Yes, arXiv generally doesn't accept PDF's, preferring instead the tex source (which is amusing when people don't realize their comments show up. It uses somethi

Yes, arXiv generally doesn't accept PDF's, preferring instead the tex source (which is amusing when people don't realize their comments show up. It uses something called autotex which has a few quirks (e.g. all images have to be in the same dir, etc.). Here is the makefile I use that also generates a .tar.gz for the arxiv (obviously won't help with Overleaf without cloning first, but) FIGURES=$(wildcard figs/*) TEXFILES=main.tex included.tex included2.tex ... main.pdf: $(TEXFILES) $(FIGURES) main.bib latexmk -pdf -g $< .PHONY: clean show clean: latexmk -C rm -rf forarxiv* forarxiv.tar.gz: forarxiv/main.tex forarxiv.pdf rm -f forarxiv.tar.gz cd forarxiv && tar --exclude=*.bib -cvzf ../forarxiv.tar.gz * forarxiv: mkdir -p $@ forarxiv/main.tex: main.tex main.bib | forarxiv latexpand --empty-comments $< | sed -e 's#figs/##g' > $@ forarxiv/main.bib: main.bib cp $< $@ forarxiv.pdf: forarxiv/main.tex $(FIGURES) forarxiv/main.bib ln -f $(FIGURES) forarxiv/ ln -f foo.sty forarxiv/ ln -f foo.bst forarxiv/ latexmk -cd -pdf forarxiv/main.tex latexmk -cd -c forarxiv/main.tex mv forarxiv/main.pdf $@ show: main.pdf xdg-open main.pdf