or does not appear to be updated by successive runs, and if there does not appear to be a LaTeX error, your browser might have a caching problem in which it cannot see updates to the gmincoming directory. In this case, please refresh the page in your browser.