Questions tagged [pdf]
Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.
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Why does Ubuntu not ship with a way to fill in PDF forms?
Why does Ubuntu not ship with a way to fill in PDF forms? I am not asking how to fill the forms. I am asking why there is not a way to do this in the default installation. It's basically the only ...
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A strange feature in Ubuntu document viewer
While browsing through a tutorial lecture pdf using the default Document Viewer in Ubuntu, I noticed a strange feature. When I select the text, below it there is some overlapping text (totally ...
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How to take a photo from webcam when someone attempt to open a password protected PDF?
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and want to add a security feature to my system. From this question, I came to know how to take picture when an incorrect password entered in login screen, using the following ...
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Splitting all files in a folder with pdftk
I'm trying to use pdftk to split a folder containing pdf files into their constituent pages. Here is my code:
~/MCO/MCOs$ for file in *.pdf; do pdftk "$file" burst; done
The command itself does not ...
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lpr command is not printing A5 correctly
I am currently trying to print a PDF via lpr command. The issue is I am able to print, but half the data is missing.
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Chrome downloads the PDF into Downloads directory. I have a shell script ...
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Scribus: PDF document seems different than in Ubuntu Document Viewer
I've opened a PDF file with Scribus but it seems quite different then it seems in the Ubuntu Document Viewer.
Should I export the file to some other format if I want to edit the files content ...
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files duplicated for no reason reappear after deleting?
I use Lubuntu 16.04.1
after successfully copying the content (pdf files) of one folder to a new one (both on my external hard drive), I observed that most of the files duplicated in the original ...
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Error running Master PDF Editor 4 - missing libQtSvg.so.4
After downloading Master PDF Editor 4 for Linux from the https://code-industry.net website (as a tar.gz) and unarchiving it into /opt, it gives an error when attempting to run it:
./masterpdfeditor4: ...
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How to print a PDF on both sides?
I want to print a PDF on both sides. But, as you see in the following Page SetUp tab, the Two-sided is said to be Not available. How can this be possible?
My Printer Settings:
Printer Model : FUJI ...
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Adding a logo in a pdf by Ghostscript
I am trying to add a logo in a pdf by Ghostscript. Currently, I am adding a text with the use of this Postscript .ps file:
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/EndPage
{
2 eq { pop false }
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Evince pdf's, odd pages right at top, only in double sided
The odd pages only are shifted right to the top, and have no margin at all, so that the first line starts right under the top edge. Even pages are properly centred and have a proper top margin.
Any ...
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On Xenial, certain websites have a link to a pdf, but doesn't display the pdf
Using Xenial with Chrome v55, some websites have a link to a webpage displaying a pdf file. However, the pdf file only displays as blank. Firefox works OK however. As an example, the URL of the pdf ...
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Close specific pdf open in Document Viewer
I have opened abc.pdf in Document Viewer 3.18.2.
I am writing bash script to close the specific document opened in Document Viewer.
Any idea ?
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Libre Office calculator characters
I'm translating a user manual(this) of Digital Scales. I need to write certain words as they appear on the digital screen of the scale. In the official pdf they have managed somehow (check characters ...
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Calling document viewer from an html viewer
I have this call to webapp-container in this .desktop file.
$ cat .local/share/applications/foo.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=web container
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/bin/webapp-container ...
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Program to generate batch PDFs or JPEGs?
I have a spreadsheet and I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that would batch generate simple PDFs or JPEGs from the records in it a la mail merge? That is, I have a record that contains Title,...
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Change font style in pdf (evince)
Is it possible to change the font style in Evince pdf viewer as we do in gedit and LibreOffice writer?
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Is it possible to open a pdf that requires Adobe Reader 8 without using acroread?
I have a PDF file (first link here) that when opened says:
The document you are trying to load requires Adobe Reader 8 or higher. You may not have the
Adobe Reader installed or your viewing ...
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Putting 'Contents' link on pdf?
I have several pdf's consisting of handwritten notes which I typically use 'Okular' to view. Since they are handwritten they have no formatting and therefore no 'Contents' menu (as seen on Okular). ...
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default pdf-reader changed from Evince to Gimp
I am running 14.04 with all recent updates, recently my default pdf-reader unexpectedly changed from Evince to Gimp. My /usr/share/applications/defaults.list points to /etc/gnome/defaults.list which ...
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Numerous issues with embedded objects in LibreOffice after upgrading to 16.04
I've been using LibreOffice for years at my job to make slides and handouts. A few months back I upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 16.04 and suddenly started encountering a number of issues that ...
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Splitting large pdf based on page range?
Let us say I have a large pdf called input.pdf and take the page ranges 1-4 5-9 10-13 14-end (say) and put them into individual pdfs called output1.pdf, output2.pdf ... What is the best (and quickest) ...
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Laser-like pointer for PDF Viewer
I have some slides in PDF format. I need to show them through Skype (screen sharing). Is there any PDF viewer in Ubuntu that provides the possibility to have some kind of laser-like pointer to show/...
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Printing PDF bytes directly to printer
I am working on .NET core framework. I want to do printing on Ubuntu.
The current approach I am using is creating a PDF, saving it on my machine, and then printing this PDF using the lpr command.
Now ...
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In Evince, don't see the option to add an annotation [duplicate]
I'm trying to follow the instructions on https://help.gnome.org/users/evince/stable/annotations.html.en to add annotations to a PDF document in Evince. However, I don't see separate "List" and "Add" ...
