[OS X TeX] pdfopen in MacTeX useful?

Joseph Wright joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Fri Aug 3 05:58:33 EDT 2012


On 03/08/2012 10:54, Simon Murphy wrote:
> I have, in the past, had issues uploading pdfs made with TeXShop to journal submission webpages.
> 
> From the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society file upload page:
> 	"Please do not use pdfTeX to create your PDF. We have found that PDFs created using pdfTex often fail. The latest version of pdfTeX is not currently supported by S1M."
> Where S1M is Scholar One Manuscripts. So it's perhaps their issue, but why should there be a difference if pdfTex outputs a totally standard pdf?
> 
> Simon.

I've also had issues with ScholarOne, although the PDFs themselves are
fine. My usual solution is to GhostScript the PDFs (i.e. PDF to PDF),
which seems to make ScholarOne happy.
--
Joseph Wright




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