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Re: working around arXiv' overshoot


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  • From: Frank <address@hidden>
  • To: Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden>, address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: working around arXiv' overshoot
  • Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 10:31:21 +0000
Hello,

According to
https://github.com/arXiv/arxiv-submission-ui/blob/develop/submit/controllers/ui/new/reasons.py
we should report the issue to address@hidden

Best,
Frank

于 2021年11月19日 UTC 下午3:34:41, Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden> 写到:
>I could post an issue in the bug tracker of the ArXiv
>(https://github.com/arXiv/arxiv-base/issues), but I would like to hear
>from you before I do that. Do you think it is better classifying it
>under "bug" or something else?
>
>G.
>
>Am 19.11.2021 um 16:29 schrieb TeXmacs:
>> 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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