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App for deleting PDF metadata?
I was using the excellent app MAT (Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit) to delete PDF metadata but recently MAT stopped working for some reason and whenever I try to use it on .pdf files it reports:
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Convert PDF to images to PDF
I have a PDF that I want to show to someone without giving them the ability to copy it. One possible way would be to convert pages to images, then these back into a PDF. How can I use convert or pdftk ...
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Issue with PDFMod since upgrading to 16.04
For years I had been using PDFMod to easily move, rotate, delete, and add pages to a PDF. I always thought it was a very useful little package.
Unfortunately, since I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 some ...
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inserting few copies of the same page into PDF
I want to insert X blank pages into PDF document.
I can do it with pdftk :
pdftk A=book.pdf B=page.pdf cat A1-end B output output.pdf
When I want insert more than one page, I can do something like ...
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Program to make text annotations in PDF files that are always visible?
I'm looking for a program with which I can annotate PDF files with text such that this text is always directly visible.
Okular works fine for underlining, highlighting, etc. But when using Okular to ...
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Why does Atril, the evince substitue from Mate, change the pdf position by mouse movement and how to stop it?
If I move the mouse curser to the top left or the top of Atril, the document position scrolls up. Also sidewards movements are possible.
I observed this behaviour for a while (even before Ubuntu 16....
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pdf files are opened by image magick
pdf files are opened by imagemagick. if I uninstall imagemagick then the printer canon mf4350 starts malfunctioning
i am using ubuntu 16.04
please help
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How to embed all fonts in pdf generated from pdflatex
I am using pdflatex in Ubuntu to generate pdf files. While, it didn't pass the check due to missing of fonts. The online suggestions includes:
pdf-ps-pdf:
thois one can ruin the original file. The ...
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Document viewer doesn't have add annotation enable for pdf
I have a vmware setup with Xubuntu and I have found myself not going back to OSX. Now I'm trying to learn a bit more about the ecosystem and how to set things that accommodate my needs.
In my working ...
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Lightweight browser with pdf/docx plugin
Im running xubuntu on a 'designed for xp' netbook (my friend corrupted system32) and looking for a web browser that will run smoothly [2gb ram, intel atom] and open pdf/docx files in the browser, this ...
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Nautilus script to decrypt
I wrote this script to decrypt pdfs, in order to make them editable.
I want to decrypt them in their own folder, substituting the original ones.
directory=$(dirname "$...
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Can I enlarge a PDF?
I am a music director, and a person in my choir is vision impaired.
One of the pieces I've ordered came in PDF form. I would like to be able to enlarge the pdf printout. It will be printed on the ...
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Append to PDF file with convert in bash
I'm basically downloading some images from a website using wget to then append them into a PDF file using the command line program "convert". But this last thing seems not to work.
I'm getting all ...
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How to remove the password from a PDF?
I have a password protected PDF file. I know the password but in order to share the file, I have to remove the password from the PDF and share an unprotected copy. How can I do this in Ubuntu with or ...
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GNU Info like pdf reader
Is there a PDF reader in the Ubuntu repository (or elsewhere) which can navigate through sections of an e-book like “GNU Info” does through nodes?
It should support shortcuts which info has, like N, ...
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How to add annotations to a scanned PDF using Evince?
I'm trying to add annotations/highlights to a PDF using the Document Viewer (Evince) in Ubuntu 16.04. When I add a text annotation, the annotation box comes up for me to type in but when I close it ...
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PDF slide viewer "soft of"
I am looking for a PDF viewer preferably in Ubuntu (but would settle for Windows if one was available) This PDF viewer should act like a microfiche viewer...what I mean is I shouldn't have to click ...
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Cannot Install Okular after Ubuntu 14.04 upgrades to 16.04
I have been trying to install Okular and Kile after my OS upgrades itself from 14.04 to 16.04. However, I get the following error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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Error showing url: Error when getting information for file when gnome-open
For some reason I can't open this pdf file with gnome-open command.
cd /media/c-drive/Users/Tommy/Desktop/JobEssays/
gnome-open "./My\ Resume.pdf"
I get this error.
Error showing url: Error when ...
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Scan software for ubuntu with built-in (GhostScript) compression
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I use XSane scanning software to scan documents. I like how it works. Only downside is that the resulting files are large. E.g. an A4-size full-color scan at 300 DPI is a ~10 MB pdf-file.
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Ubuntu pdftoppm converting pdf to png
In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, I use pdftoppm to convert pdf files to png files one by one like the code given below:
pdftoppm -rx 300 -ry 300 -png XYZ.pdf XYZ
However, I have to convert many pdf files to png ...
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Can I make a PDF to expire after a specific date
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I want to know some extra security tips in dealing with PDF files. I found that we can easily make a PDF file password protected using pdftk command from here.
But is it ...
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Foxit reader does not work on my user specifically
I have been using Foxit PDF reader with no problems till I tried to run it now then it failed. I don't know what is going on !
I tried to run it using the terminal, it gives me this error
terminate ...
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Changing custom paper size from 0x0in?
I am trying to print a 5.7x11.2in pdf document in Okular. When I go into print I get the option to chose a size of paper at the bottom of which is the option 'custom'. However, when I click on this it ...
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pdftotxt page number selector
How can I convert a pdf file pages to txt file seperately.
My example code;
pdftotext test.pdf x.txt
My php example code;
for($i=1; $i<4; $i++){
if(shell_exec("pdftotext -f $i test.pdf ...
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