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Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

PDF failed to compile for issue #1323 with the following error:

Can't find any papers to compile :-(

@sambitdash - 👋 thanks for your submission to JOSS. From a quick inspection of this submission it's not entirely obvious that it meets our submission criteria. In particular, this item:

• Your software should have an obvious research application

Could you confirm here that there is a research application for this software (and explain what that application is)? The section 'what should my paper contain' has some guidance for the sort of content we're looking to be present in the paper.md.

Many thanks!

From the said site I gather JOSS is interested in the following areas:

JOSS publishes articles about research software. This definition includes software that: solves complex modeling problems in a scientific context (physics, mathematics, biology, medicine, social science, neuroscience, engineering); supports the functioning of research instruments or the execution of research experiments; extracts knowledge from large data sets; offers a mathematical library, or similar.

There is no in-built native tool in Julia to read PDF files and extract text from documents. This tool enables you to achieve that. I guess from that perspective, it fits into the area of interest JOSS has defined for itself. Implementation of PDF Library from scratch is a fairly non-trivial task which has been achieved in this exercise using a new programming language.

@arfon Sorry I may have misunderstood. Are you suggesting, I provide a detailed description as paper.md template? Should I check it in the PDFIO.jl repositiory?

@arfon Sorry I may have misunderstood. Are you suggesting, I provide a detailed description as paper.md template? Should I check it in the PDFIO.jl repositiory?

Yes please. Please review the submission guidelines here: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submitting.html#submitting-a-paper-to-joss

I'm going to mark this as paused until we hear back from @sambitdash

@danielskatz Thanks for the update. I will take a few more days to complete the paper submission.

👋 @sambitdash - any news? We could just remove this paper for now, and let you resubmit when you are ready... Or if you are close to having a paper written and in your repo, and want to proceed soon, let us know.

@danielskatz Sorry for the delay on my part. I will be able to submit the paper by the end of this week. If that's not too late will request to keep this request active for now.