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Why doesn't my paper have the arXiv id stamped on the side of the page?

Most of the articles in arXiv have the arXiv id added as a stamp on left hand side of the PDF and PostScript. The form of the stamp is:

arXiv:hep-lat/0105002v1   2 May 2001

This stamp may not appear for different reasons depending on whether the source format is TeX, PDF or PostScript.

TeX (and latex etc.) submissions

  1. The stamping may have been explicitly disabled. This facility is provided for journals using arXiv that wish the output to look as similar as possible to the journal version.
  2. There may be commands in the TeX source or an included macro package that write over the stamp making it invisible. This could be the result of a figure that goes to the edge of the page, or something that "clears the page". For example, using the color package and setting the pagecolor will erase the page (even if the color is white). To fix, simply comment out the \pagecolor command, e.g.:
    %\pagecolor{white} %comment this line

PDF submissions

PostScript submissions

DOCX submissions

HTML submissions