Banal Ba • nal (adj.): lacking originality, freshness, or novelty

Banal is a format checker for PDF documents. It deduces the format specification of a document (font size, margins, etc.) and, optionally, compares the document formatting it discovers against a set of rules and reports any violations (see the full command line options). It is useful as part of a conference management system, and is used in both HotCRP and EDAS.   (Max 15 MB)                 Text output (fast)                 Image output (pretty, but slow...) (Example output) (Example output) Privacy Note: Documents submitted to this page are kept confidential. They are not stored or revealed to anyone, including the operator of this site. A (very) brief paper describing the motivation and operation of banal appeared in the WOWCS'08 workshop. You can also download banal for your own use. Authors: Is a conference submission system complaining about the formatting of your paper? Check the following: Using a LaTeX style file provided by the conference? Using Word and the system complains about the leading? None of the above? You can contact me. voelker@cs.ucsd.edu