[Tex/LaTex] REVTEX 4.1 and PeerX-Press LaTeX workflow

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I am having trouble finding a practical workflow for REVTEX 4.1 documents to be uploaded using the AIP PeerX-press system.

The PeerX system only accepts images in EPS and TIFF format. My native figure formats are EPS,PNG and JPG. The problem is that neither pdfLaTeX nor LaTeX can is able to process TIFF files so once I do my final conversions to EPS and TIFF and update all of my includegraphics commands I can no longer render my own document locally.

It is a real pain to maintain two parallel TeX files during the peer review process. How do people usually overcome this?

I suppose I could also convert raster images to EPS. This would satisfy both, but I don't have a convenient way to get a reasonably sized compressed EPS with the correct dimensions for printing.

Best Answer

Ah yes beloved AIP PeerX-press system :) This is the Makefile for the last paper I submitted to them (it is already published).

SHELL = /bin/sh
.SUFFIXES : .tex .dvi .ps .pdf

FILE = amusjmp_submitted

PDFLATEX = /usr/local/bin/pdflatex
BIBTEX = /usr/local/bin/bibtex


PDF = ${FILE}.pdf



.tex.pdf :
        ${PDFLATEX} ${FILE}.tex
        ${BIBTEX} ${FILE}
        ${PDFLATEX} ${FILE}.tex
        ${PDFLATEX} ${FILE}.tex



bib :
        ${PDFLATEX} ${FILE}.tex
        ${BIBTEX} ${FILE}
pdf : bib
        ${PDFLATEX} ${FILE}.tex
        ${PDFLATEX} ${FILE}.tex



# Various cleaning options
clean-ps :
        /bin/rm -f  *.log *.aux *.dvi *.bbl *.blg *.bm *.toc *.out \
        *Notes.bib *.ps

Yes converting raster images to EPS is the way to go! GraphicsMagic or ImageMagic is your friend here. I have a very strong preference for GraphcisMagic over ImageMagice! No flame wars please! The reasons are of technical nature. Image resizing is trivial.