The template provided here can be used with latex and/or pdflatex.

use with latex:
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 #run latex and bibtex to produce a dvi-style
 latex sps2006 
 bibtex sps2006
 latex sps2006 #needed TWICE to get references right
 latex sps2006 #

 #produce postscript that will display properly when converted to pdf
 dvips -Ppdf -osps2006.ps sps2006

 #make pdf by using Adobe Acrobat Distiller (commercial program
 #available on windows and on some unix platforms) or by using the 
 #following command
 ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 sps2006.ps #don't forget: A4

 #use either of the following commands to check if your pdf 
 #displays and prints correctly:
   acroread sps2006.pdf
   xpdf  sps2006.pdf


use with pdflatex:
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 #note: pdflatex only supports a limited number of picture formats
 #in particular it does NOT support eps-figures. However, you can
 #easily convert eps-figures to pdf-figures using the command epstopdf
 #which is part of the ghostscript distribution

 #run latex and bibtex to produce a dvi-style
 pdflatex sps2006
 bibtex sps2006
 pdflatex sps2006 #needed TWICE to get references right 
 pdflatex sps2006 #

 #use either of the following commands to check if your pdf 
 #displays and prints correctly:
   acroread sps2006.pdf
   xpdf  sps2006.pdf