It needs to be intact, the pdf is rendered by the arxiv backend based on the sou...

semi-extrinsic · 2025-02-04T15:34:22 1738683262

You can upload only the PDF on ArXiv. Useful when you for some reason (e.g. client request) publish in certain engineering conferences that only allow Word submissions...

cozzyd · 2025-02-05T08:23:22 1738743802

if arxiv detects that it's a latex-generated PDF, it will reject it. Though it's probably possible to launder the latex-generated PDF through ghostscript or something to evade detection (I haven't tried...)