FastLane just implemented this in to production but wants to monitor it over the weekend. FastLane will still accept PDF, but will accept other formats as well (TEX, Word). They will then do the conversion on their end. If all goes well, they will formally announce it on Monday.

At 03:25 PM 1/5/2001 -0500, you wrote:

Within the last two hours NSF has eliminated the need to convert source documents into pdf format for proposal components submitted via FastLane.

This does not yet appear in the "Advisories" on the fastlane home page; the info that pdf conversion is no longer necessary only appears within the proposal, at the individual interfaces where one begins the upload process.

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