Converting your Thesis to PDF
Your thesis must be converted to pdf before it can be deposited electronically. It can be uploaded as one or multiple files.
- If you have only one file to upload please name it thesis_fulltext.pdf.
- If your thesis file is larger than 80MB please split it into appropriately named sections eg introduction.pdf, chapter1.pdf etc.
- if any of your files exceeds this limit and cannot be easily split, please contact Library eServices.
PC users
The University has a site-licence for a conversion tool, Amyuni PDF Converter, which can be installed on University computers. This tool is accessed in the same way as a printer, from the printer selection box from the print menu.
If you use Office 2010, Word can save a document as a PDF file. If you use Office 2007, you can also do this if you install a plugin available from the Microsoft web site.
Macintosh users
Either Save As or Print the document and choose the PDF option.
Converting Latex documents
The easiest and safest way of producing a PDF file from a latex document is to use the "ps2pdf" program - part of the ghostscript package, included with most linux distributions.
For example, if the postscript file created when you printed your thesis was named "thesis.ps", running the command "ps2pdf thesis.ps" should produce a PDF file of your thesis called "thesis.pdf". If possible, check this PDF file on another platform (eg MacOS or Windows) to make sure that fonts and especially images are rendered the way you want.
You can also use ps2pdf to convert your thesis from 
For more help see the FAQ page from PS2PDF.com
Having trouble converting your thesis to PDF?
Contact Library eServices including as many details as possible about the application used to make the original file, the conversion package you have tried to use and the problems you have had. If you would prefer us to do the conversion, we can arrange for you to send us an electronic copy of the thesis for us to convert for you.