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Can names of defined LaTeX commands be retrieved from a compiled PDF?

Well it depends. It is possible to grab source code and to add to the PDF. As a proof of concept (this requires a current LaTeX): \DocumentMetadata{uncompress,testphase={phase-III,math}} \...
Ulrike Fischer's user avatar
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Document Printed an Extra 9,940 Pages

You have something similar to \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \def\par{\vskip0pt} x\vskip \end{document} which makes terminal output ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=...
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pdf plots/figures have weird artifacts

To clarify for the down-voter: a solution (answer) in this case can't be some Latex-code it has to be a root-cause analysis this one lays-out the road towards the handful of root causes, which ...
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3 votes

Can names of defined LaTeX commands be retrieved from a compiled PDF?

Basically, the process of creating the PDF is not compilation and there's no decompilation possible. PDF is a format to describe the output of your document, the actual letters and images you put on ...
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Can names of defined LaTeX commands be retrieved from a compiled PDF?

If this is really important to be sure is not a problem, you may want to post-process the PDF. My suggestion would be simply reprocessing it to create a new PDF: Use your favorite operating system ...
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pdf plots/figures have weird artifacts

Here are two compiles with classes article and standalone with the pdf from your dropbox: no box shown, compiling with pdflatex. Once again, you should post compilable code, not just snippets: now it ...
MS-SPO's user avatar
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2 votes
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SVG is not rendered if (obsolete?) AUX files are deleted beforehand

As already stated by @Ulrike you should not delete any generated aux file in order to get the final processed document after several runs. In fact, package svg uses the aux file itself to determine ...
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2 votes

Require a certain (or later) version of a package?

In newer LaTeX versions, \@ifpackagelater can also be \IfPackageAtLeastTF. Usage is identical.
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