Inspired by the live thesis efforts of Attila at Pimm which I have been following recently, I’ve decided to go ahead and post an online version of my own MSc thesis on the identification of stem-like cells in the thymus of mice lacking tumour supressor gene p53.
One of my very first posts was about putting a thesis together into a single PDF file, so hopefully this provides a physical illustration of the end result.
As an aside, chances are a thesis PDF is going to be friggin massive (mine was >300Mb), so I thought I would briefly mention a further nifty programme for PDF editing on a mac that converted my mofo of a thesis into a more manageable size for distribution.
PDF Compress is a simple, fast and easy to use programme that converts big bulky PDFs into much smaller files, without excessive loss of resolution, in one easy step. My original 300Mb thesis PDF was downsized into a much sleeker 1.3 Mb PDF that is easily sendable or uploadable.
While the programme is only a trial version, you can cheekily request further trial licenses when the original one runs out. Although if you’ll be using it regularly I’d suggest buying the license (around US$35).
Kapai.
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