Guidelines for Authors - Authors' Kit

All contributions are published in the proceedings that will be available at the conference. Please follow the guidelines for the preparation of the camera-ready paper:

• The contribution must be written in English
• Please prepare 8 pages (including references and figures)
• Please use paper size A4 (8.3 by 11.7 in)
• Each paper should start with an abstract of about 100-150 words
• Use font size 12 pt
• If you do not use LaTeX, use font Times New Roman
• The size and position of the text is given below:

  text height:	24.7 cm	=	9.7 inches
  text width:	17.0 cm	=	6.7 inches
  left border:	2.0 cm	=	0.8 inches
  top border:	2.0 cm	=	0.8 inches

• All contributions must have two columns
• Do not use page numbering
• All papers are printed in black and white. There are no color images in the proceedings

Please obtain from us:

Please send:

• Three copies of the camera-ready paper, and
• the copyright form

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel

Computer Graphics Group

Max-Planck Institut für Informatik

Im Stadtwald

66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

Additionally, we need:

An electronic version of your paper:

• The LaTeX (or Word) file
• The Postscript version
• All pictures and other files needed

Please put both the LaTeX (or Word) file and a postscript file on our FTP server. You should assure that the postscript file is complete. If you should use Microsoft Word, all fonts must be included into the postscript file when printing the paper to a file. Please follow the hints for creating PostScript files with Microsoft Windows at the end of this guideline. The LaTeX file (or Word Document) should be archived together with the postscript file and all the pictures using the programs "tar" and "gzip" (UNIX) or "zip" (DOS). Please name your paper "x_y" -- x_y being your first and surname separated by underscore -- and put this file in the directory /pub/vmv00/incoming of our FTP server as shown below:

If you do not have access to our ftp server, please send us a floppy disk with the camera ready hard copy of your paper. The file should follow the conventions given above.

Hints for creating postscript files with Microsoft Windows:

• Do not use printer-fonts
• Use Adobe type 1
• Set halftone frequence to 60
• Print to a PostScript-file