- 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:
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Dear Joris,
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I did a few more tests. Bottomline is that arXiv rejects any PDF document
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that matches the string "*tex*" in the /Creator or /Producer fields, and
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the match is case-insensitive.
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Changing fonts actually has no effect (contrary to what I was writing
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before).
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To be specific, changing both /Creator or /Producer to 'T.Xmacs' works, but
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changing to 'Texmacs' or 'GNU Texmacs' fails.
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TeX Gyre fonts (Bonum) works just as well, even though "TeX" appears in the
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/BaseFont field: this field seems to be ignored (which makes sense).
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Best,
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Basile
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> Le 11 nov. 2021 à 19:54, TeXmacs <address@hidden> a écrit :
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> Hi Basile,
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> This is a very interesting hack.
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> It would be nice to have some volunteers to investigate this further.
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> Question 1: if you replace 'TeXmacs' by 'Texmacs' or 'GNU Texmacs'
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> instead of 'T.Xmacs', does it still work?
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> Question 2: could someone please try with any of the TeX Gyre fonts
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> (which also have TeX in their name)?
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> Question 3: if you replace 'Computer Modern' with 'Knuth's Modern Font'
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> and (if necessary) occurrences of
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> CMR, CMMI, CMEX, etc. with something else (just on lines with /FontName
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> or /BaseFont), then does this
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> also do the trick?
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> Best wishes, --Joris
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> On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 06:52:11PM +0200, Basile Audoly wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> arXiv incorrectly identifies PDF documents produced by TeXmacs as if
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>> they had been produced by LaTeX and blocks them, see my previous email.
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>> Here a dirty but simple hack to work around this:
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>> * change the document font from Computer Modern (a.k.a. Roman) to
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>> Optima—any other font except CM will probably work as well
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>> * export to PDF
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>> * open the PDF document in emacs, search for the string "TeXmacs" and
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>> replace the two occurrences corresponding to the PDF Creator and
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>> Producer with "T.Xmacs"
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>> Of course, this prevents arXiv from being aware of the full content of
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>> the document. Exporting to LaTeX is still a viable (but more
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>> complicated) alternative.
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>> Basile
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- Re: working around arXiv' overshoot, TeXmacs, 11/11/2021
- Re: working around arXiv' overshoot, Basile Audoly, 11/19/2021
- Re: working around arXiv' overshoot, TeXmacs, 11/19/2021
- Re: working around arXiv' overshoot, Giovanni Piredda, 11/19/2021
- Re: working around arXiv' overshoot, TeXmacs, 11/19/2021
- Re: working around arXiv' overshoot, Giovanni Piredda, 11/19/2021
- Re: working around arXiv' overshoot, Frank, 11/20/2021
- Re: working around arXiv' overshoot, Giovanni Piredda, 11/20/2021
- Re: working around arXiv' overshoot, Frank, 11/20/2021
- Re: working around arXiv' overshoot, Giovanni Piredda, 11/20/2021
- Re: working around arXiv' overshoot, Giovanni Piredda, 11/20/2021
- Re: working around arXiv' overshoot, Frank, 11/20/2021
- Re: working around arXiv' overshoot, Frank, 11/20/2021
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