Monday, August 28, 2006
Assignment 2: The Proposal
This assignment asks you to develop a full proposal for the project that you identified in the concept paragraph. You will end up doing two revisions in the course of two weeks, with a presentation at the end. Together, we will determine which of these proposals will become class projects. There will also be a special award for those who's project is chosen! Please start early, writing isn't easy, and you will have other work to do during that time.
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This assignment requires creating a PDF document. There are numerous ways of doing this. A couple of easy ones that I have found are:
PDF995 - http://www.pdf995.com
Ad supported software that creates a printer on your Windows machine. This allows you to "print" PDFs from any application that can print it's output. It will display an ad each time you create a PDF unless you purchase it ($10-$20).
OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/
This is an open source competitor to Microsoft Office. It has all of the applications included in MS Office and it's free. Runs on both Linux and Windows. Each application in the suite has the ability to save as a PDF file.
OpenOffice is an excellent alternative to MS office considering how small it is, how cheap, and how unintrusive it is to your system configuration (does not install lots of startup files and unnecessary .dlls)
Adobe also offers 5 free pdf conversions on their website.
There is also the free cutepdf writer. Personally I prefer it over pdf995.
I also prefer CutePDF because it lacks the advertisements that PDF995 has, and it seems reasonably fast, and it's free of cost.
http://www.cutepdf.com/index.htm
Also, PDFCreator is available on SourceForge. It's good and it's open source. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
If you're using OpenOffice, I suggest using the MultiSave package: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/various_topics/StarXpert_OOoMultiSave.zip
It will generate OpenDocument, Microsoft Office, and PDF formatted files for the word processor, spreadsheet, and slideshow components of OpenOffice and MS Office.
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