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Preparing an academic submission as a single PDF
By ConvertThoseFiles Team
Journals and conferences almost always want a single PDF. Building it manually is error-prone — a workflow fixes that.
The pipeline 1. [JPG to PDF](/jpg-to-pdf) for figures. 2. [Merge PDF](/merge-pdf) to combine manuscript + figures in order. 3. [Compress PDF](/compress-pdf) to clear the submission size cap.
The Academic submission workflow does this end to end.
Common pitfalls - Forgetting a figure — keep figure filenames numbered. - Re-compressing the manuscript when only figures need it. - Submitting before checking the merged result looks right.
See more academic workflows.