Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.
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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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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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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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How do I simulate overprinting in Adobe Reader?
On both Mac and Windows when I print a document there is an advanced screen that allows me to select an option called Simulate Overprinting, however such an option doesn't appear on the Ubuntu ...
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Free pdf reader that supports taking notes (and bookmarks)
I learned about the PDF possibility of taking notes which are then stored with the document, usefull when reading ebooks. If the note taker also supports some math notation, that would be wonderful! ...
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How can I highlight PDFs?
Currently I need to highlight certain sections in PDFs. These highlights would need to be saved. What tools are out there to do this on Ubuntu?
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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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How can I extract a page range / a part of a PDF?
Do you have any idea how to extract a part of a PDF document and save it as PDF?
On OS X it is absolutely trivial by using Preview. I tried PDF editor and other programs but to no avail.
I would like ...
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PDF to word conversion software?
Is there any free software available on Ubuntu that can convert a pdf file to a .doc file?
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How can I uninstall adobe acroread?
I want to uninstall acroread that I downloaded from adobe's website and installed. How can I do that?
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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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1answer
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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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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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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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Is there a way to convert a PDF file to ePUB format WITHOUT using Calibre
I'll tell you clearly and loudly: I don't like Calibre!
So, how can I convert PDF to ePUB without it?
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More Print to file settings?
The settings in print to file option in Ubuntu is limiting and dangerous. All the applications apart from Mozilla print to a file ~/output.pdf, this is dangerous as you can overwrite a previous ...
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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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How to present a slideshow consisting of PDFs?
I need to present a slideshow on a projector. I know that if I use openoffice it can send a seperate image to the laptop screen and the projector.
If I have some other application (like a PDF viewer) ...
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How can I instruct Nautilus to pre-generate thumbnails?
I have a large library of PDF documents (papers, lectures, handouts) that I want to be able to quickly navigate through. For that I need thumbnails.
At the same time however, I see that the ...
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How to show all searched results in pdf in a glance?
In evince, when searching some text in a pdf file, the result will be displayed one by one by hitting "next" or "previous" button.
I wonder if it is possible to glance at once all found results with ...
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How to convert a .pdf file into a folder of images?
I have some .pdf files that I would like to convert to my preferred reading format of .cbr or .cbz or, if this isn't directly possible, I need to extract all pages from the .pdf as images and then ...
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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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Edit a .PDF file
I was wondering if there is a pdf reader-writer-publisher-editor that can add text, highlight, shapes and general edit an existing pdf document.
Something like Nitro in windows.
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How to Edit PDFs?
I typically have two needs:
Scenario A. Change a single PDF page.
In this case I have a PDF but not the original source file used to create the PDF. I don't want to try to recreate the document from ...
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1answer
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Enabling PDF preview in Dolphin
Hϵllo everyone. I have installed KDE on my Ubuntu 11.10 install. It's working nicely except for a couple of gripes with Dolphin file manager.
It seems much slower than other file browsers. Any ...
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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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Software to help filling out PDF that is not a form
I have one of those really annoying PDF's that has spaces that when printed create a form to fill out by hand, but the author has not actually made it a "PDF form".
I was wondering if there was any ...
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How can I annotate PDFs so notes are compatible with Adobe Reader for Win/OSX?
I am looking for a tool which allows me to annotate PDFs in Ubuntu and share the PDFs with annotations with people who use OSX or Windows. I cannot assume that the others can or will install special ...
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Is there software that can fill PDF forms?
I have some PDFs which are actually forms, with fields to fill. Is there some software that can fill those fields?
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Is there a better way to redact a PDF?
I had to print a couple of PDFs recently to send to someone, but I wanted to redact (black out) a couple small bits of text.
A quick google search didn't turn up any tools for this specific purpose, ...
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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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How can I batch decrypt a series of PDF files?
I have a bunch of PDF documents I know the password for and would like to decrypt them. How can I achieve this?
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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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Which programs can I use to edit PDF files?
I know that there is a very similar question, but I'm not interested in highlighting. What I'm looking for is some tool in Linux to edit pdf files. I've tried pdfedit which did the work for me, but if ...
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What is a good Foxit reader equivalent (or other PDF editor)?
On Windows, I have found Foxit Reader to be quite handy when I need to highlight texts in PDF document, make annotations, etc. etc. Unfortunately, I have not yet found product as user friendly (which ...
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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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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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converting images to pdf without quality loss
I am converting images to PDFs. I use following command
convert page.jpg page.pdf
and then combine multiple PDFs generated accordingly by command
pdftk 1.pdf 2.pdf output result.pdf
but I ...
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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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How to put a picture on an existing pdf file?
I have a scanned pdf file which is an application form, and a picture which is the scanned version of my signature (for example, this one) and can be in any image format such as eps or png. I would ...
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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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Is there a way to use Evince to view PDF attachments in Gmail
I'm back to using Gmail with Firefox and when I click on PDF attachments they are forced open by the Google docs viewer. I would much prefer that it used the default behavior I have set up for Firefox ...
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How to index a pdf document?
I am reading a PDF document in Ubuntu 11.04 using the default "Document Viewer". The document is more than 500 pages and it takes a while to complete a "Find ..." for a particular text. Is there a way ...
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How to reduce pdf filesize?
I have a 72.9MB pdf file that I need to shrink into under 500KB.
The file was a jpeg image that I had scanned, and then converted to pdf.
Can someone please offer any suggestions?
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How to Install Okular 0.15 on 12.04 LTS?
See here for reference: http://okular.kde.org/news.php
The new version includes an option to save annotations to the PDF file itself. That's why I am very eager to try out. Is there any PPA from ...
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Is it possible to tell Chromium to always “keep” PDFs?
I download a lot of PDFs in Chromium and always get a warning telling me that "files of this type can harm [my] computer", which forces me to manually confirm every download. I've enabled the "always ...
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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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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 ...
