Fledge

Fledge turns a LaTeX project into a verified submission ZIP. It copies only the files your paper needs, rebuilds the PDF from that exact ZIP in a sandbox, checks that it matches your original, and reports problems such as missing files, undefined citations and leftover TODOs. Your project is never edited.

Install

On macOS, run the installer from this checkout or an extracted source distribution. It asks before installing anything and sets up TeX and Poppler too:

bash install.sh

Elsewhere, or if TeX and Poppler are already installed:

pipx install fledge-latex   # or: uv tool install fledge-latex

Install fledge-latex, not fledge: the PyPI package named fledge is an unrelated project. The command is still fledge. Builds need TeX and Poppler; see the installation guide for Linux, Windows (WSL 2) and manual setup.

Prepare your paper

fledge prepare /path/to/paper --main main.tex --output /path/to/submission

Read the documentation, starting with the quick start.

License

Fledge is released under the MIT License.