Prepare LaTeX for ManuscriptCentral Submission

This package helps flatten directories and update paths in a LaTeX project to prepare it for journal submission.

It does the following operations:

• it flattens paths and put all images / PDFs in the root directory
• it changes the paths in the tex file
• it crops image names to 64 characters to fit ManuscriptCentral requirements.

Installation

It is possible to install the package directly from PyPI:

pip install preparelatexforsubmission

of from this GitHub repository with:

pip install git+https://github.com/dros1986/preparelatexforsubmission.git

Instructions

1 - Download zip file from Overleaf

2 - Unzip it

3 - in terminal run:

prepare-latex-submission main.tex

Credits

Please, if you use this tool, take into consideration to cite one of my papers :)

This is my Scholar profile, thank you!