that sounds like actual typesetting work! i’m very surprised that you don’t get access to the source. usually when uploading to a journal they want the latex source.
I’m not uploading to a journal. I upload stuff e.g. to Internet Archive. When I download stuff from various databases (journals, academic repositories, Google Books), it ranges from recent publications to stuff from several centuries ago, in which case a scan is all you can get.
so in that case i’m guessing it’s mostly just pdfs as containers for a series of images. that’s frustrating. there should really be a better format for that kind of thing. cbz is the simplest i can think of but that doesn’t really allow the same amount of metadata.
that sounds like actual typesetting work! i’m very surprised that you don’t get access to the source. usually when uploading to a journal they want the latex source.
I’m not uploading to a journal. I upload stuff e.g. to Internet Archive. When I download stuff from various databases (journals, academic repositories, Google Books), it ranges from recent publications to stuff from several centuries ago, in which case a scan is all you can get.
so in that case i’m guessing it’s mostly just pdfs as containers for a series of images. that’s frustrating. there should really be a better format for that kind of thing. cbz is the simplest i can think of but that doesn’t really allow the same amount of metadata.