Formating NSF Fastlane grant proposals

1. Formating the pages.
2. Using bibtex for the references.
3. Printing the resulting pdf files.

Creating the page format

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
%   Optional. It doesn't look as good with math, since it is
% too dark.  But it does make smaller files.
% 
% \usepackage{times}
%----------------
% Set up the headers and footers

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{}\rhead{}
%%%%% Substitute "SUMMARY", "REFERENCES CITED", etc in the
%%%%% next line as appropriate for the various sections of
%%%%% the proposal.
\chead{\large\bf PROJECT DESCRIPTION} 
\lfoot{}\rfoot{}\cfoot{\thepage}
\renewcommand\headrulewidth{1pt}
\renewcommand\footrulewidth{1pt}
%----------------
% Set up page size
\addtolength\oddsidemargin{-2cm}
\addtolength\textwidth{4cm}
\addtolength\headwidth{4cm}
\addtolength\topmargin{-.5in}
\addtolength\textheight{1.00in}
\addtolength\headheight{6pt}
%----------------
% This can be used in drafts to allow room to scribble in
% corrections.
% 
%\usepackage{setspace}
%\onehalfspacing  % or \doublespacing
%----------------
%\usepackage{showkeys}
\begin{document}

You are responsible for what goes in here!

Making the "REFERENCES CITED"

%----------------
%   (For Project Description only) If you are using bibtex
% (and if you aren't, then you should be), here is the
% method I used for citations.
% 
% (1) While doing the writing, treat it as a ordinary paper,
% using the following two lines:
% 
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{---name of your .bib file---}
%
% Now assume that all is ready.
% 
% (2) To make the "REFERENCES CITED" section: Assume that
% the project description is contained in a file called
% "research.tex".  Then you now have an automatically
% created file called "research.bbl".  Rename it (or copy
% it) to "references.tex".  Add in the latex stuff at the
% top and the bottom to make a self-contained file (with the
% latex prefix as described as above, to create the headers
% and footers).  In addition, insert the following line to
% remove the superfluous heading "References":
 
     \renewcommand{\refname}{}
 
% This completes the file "references.tex".
% 
% (3) Return to the project description file "research.tex".
% Comment out the two biblography commands by putting a
% percent sign at the beginning:
% 
   % \bibliographystyle{plain}
   % \bibliography{---name of your .bib file---}
%
%  Add the following line before \begin{document}:
% 
 \nofiles
% 
% This will prevent writing a new file "research.aux."  You
% don't want to do so, because without the above lines LaTeX
% would not write the citations to the new research.aux
% file.

Printing the files

1. From Acroread. You need to make sure the button "Download Fonts Once" is not checked. The default is wrong.
2. Using Ghostscript. The following command converts a pdf file to a postscript file. The command "pdf2ps" does not work correctly.
   gs -sDEVICE=pswrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=proposal.ps A1proposal.pl