Daily Progress Reports for the 625 Latex Project

Week 9

10/26

• Met with Jim and Steve to discuss assignment changes
• Established 625 progress report page

10/28

Week 10

11/1 625

• Till c2_4

11/4

• Till c2_7. Figures for c2_8 and c2_9 have been transformed to png files

Week 11

11/8 The left of ch2; meeting

11/9: Modify. Only changing htb to tb does not remove the large figures to the right place.

11/11 Modification. I don't know why [tb]s still don't work; only [tbp]s work finally.

Week 12

Modification and Ch3

Week 13

11/22 Finish Ch3 and all the png figures for Ch4.

11/22 Problems in Ch3 are put in the Instruction folder. Continue on Ch4.

The main file I'm working on is "AAAOpticsRootBook2010modified".

Week 14

11/29 Finish Ch4. Problems in Ch4 are listed in the instructional folder.

• Figures for Ch5.

11/30 Figures in Ch5. Problems are listed.

12/2 Till c5_2. Problems are listed.

Week 15

12/6 Modification from Ch1 to Ch5.

12/7 Modification finished, except the scale factor. I want to do that finally, since there might by larger figures in later chapters.

• For the figure-caption rotations, I did not find any other better ways; so I just used "sidewaysfigure". Till c5_4. For 5_4_9, I just copied the separate figures and pasted them; then erased the uncovered parts, and did the "chose-copy-paste as new image" again.

12/9 c5_5 is done except the captions and extra empty pages.

• I rotated Fig. 5_5_22, because it's easier to look at it in this way. But now it does not show at all. Fig. 5_5_20 is too wide.

Spring Semester

2/16/2011

Project officially taken over by Tim. Started by accessing AFS-space, examining what has been created so far, and beginning conversion. Need to start on figures 6.5 for conversion; will proceed to .tif -> .png -> .pdf conversion as soon as possible

Suggestion: If the graphics are simple line drawings then here's a bash script to convert a directory of them to native PDF:

for img in $(ls *.tif)
do
    convert $img ${img%.tif}.pbm
    potrace -a 0.2 -n -b pdf -o ${img%.tif}.pdf ${img%.tif}.pbm
    rm ${img%.tif}.pbm
done

See if the resulting PDFs are acceptable. The advantage is that you can resize the PDF as much as you want because it is now vector graphics. You'll need potrace and ImageMagick.

2/21/2011

Began by going through document; checking for errors.

• Page 6; Extra "This page is not used" comment found on page with text
• Page 15, 16, 18: "Fig. ??" error located; seems to be reoccurring throughout text, need to check over code
• Diagrams end around Chapter 6.3; assembly checked and seems accurate

7/12/2011

Notes: In chapter 6.3, no references were found in the text for figures 13-15.

Tim Cochrane