Open Day - Printable Material

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  • This page is work in progress.
  • Printing these documents requires a recent version of the Chrome or Chromium browser. Firefox will produce inferior results, unless otherwise specified.
  • Your browser must understand the locale "en-GB". Otherwise, hyphenations will be disabled, resulting in ugly layout and higher page count.
  • Not all of these documents are available to all users at any time. Certain warning messages might appear.
Supervisor Notebook

Description

For lecturers only. This might be especially useful if you have many projects to view. No need to memorize which desks to visit and for what reason. Generates a personalized notebook for taking handwritten notes about projects which you are either supervising, 2nd-reading or have starred. Shows two projects per A4 sheet.
Highly recommended!

How to Print

Just go to the printable page and click the Open Print Dialog button. Make sure that you have these (pretty common) settings in the print dialog: A4 size, portrait, scale 100%, default margins.
Desk Allocation Handout

Description

A handout for examiners and guests to guide them to the desks in the laboratory rooms. It shows the allocated desk for every student ordered by name as well as by desk number.

Students and lecturers might want to print the personalized version where projects which they are supervising, 2nd reading or have starred are indicated with the letters SV, SR or * respectively.

How to Print

The document is in A6 paper size, meant to be printed 2x2 on A4 portrait, two sided.

  • Print directly from Chrome or Firefox. Use the option 4 pages per sheet. However, for some reason the resulting sheets are then sometimes in US letter size (both in FF and Chrome) and there seems to be no way to change it. It might or might not work for you. Firefox seems to give better results because it uses the available paper space more efficiently.
  • Print from Chrome to PDF with all margins 0. Then upload to the online converter https://online2pdf.com and choose Layout. Select Multiple pages per sheet, 4 pages per sheet, Row by row, A4, Portrait, untick border, all margins 0.
  • Recommended Convert to print ready PDF with this command:
    pdfjam --nup 2x2 lab_table_a6.pdf --outfile lab_table.pdf --paper a4paper
Booklet

Description

The booklet of the Open Day. It contains an abstract for every presented project. Students, lecturers and invited guests will be given a hardcopy.

How to Print

The individual pages are meant to appear in A5 size. The document itself should be printed in A4 size, landscape, 2 pages per sheet, two sided.

For correct binding and stapling the wider page margins must be inside. In other words, right pages must have odd numbers. Do not let your printer add its own margins. Set them to zero, if necessary. Use one of these methods:

  • Print the document directly. Requires a printer that can print two sided and properly collate the pages.
  • Recommended Use a PC where the pdflatex and pdfpages packages are installed. Print from Chrome to PDF and then run this command to covert to another print ready PDF:
    pdfjam --nup 2x1 --landscape --otheredge --booklet true input.pdf --outfile output.pdf
    Then print output.pdf two sided. The option --otheredge means binding along the long edge. If, for whatever reason, the output is appearing upside-down on every other page then try --no-otheredge instead and see what happens.
    Do not use pdfbook2 instead of pdfjam! This program is meant for other use cases. It adds an extra step of cropping the printable area and inserts its own margins around that area.
  • Not recommended! Use a GUI program like PDF Mix Tool to convert to 2-up and collate to booklet. But this method is often inferior to pdfjam. For example, PDF Mix Tool will not be able to generate files in a recent PDF version.
Lab Door Notes

Description

These pages are meant to be cello taped to the doors of the laboratory rooms. They show the allocated desk for every student in that room ordered by student name or by desk number.

How to Print

Clicking the Print button will open a new tab. The HTML in that page does not contain any size, margins or other media dimensions! This is intentional. Use the scale and margins options of the print dialog to adjust for best page fit and sensible page breaks. Printing will be optimized for black on white.