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Re: working around arXiv' overshoot


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  • From: TeXmacs <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: working around arXiv' overshoot
  • Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:49:41 +0100
Dear Basile,

Thanks for this extremely useful feedback.

It is still annoying to not use our real name for the creator/producer.
If I make it 'T e X m a c s', then does that work?

Best wishes, --Joris


On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 07:49:47AM +0100, Basile Audoly wrote:
> Dear Joris,
>
> I did a few more tests. Bottomline is that arXiv rejects any PDF document
> that matches the string "*tex*" in the /Creator or /Producer fields, and
> the match is case-insensitive.
>
> Changing fonts actually has no effect (contrary to what I was writing
> before).
>
> To be specific, changing both /Creator or /Producer to 'T.Xmacs' works, but
> changing to 'Texmacs' or 'GNU Texmacs' fails.
>
> TeX Gyre fonts (Bonum) works just as well, even though "TeX" appears in the
> /BaseFont field: this field seems to be ignored (which makes sense).
>
> Best,
> Basile
>
> > Le 11 nov. 2021 à 19:54, TeXmacs <address@hidden> a écrit :
> >
> > Hi Basile,
> >
> > This is a very interesting hack.
> > It would be nice to have some volunteers to investigate this further.
> >
> > Question 1: if you replace 'TeXmacs' by 'Texmacs' or 'GNU Texmacs'
> > instead of 'T.Xmacs', does it still work?
> >
> > Question 2: could someone please try with any of the TeX Gyre fonts
> > (which also have TeX in their name)?
> >
> > Question 3: if you replace 'Computer Modern' with 'Knuth's Modern Font'
> > and (if necessary) occurrences of
> > CMR, CMMI, CMEX, etc. with something else (just on lines with /FontName
> > or /BaseFont), then does this
> > also do the trick?
> >
> > Best wishes, --Joris
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 06:52:11PM +0200, Basile Audoly wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> arXiv incorrectly identifies PDF documents produced by TeXmacs as if
> >> they had been produced by LaTeX and blocks them, see my previous email.
> >>
> >> Here a dirty but simple hack to work around this:
> >> * change the document font from Computer Modern (a.k.a. Roman) to
> >> Optima—any other font except CM will probably work as well
> >> * export to PDF
> >> * open the PDF document in emacs, search for the string "TeXmacs" and
> >> replace the two occurrences corresponding to the PDF Creator and
> >> Producer with "T.Xmacs"
> >>
> >> Of course, this prevents arXiv from being aware of the full content of
> >> the document. Exporting to LaTeX is still a viable (but more
> >> complicated) alternative.
> >>
> >> Basile
> >>
>

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