Use of these tools is not required; these are strictly for your
convenience. The basic idea is:
The NIH requires an investigator to submit a Research Plan
that's broken into many separate PDFs. But of course it's
easier to compose the Research Plan as a single document.
Manually breaking the plan into 16 pieces, and creating 16 PDFs,
and attaching each one to your grant application is a lot of work.
With the Cayuse tools, a user can:
- Create the Research Plan as a single document
- Convert the document to a single bookmarked PDF
- Upload a single PDF file to the grant application
... and Cayuse24 breaks the single PDF into many pieces,
and attaches each to the correct place on the application form.
On a PC, these tools consist of (1) MS Word templates and add-ins, and
(2) the Cayuse PDF Printer, for a "print-to-PDF" capability.
The latter requires administrator rights to install.
The Cayuse PDF Printer automatically creates the required
bookmarks when fed a properly-formatted Word document.
On Mac OS X, these tools consist of (1) MS Word templates
and add-ins, and (2) a program that adds bookmarks to
a PDF file (for use after you've created your PDF with
the Mac's native PDF capability).
