Making a Door Label

The Problem

Incoming CSD students get to experience the Immigration Course, a two-plus week introduction to the largest Computer Science faculty in the country. Buried somewhere in the talk about computing resources is the suggestion that we remake our office door labels so they have our names on them, instead of the name of some illustrious newly-minted PhD (heh...).

Since, as I understand it, each year the lucky senior grad student giving the computing talk almost wholesale cops the previous year's lecture, the page of instructions for making a door label goes all the way back to 1995. The files themselves date back to 1989. If you can track down the resources listed (which has become a little tricky) and manage to produce the postscript file, you're presented with the choice of two door labels. One has the Carnegie Mellon logo in the outdated "tilted square", and the other has the Starship Enterprise.


Neither of these are attractive choices.

 

The Solution

After some tweaking, I was successful in making my own doorlabel template. The files are at /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/aothman/Public/doorlabel.zip. Just run pdflatex after editing the names to produce your wonderful new door label, which will look something like this:

There. Much better.

Update: Alex Grubb has modified the style files to include e-mails, if that's more your style. The files are in email.zip in my Public directory.