CDROM Readme
Updates and additions
General Comments and Notes
Welcome! This is the ICSLP 96 CDROM. It contains several types of
files and supports two general methods of access; via Acrobat reader,
and via web browser. Acrobat software for Macintosh, Windows (3.1 and
95), and Unix is available for installation from the CDROM if needed.
If your system contains a web browser like Netscape or Mosaic, you may
alternatively use the browser to gain access to many of the features
of the CDROM using the "Open File..." selection of the File
menu. However, all technical papers from the proceedings are stored in
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), and hence require a PDF viewer,
even when accessed via a web browser.
To view the CDROM contents using an Acrobat reader, start with the
file ICSLP96.PDF. If you are using a web browser, start with the file
ICSLP96.HTM.
Although the actual file structure of the CDROM is relatively
transparent when using either Acrobat or a web browser, it may be
helpful to know how files are organized, for example, if you wish to
locate and copy a waveform file from the CD for use with other
software. The CDROM contains separate subdirectories for each volume
of the ICSLP 96 proceedings, and within each volume directory,
separate subdirectories for each paper. These individual paper
directories have arbitrary numerical names derived from our internal
document control system and contain (a) the PDF rendition of the
manuscript, (b) ancillary waveform files (WAV files) if present, and
(c) additional image files (supplied, e.g., as GIF files) if
present. If additional image files are present, they will appear as
additional PDF files within the directory, or in some cases, have been
incorporated into the manuscript PDF file.
In preparing the CDROM, we have noticed a few things worth passing
along to prospective users. These fall into three
categories: limitations of the present technology; hints, tricks, and
outright bugs relating to the supplied software; and errata. Each of
these is discussed below. As we discover additional things and/or
solutions to known problems, we will place this information on the
ICSLP 96 web site at http://www.asel.udel.edu/icslp/.
As soon as it is available, our web site will also contain information
about cost and ordering of printed or CDROM proceedings for ICSLP
96.
Technological Limitations
- Some papers are harder to read on screen than others. Hard to read
documents also tend to be more slowly rendered on the screen. This
has to do with the types of fonts supplied in the postscript
documents we received. The screen appearance does not effect the
quality of the printed output for these documents.
- Some papers were not available in a machine readable format or we
could not use the supplied machine readable information. These papers
were scanned from the camera ready hard copy. Scanned pages are of
intermediate screen image quality, but printed output should be
indistinguishable from the original scanned copy. Unfortunately,
scanned papers are not content searchable (but see the following
comment). Consequently, we avoided using scanned images of manuscripts
where possible, even if it led to slight differences in the appearance
of the CDROM and printed copy (see the comment on differences in
appearance under Errata).
- Since indexing is impossible for scanned images, where possible,
the original file was included (with the extension
.idx
)
and used in creating the index. If search results refer to such a
file, there will be a bookmark in that file referring to its corrected
counterpart (with the same basename and a .pdf
extension).
Hints, Tricks, Bugs
- If your PDF viewer is set to "greek" text, very small text, especially
in equations, cannot be seen (even at high magnification). This
can be avoided by unselecting the 'greek text below _ pixels' option
in the 'General Preferences' box of Acroread.
- We believe all waveform files are in RIFF (WAV) format. However,
the hyperlinks contained in the PDF documents use a QuickTime Movie
link for playback of audio files. Unix versions of Adobe's Acroread do
not (at present) support the QuickTime Movie format, but we understand
that this support will be available in the future. As a workaround,
use one of the freely available playback programs designed for your
Unix system to "manually" play the files. See our web site if you need
assistance in locating such software.
- Hyperlinks to waveforms on Windows 95 systems are not handled
correctly. A slider will appear briefly then disappear and no audio
will be heard. Adobe reports that this bug will be fixed in the next
release of their QuickTime player which should be available in late
October 1996. As a work-around, we suggest opening WAV files in the
the Windows 95 sound file player, or double clicking the sound file
icon for the file to be played.
- In a few cases, graphs appear to "blow up" with incorrectly
drawn lines going far outside the bounds of the figure. These graphs
may be viewable by reducing the PDF reader magnification, or printing
out the page in question.
- We have found several instances of PDF files failing on a single
type of computer system and/or with a specific release of a PDF reader
program, but working in most instances. If you experience problems,
particularly "Unable to generate font" problems, see if the file can
be viewed on a different computer or with a different version of the
PDF reader program.
- The author index with hyperlinks to manuscripts is only available
as an HTML (web browser) document. The link in ICSLP96.PDF to the
author index is thus a www link, and not a PDF hyperlink. You will
need to have a web browser configured within Acrobat to follow this
link.
Errata
- Some authors didn't indicate in their documents where links to
additional sound or image files should be placed. In this case, links
were created on an additional page appended to the original document
and the sound or image files were listed in alphanumeric sequence by
filename.
- The appearance of some papers may differ slightly between CDROM
and the printed (proceedings) copy. The conversion from postscript to
PDF can lose some information, particularly related to shading in
graphs. Wherever we noticed this, the printed proceedings contains the
image as received in the camera ready hard copy. However, to avoid
scanning pages (and losing content search capabilities), we allowed
small shading differences in figures on the CDROM as long as the
figures appeared to remain interpretable.
- There are a few papers that appear on the CDROM that do not appear
in the printed proceedings. These were papers delivered after the
printing date for the hard copies. Printed versions of these papers
were distributed as an addendum at the ICSLP 96 conference.
- A few papers which were received after the final program was
printed have titles and/or authorship which does not exactly match the
information in the program and in the CDROM tables of contents. We
apologize for this discrepancy. Please see the Errata sheet in the
Proceedings Addendum for a complete list of differences.
- The search index supplied with the CDROM did not
contain paper titles. We have now build a search index which does include
that information. With this new index,
the titles of the papers are displayed as the results of a query, and,
by clicking the 'Info' button, the paper's authors and its conference
session code and title are also available. Unfortunately, we have
found that the Acrobat reader software cannot follow links to
indexed items unless both the index and referenced pdf file are
located on the same file system. Thus, while the new index is more
informative, it cannot be used to directly link papers on the CDROM.
However, the new index can be used as an indirect link. When a paper
in the index is highlighted, the index dialog box displays the path and
name of the indexed paper. This information can be used to locate the
file through the Acrobat Reader File menu. All the papers on the CDROM
are divided into subdirectories by proceedings volume number and by a
paper ID number. This information is shown in the index dialog box and
can be used to find the corresponding paper in the CDROM using the
file browser built into the Reader program. If, for example, a paper
is listed as
C:\ACROBAT\VOL1\A209\A209.PDF
you would instead look on whatever drive contains the CDROM (e.g., D:) for
D:\VOL1\A209\A209.PDF
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