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What is the difference between build/main.pdf and build/fachschaft_print.pdf? #21
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The paragraph mentioned on #15 does not exist on the current website any more. I have asked a friend at the student council if this is still necessary ^^ |
It is still nice to remove the extra pages, but it is still a hack and should probably be removed if it is no longer necessary. |
Mpic has asked us to leave this as an option as a backup. While they do have an option in their custom build printing software to remove this, they have not found a way of automating this. MPIC has looked into automating this process, but for the time being have not found a good solution that works with all the weirdnesses of PDF (did you know that PDF are apparently turning complete because of PostScript?) |
Idk if we should document this if this is only a backup process.. |
I knew PDFs were f-ed up, but I did not expect this... My assumption is that most tools will not use the PDF's Turing complete features, but with how cursed LaTeX itself is I would not be surprised.
I would err on the side of more documentation, a simple comment pointing to this issue should be enough: # Fix PDF for printing when using the twoside mode
# (see https://github.com/TUM-Dev/tum-thesis-latex/issues/21)
.PHONY: _fachschaft-print
_fachschaft-print:
... I can probably make a PR with that exact comment. |
Yes, but said comment makes this appear to be a generally superior option (its not, its just different).
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From what I can tell, it tries to fix some issue with the
twoside
configuration of the thesis, but it is not documented in the README or the Makefile.tum-thesis-latex/Makefile
Lines 12 to 28 in c98745b
My guess is that line 23 removes pages 1 and 3 because they are blank?
If it is not using the
twoside
mode, then it just copiesmain.pdf
tofachschaft_print.pdf
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