Welcome to the VI2000 Author Information Page!

You will find below some advice for preparing your final manuscript. Because transmission of documents across multiple platforms and operating systems is often perilous, we ask for your collaboration in order to make this first electronic experience a complete success!

• Prepare your final camera ready manuscript according to the conference guidelines. LaTeX2e user's can download the VI2000style that sets the correct text area and margins. This package should be used in conjunction with the standard "article" document class and "psnfss-times" package.
• One file formats is supported for sending papers: the Portable Document Format (PDF) .
• The format is PDF because it's more compact and can be read on most computers using the Acrobat reader freeware. If your word processor can produce this format, or if you have the Acrobat PDF driver installed on your machine, please use it!
• If your paper format is Postscriptyou can  to convert it to PDF using the Acrobat Distiller(Adobe)  For this conversion to work, you must not forget to tell your postscript driver to include in your file all non standard Adobe fonts.
• Various alternatives for PDF conversion exist on the internet. In our opinion, Acrobat is by far the best option but some people may not be willing or able to use it. One shareware converter for many platforms including linux can be found at http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html . Apparently ghostscript also supports postscript to PDF file conversion. See, for example http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/doc/Ps2pdf.htm . Unfortunately, we cannot provide assistance with these tools.
• Send the camera ready paper as an email attachment in PDF format to vi2000@cim.mcgill.ca including the following:
• Name your file Camera_ID.pdf
• Place your ID in the subject field
• Place the corresponding Author's name and email address in the message body.

Also send us a hard copy of your paper to the following address:

Professor Gregory Dudek
Centre for Intelligent Machines
School of Computer Science
McGill University
3480 University St
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7


• The deadline for uploading your final camera ready manuscript is April 3, 2000.