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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 16:29:31 +0100
Dear Giovanni,

If someone could get a patch accepted that solves this problem at ArXiv,
then that would be very nice. But I personally have no time for this;
I just changed 'TeXmacs' to 'T e X m a c s' for the Pdf creator;
this is a bit ugly, bit it will do for now.

Best wishes, --Joris


On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 02:48:15PM +0000, Giovanni Piredda wrote:
> Maybe the examination of the code in https://github.com/arXiv could
> also help.
>
> Perhaps they accept pull requests.
>
> Giovanni
>
>
> Am 19.11.2021 um 11:49 schrieb TeXmacs:
> >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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