The submission procedure for an INRIA technical report was updated on June 26, 2008.
You must from now on submit it to HAL-INRIA.
Further information on HAL-INRIA Open Archive can be found here
Requests for assistance or questions should be addressed to rrrt@inria.fr or raps@sophia.inria.fr

In a nutshell, the new procedure is as follows :

• Go to http://rrrt.inria.fr/AttribNum, fill in the required fields and upload the report on .ps or .pdf format. The file is submitted to the team leader for approbation.
• You receive an e-mail containing the report ID
  1. Insert the ID in the report source file
  2. Rename the report source file to : RR-XXXX.fileextension
  3. Submit the report in LaTeX (preferred) or Ps format to HAL-INRIA.
  4. Submit to HAL in the "report" category
  5. Fill in the "Internal ref." field with the value RR-XXXX
• You receive a confirmation e-mail containing the report ID, as well as your team leader and the reports managing team

PDF format report : pdflatex

• To submit a better quality version of your report in PDF format, we recommend, once you know the report ID, to follow these few steps and upload this version to
  /net/servers/rapports/tmp
  
  - either pdflatex
  - or LaTeX then dvips -Ppdf then ps2pdf.

Thanks to Grégoire Malandain for his advice and the following screen caps :
(please note however the nature of research reports does not always give such good results) :

Rendering examples for PDF files depending on the method in use :
from top to bottom

1. LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf
2. LaTeX -> dvips -Ppdf -> ps2pdf
3. pdflatex