Whenever a researcher submits his paper to a journal website he/she does so by uploading a latex file plus some figures in the format of eps, and after clicking on the submit button the files are converted to one pdf file. Does anyone know how they do that?
Is there a .js file that does that and is pdf.js capable of doing this?
i imagine it's done server-side (after the files have been transmitted to the server) using typical latex-to-pdf workflow tools (e.g., the pdflatex command or similar). i imagine it's theoretically possible to write a javascript library to do it client-side in the browser though i haven't come across anything like that.
Edit: cool! as posted in Jaromanda X's comment above, there is in fact a JavaScript library for this. shows what i know. :p