Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.
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HP Officejet J3680 all in one scan to pdf Ubuntu 12.10
I m running ubuntu 12.10 on my lenovo laptop and want to use the HP AIO J3680 scan to pdf facility on this OS. How can I do so?. Previously this HP AIO is working fine, with all its functions working ...
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Converting PDF doc to image as preserving the PDF quality at image?
I have looked to the site and find convert like programs and used them however I cannot preserve the quality of the PDF file. I have changes the options for better resolutions but this time the size ...
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how to print PDF with CMYK color profile?
I would like to print to PDF documents from LO Writer but with CMYK color profiles. How can I achieve this?
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Problems to save pdf files from Dropbox
I'm trying to download one list of scientific papers in pdf format from dropbox. But the download process stops at 100% (without conclude). The interesting point is that I can open my file directly on ...
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What are the packages and libraries needed to print a file into pdf?
Which packages and libraries are necessary to print a file into pdf file, especially a webpage, text file or an office document (spread sheet and word processor)? For instance, cups - is it necessary ...
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Create PDF from Inkscape SVG without destroying fonts and effects
I have an Inkscape SVG file with a few transparency effects and different layers that I want to export to a PDF file for distribution. When I use "Save as..." or "Save a copy..." and select the PDF ...
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Completely remove textual information from a .pdf file
I have an email that I have printed to .pdf file. I want to remove some of the text paragraphs from the email before sending the file to someone to read the remaining text. I took a screenshot of the ...
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How to fix anacron & cups-pdf when you have /var on tempfs
I have a ssd drive in my laptop and I followed various advice that said to put /var/log /var/spool & /var/cache on a tmpfs so that the constant read/writes wouldn't lessen the life of my ssd.
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How can we automatically merge PDF files? [duplicate]
when using FreePDF if I process multiple files it asks me to "Add to next pdf?" which appends them at the end of the last PDF name.
I want it to do this automatically without user intervention... is ...
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How do I turn off thumbnails for pdf files?
When I open org.gnome.desktop.thumbnailers using dconf-editor, I see this:
Schema: `org.gnome.desktop.thumbnailers`
Summary: List of mime-types for which external thumbnailer programs will ...
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How to import a pdf in libreoffice? under ubuntu, all pages are blank
I have some .pdf generated by a scanner, that I want to import in LibreOffice and do some small editing. The PDF has only one object per page, a page-size image.
If I open it in LibreOffice under ...
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Reducing PDF size to optimize its performance on Kindle?
Is there any tool on Ubuntu that I can use to reduce the physical size of the PDf in terms of it's dimensions so that the file can handle better on a Kindle?
GUI Method please.
Note: PDF has images ...
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Which application can I use to edit PDF? [duplicate]
I've a document PDF format. Which application can I use to edit this document?
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What PDF viewers are there available for Ubuntu (version 12.04 and later)? [duplicate]
Also what are the pros and cons of each of these PDF viewers? If installation involves more than just sudo apt-get install software-name then please also clearly show how you would install said ...
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PDF smart file diff
I have a LibreOffice document that I converted to PDF at some point in time using the built-in capabilities. The timestamp on the PDF is later than on the word processing document, so that makes ...
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Where is the ubuntu magazine pdf located on the DVD?
Where is the ubuntu magazine pdf located on the DVD that is distributed with the magazine??
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Command line tool to correct whitebalance of scanned PDFs
I have several hundreds of scanned files as PDFs. The scanner I used at the time creates images that have a blue-grey touch, so the white background of the pages is blue/grey instead of white. While ...
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Error when running script ('compress-pdf') in Thunar custom actions
I want to add the script 'compress-pdf' to Thunar custom actions.
The script is the one posted in this answer, made to resize pdfs. It is based on zenity.
It was made for Nautilus, but, as stated ...
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GUI program to resize pdf documents and change their DPI
I see that LibreOffice Draw should be able to open a pdf and export it with options for changing quality and DPI resolution. But the high-resolution scanned pdfs that I have are not properly opened in ...
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printing from firefox to pdf without margins
When I use Firefox 19.0.2 "File -> Print to Pdf" tool, I get a PDF with large margins, and some of the text is cut on the way.
I've tried the advice here: ...
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how to determine dpi size of a pdf & djvu
As the title says how would I determine the dpi of a pdf or a djvu document?
I am looking for a proper linux solution as opposed to running adobe acrobat professional under wine.
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I'm using cups-pdf and it will not print a mirrored pdf
I know you can print directly from Libre Writer to PDF, but I need to print the document mirrored. I installed cups-pdf and it works as it should, except for the mirror option. All it creates is a ...
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blurry images with mogrify & convert
Does anyone know why this image is so blurry?
I did a convert from pdf to png and it turned out like that. Before deleting imagemagick and it's entire toolset from software-center most of my image ...
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pdfbeads will only output a single page
Following the instructions from this page
I take a djvu document, check it for any sign of corruption by opening it in djvulibre and it checks out fine. Copy it to my testing folder and rename it
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How to convert pdf to chm files?
Hi I'm a new Ubuntu user.
I'm looking for some good tools in the Ubuntu platform which does convert the pdf to chm files. I googled a lot. But I almost finding the tools for other way around (i.e chm ...
