This is a primitive script to convert my ACM submissions to ArXiv. For anybody else, it probably has to be modified.
The main tex file has to start with \RequirePackage{snapshot} before \documentclass and has to be fully compiled before running the prepare_arxiv.py script. The LaTex project should use the ACM-Reference-Format.
- latexpand
- Collapse input tex files into a single file
- Remove comments
- Collapse subsequent empty lines
- Replace documentclass and copyright
- Find and copy dependencies and image files
- Zip files for convenient upload