Note: for those preparing a journal paper for the Visual Computer, click here and follow the links for “Instructions for Authors”.Apologies for any confusion: you should use the CGI2012 stylesheet for the Journal proceedings.
LaTeX is a document preparation language used for high quality formatting. You will need a platform specific LaTeX to prepare your camera ready document for printing. Below we include a list of commonly used LaTeX compilers:
Compiled PDF files are viewable using a standard PDF viewer. PostScript files can be viewed using GhostScript or similar.
LaTeX IDE’s greatly simplify this process and are generally free. Consider KILE on Linux/Unix, TeXnicCenter on Windows, and TexShop on Mac.
Some additional information on LaTeX:
- Bibliography and Citation Management
- Including graphics for Figures
- Document formatting
- Labels and Cross-Referencing
- Mathematics Equations and Symbols
- Tables