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converting djvu to pdf trouble with this OCR preserving code
I want to convert djvu to pdf while preserving OCR. This page describes how to do so, I am getting a blank html file.
now in the directory cd /home/steven/Documents/djvu2pdf/1/
djvu2hocr -p 1 ...
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Printing works from Writer but not Evince/Okular etc. (Filter error)
i recently got a used printer (HP LaserJet 2200dn) that i try to use with Ubuntu 12.10. The thing is, that whatever i try, i cannot print pdf's (neither with Evince nor Okular). Printing from ...
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How do I produce a multi-page sandwich pdf with hocr2pdf?
I used tesseract to produce the special html to use with hocr2pdf starting from a muti-page tif.
I tried using hoc2pdf to produce a "sandwich pdf" (image + hidden text layer).
Hocr2pdf produces a ...
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How can I open a interactive PDF (created with Mingmanager software) in Ubuntu?
I'm following a on-line course about intellectual property. The professor uses interactive maps or schemes where the themes are displayed. Beside every theme is a plus sign wich opens new content when ...
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How to convert Powerpoint ppsx (presentation) to pdf?
I have a ppsx file with images that I want usable in other environments than office suites: it would be perfect having them as separate images. I could then use them directly; or create a pdf from ...
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How to crop a multi-page (image/scanned) pdf file (which won't crop with pdfcrop)?
Usually, I'm pretty happy using pdfcrop, even though the cropped output usually consumes significantly more disk space. Note that comparable code does exist, which addresses and resolves this issue. ...
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cannot print pdf pages with images
When I try to print a PDF file that contains images, the printing stops just before the first page that contains an image. If the first page contains an image, only a single blank page is printed.
I ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 last week update broke PDF printing
Last week there was an update to PDF printing libraries. PDF printing used to work perfectly and would generate perfectly clear images and generated pdf files that were around 15KB.
Now the same ...
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Is there an Airprint Installation Guide?
I'm trying to follow a guide for how to install the airprint function. And I've read that when iOS6 was released they changed from PDF into URF.
I have found a guid how to install airprint and fix ...
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How do I convert a scanned PDF into a PDF with text
I have scanned about 80 pages into gray scale pdf (image format).
The end size of the file is about 70MB, which is very huge.
Now I am looking for a method to convert the grayscale image-based PDF ...
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PDF file renaming according to metadata?
Is there something I can use that renames PDF files according to their content? Basically an equivalent of http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=27620 in Ubuntu.
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Document Viewer in 12.10 64 bit Overwriting Numbers When printing
When I use the document viewer to view checks that are created in my accounting program, Nolapro, as pdf documents the check appears correct. However, when I print it the $ symbol overwrites the left ...
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How to get 12.10 fix for PDF Printing Problem (where some pages print blank) in 12.04?
As documented on Launchpad, there is a bug for Ubuntu 12.04 somewhere in the PDF printing stack. This bug causes some or all pages of the PDF to print blank. Since this issue doesn't occur in Ubuntu ...
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PDF reader with all search results for ubuntu
In Windows' Acrobat reader, I can do an advanced search for some phrase, and a left pane displays all search results, which I can click on. Is there any similar program for Ubuntu?
I'm using Ubuntu ...
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How do I open a pdf file in a virtual console?
I want to open pdf files from within the virtual console and view them in the console itself. Are there any applications that allow that ?
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How to text to speech (pdf, docx) documents in lubuntu 12.10
Hello I want text to speech application that works with PDF and other files. Is there any application that does this is Lubuntu? Is there any way to get this done?
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Is there a tool that can add a password to a PDF file?
I've found lots of info on decrypting PDF files, but none on encrypting them. What tool can do this for me?
Edit: There are two good answers below, but in my specific case the PDF was a scan, not a ...
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How can I use Firefox's built in PDF viewer?
I downloaded firefox 19 and executed it on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine. I went to a website with pdf links, clicked on one of them, hoping to have it shown in the built-in pdf viewer in Firefox 19, but ...
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convert several png to one pdf
I have 280 pgn files that I want to merge and convert into one pdf.
PNG files names are in the sequence p000.png, p001.png etc and total space is about 30mb.
I did:
convert p00*.png to myfile.pdf
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How can I get PDF viewer to display text?
When I open a PDF file, it doesn't display text. Graphics show up.
How do I get the PDF viewer to display text?
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How do I convert CHM files to pdf?
Here's a list of things I've tried:
Calibre from which I received a file containing the table of contents of the chm file with each title hyperlinked to nowhere (i.e. they're highlighted in blue and ...
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Printer prints square of 2 copies
I have a very strange problem:
When I print a single page under Ubuntu 12.04 with any application
and I choose 3 copies I get 9 pages; 3 square 2 = 9
Checked all possible settings, nothing.
Any ...
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How to install Adobe Reader X in Ubuntu?
I want to install Adobe Reader X (10 or 11) in my system. But there is no native application available for Linux. After doing Google I have seen that Adobe Reader 10.1.14 is given gold rating with ...
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Unable to print PDF correctly
When I try to print a PDF, it prints, but the first page has weird symbols replacing some of the letters (notice that the symbols look similar to the letters that should be there):
The second page ...
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How to update libpoppler?
Poppler 0.20.4 isn't able to render specific pdf files the right way. How can I upgrade libpoppler to the newest version?
I use Xubuntu 12.10 and tried to open the pdf with evince zathura an so on .
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