Accessing NYJM Papers

Our papers are offered in four formats: pdf, hypertex dvi, standard dvi, and postscript.

We strongly recommend reading the pdf format. It has extensive internal cross-reference links (as well as external links), so you can flip to the statement of a theorem when it is used in the proof of another. The pdf file also contains all the illustrations internally (unlike the tex versions of some papers), so you don't need to deal with zip files or worry about getting your platform to display postscript.

To browse our papers on-line, you will need an internet connection and a graphical browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer. (The former is currently better for reading our html files, as it has better support for style sheets.)

Netscape or Internet Explorer will still need a helper program or plug-in to display our papers. The pdf format may be accessed most easily. All you need is to get the Acrobat Reader from http://www.adobe.com. It is available free of charge for unix systems, PCs, and Macs, and is self-installing on the latter two platforms (and is easy to install on unix). It is much smaller than a tex installation, and gives better visual rendering than the standard postscript readers.

Make sure that you have version 3.0 or better of the Acrobat Reader. A new method of compression was implemented in that version that reduced the file size dramatically. Our papers use it.

The tex formats can be read with a tex viewer. Some tex viewers can view hypertex "specials", and can follow the internal and external links in our hypertex dvi files. In any case, a full tex installation is needed to access our dvi formats.

The postscript format can be browsed with GSview on a PC, or by Ghostview on unix. Either one requires a Ghostscript installation on your system (available through links at the above sites). One advantage of ghostscript is that you can use it to print out a paper even if you don't have a graphical interface on your computer at all. (You can do the same with tex, if you have a tex installation.) If you don't have a graphics terminal, you can download our papers using the lynx web browser.

You may need to tell your web browser which helper program or plug-in to use for a given format. Your browser may also have this information already. On PCs, installing the helper often sets the appropriate preferences automatically. On unix machines, your system administrator may have done it. So the easiest thing is to get the file and see what happens. If you have a helper program that your browser isn't accessing (or want to change to a different helper), you should be able to do this by setting the "preferences" or "options" menu on your browser. (On a unix system, you can do it in a .mailcap file.) A local guru should be able to tell you how.