<h1>Why doesn't my paper have the arXiv id stamped on the side of the page?</h1> <p>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:</p> <blockquote><font size="+1" face="Times">arXiv:hep-lat/0105002v1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2 May 2001</font></blockquote> <p>This stamp may not appear for different reasons depending on whether the source format is <a href="#tex">TeX</a>, <a href="#pdf">PDF</a> or <a href="#ps">PostScript</a>.</p> <a name="tex"></a><h2>TeX (and latex etc.) submissions</h2> <ol> <li>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.</li> <li>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 <code>color</code> package and setting the <code>pagecolor</code> will erase the page (even if the color is white). To fix, simply comment out the <code>\pagecolor</code> command, e.g.: <pre> ... \usepackage{color} ... %\pagecolor{white} %comment this line ... </pre> </li> </ol> <a name="pdf"></a><h2>PDF submissions</h2> <ul> <li>We do not stamp PDF submissions because we have not developed the software necessary to do it.</li> </ul> <a name="ps"></a><h2>PostScript submissions</h2> <ul> <li>The PostScript may overwrite the stamp. You should check that the PostScript does not, for example, write a big white box to "clear" the page.</li> </ul> <a name="docx"></a><h2>DOCX submissions</h2> <ul> <li>As with PDF submissions, we have not developed the software necessary to do so.</li> </ul> <a name="html"></a><h2>HTML submissions</h2> <ul> <li>We do not stamp HTML files, as they are intended to be viewed within the web browser.</li> </ul>