La TeXtractor – Get your LaTeX zipped up!

Do you find yourself sometimes in need of a neat and clean zip archive with the essential artefacts of your LaTeX project? Maybe to submit it along with the camera-ready PDF of your paper?

The times when you manually cleaned out your project directory are over!

We present: La TeXtractor a tool that takes care of everything for you (no warranty!!)

Usage

Simply run textract -m paper.tex camera-ready.zip and you are done.

Really, that's almost it. Check out textract --help for the more advanced power-user features like

• include additional files (like a copyright form)
• get a directory with all files in the zip for extra reassurance

How it works

To be honest: It's not hard. LaTeX's -recorder option does the heavy lifting by listing all files that are accessed during a build run. La TeXtractor just takes all (non-global) build assets from that list and zips them up. To make sure that everything that is needed for a build is included, La TeXtractor test the build on a copy of the zip, and prints a reassuring success message if all goes right.