CD-ROM Sponsor File Submission Instructions
Dear Colleague,
Thank you for sponsoring the Purdue CD ROM Series! The following details are provided to ensure that your website will be readable on CD-ROM. Please read them carefully. Feel free to modify your website for CD-ROM to include not only links on the CD, but also links to your online website.
Format:
- We need an electronic copy of your logo in tif (uncompressed)format, in 150 dpi resolution if possible. This will be used for printing your logo on the CD cover.
- For your website on disk: Filenames must be 8 chars.3 chars and should conform to ISO9660 standards. Long filenames will not work!!! Use underlines instead of hyphens if necessary.
- All internal links must be relative. Absolute links will not work.
- Images and graphics are preferred in gif or jpg formats..
- MS Word documents and Powerpoint presentations are fine. Please tell us the version used and platform. Text files are preferred in ASCII format.
- Movies are preferred in avi or mov format. QT and mpeg are also acceptable. If at all possible, please sent multiple formats, we will include them all. Animated gifs are helpful for those without plug-ins.
- Java applets ok, java scripts are not. We are working in HTML 3.2.
Submission: However you send your files, YOU MUST let us know when you send them. We will confirm within 3 working days. If you don't hear from us, please resend and renotify.
For file transfer, FTP is preferred. If you have multiple directories, please send your files as a zip archive with the directory structure preserved.
To FTP:
- Connect to ftp.cyto.purdue.edu
- Login as anonymous
- Your name as password
- Change directory to pub, then to cdupload (cd cd pub, then cd cdupload)
- Use binary mode (bin)
- "Put" your files - NOTE: You will NOT be able to see your files !! for security reasons.
- Inform us that you have sent it (Best way is to fax the checklist)
- We will confirm within 3 working days. If you don't hear from us, please resend and renotify.
If you cannot FTP your files, you can send them on diskette, 100 Mb zip disk for PCs, or CDR. Please do not submit binary files as email attachments - they typically get scrambled and are unusable.
Copyrights: Copyrighted material will be accepted ONLY IF written permission from the publisher is included.Copyright Transfer Form Unpublished research not slated for submission in the same form (to meetings or journals) is preferred. Individuals retain copyright of materials on the CD. However, material is placed on the CD with implied general permission to use the material for non-commercial purposes.