Questions tagged [pdf]
Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.
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Document viewer locks scrolling at bottoms of pages
I use the down arrow key to scroll through PDF documents in document viewer.
However, when I reach the end of the page it does not scroll to the next page, and stays on the current page. Video: https:/...
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How to open PDF files on Telegram with my preferred application in Kubuntu?
Whenever I open a PDF document in Telegram, it opens in Xournal++. But I want it to open with Okular, which I have set as the default PDF reader.
PDF documents in Dolphin do open with Okular. How to ...
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Nautilus in Ubuntu 16.04 can't show pdf thumbnail
I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 on two machines. One can show pdf thumbnail, another can't. I tried to install and reinstall evince, but still, it is not shown.
Anyone knows what am I missing?
Here is ...
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Convert odt file to pdf from the command line using unoconv
I've come across unoconv which should do the job but I get the following error:-
unoconv -f pdf /home/bill/GWL-letter.odt
unoconv: RuntimeException during import phase:
Office probably died. ...
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Error saving to PDF from Jupyter Notebook
When I try to save my Jupyter Notebook as PDF, I get an "500 : Internal Server Error". Any ideas on how to fix that?
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Adobe Reader -- exists on Android, but not in Linux? [closed]
Adobe discontinued their PDF reader software for Linux several years ago (but continues to maintain the version for Android?!). If I need to fill in a "fillable" PDF form now, I have to load it onto ...
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Cross-Platform PDF reader and editor?
I constantly switch between Windows and Ubuntu and I usually add comments and/or bookmarks in my PDF documents. Now I'm using Adobe PDF and Okular, but the bookmarks, comments and highlighting are not ...
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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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Evince is not able to run (says missing shared libraries)
I've already looked this other answer but that didn't resolve my issue. I'm on Xubuntu 16.04 and today when I started evince, I got this error:
evince: error while loading shared libraries: ...
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PDFTK, CODE128 and UTF-8
I'm used to fill PDF forms from PHP using PDFTK. Recently, I was asked to insert a code-128 barcode in a PDF. To do so, I created a PDF with several text fields for human-readable entries plus a ...
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'Document Viewer' app won't download to M10 tablet
I started up my new Aquaris M10 tablet today. Managed to download a couple of apps successfully from the Ubuntu Store. However, when I downloaded
'Document Viewer', it failed at the end - - 4 times! ...
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How to exclude mask images while extracting images from PDF?
I have been using pdfimages to extract images from PDFs. It extracts all of following types of images
image - an opaque image
mask - a monochrome mask image
smask - a soft-mask image
stencil - a ...
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How to instruct wkhtmltopdf choose high resolution image files in html
I try to convert a webpage into pdf.
wkhtmltopdf http://orion.lcg.ufrj.br/Dr.Dobbs/books/book9/mf1201.htm my.pdf
The problem is that the created pdf has very small images, where the image files are ...
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PDF viewer that lists open documents [duplicate]
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a document viewer that has a menu of some kind that shows all my open documents. I typically have anywhere between 5 and 20 PDFs open when I'm doing research, and ...
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What is the name of the default, preinstalled, PDF viewer on Ubuntu?
I've been looking for the name of the Ubuntu's PDF reader preinstalled app.
I just wanna a great PDF reader that support complementary mode for windows.
Thank you!
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problem with RMarkdown on ubuntu 14.04
I am new to RStudio and RMarkdown. When I've tried to knit my first pdf document in Rstudio, I got the following message:
processing file: Preview-4cef6f7763df.Rmd
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Okular crashes Ubuntu 14.04
I recently installed okular using the ubuntu software center, but I haven been able to use it yet, once i run the program and I choose open document it crashes.
This appears to me in the command line ...
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generic-CUPS-PDF-printer - Ubuntu 14.04
Printing any document to a PDF works nicely. Unfortunately I want the created PDF file to be saved at a different location.
The current default location is: /home/PDF
The desired one location is: /...
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Help with Canon CanoScan LiDE scanned PDF Documents
I have just started working with Ubuntu for the last 10 days, with the intention to stop using Windows permanently. So far it has been awesome. I have replaced almost all my Microsoft applications ...
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Call GIMP via the command line to flatten and export a pdf image? [duplicate]
I've got a pdf figure with millions of semi-transparent points that I made in R. I want to flatten it to reduce filesize and then export it back out as a PDF (as a vector still, not a bitmap).
If ...
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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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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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PDFtk Password Protection Help
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and am looking for a solution to password protect a bunch of pdf files in a directory in batch. I came across PDFtk and it looks like it might do what I need, but I've reviewed ...
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Installing acroread without browser plugin
The acroread packages includes both the standalone viewer and the browser plugin. I need acroread for some annoying javascript-laced pdfs, but as an everyday viewer I prefer evince. Does anyone know ...
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No PDF preview in KBibTex
I'm using KBibTex (the KDE4 version) to manage my references for some thesis work. It is not in the repos for Ubuntu 11.10, but I installed it without problems using the v. 0.4-beta1 deb from Debian's ...
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pdftohtml outputting low resolution background images. help?
runnning:
pdftohtml -c document.pdf output.htm
this returns the normal output but the background images are of such low quality
they cannot be read.
Is this a bug with pdftohtml or can I change a ...
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How to get rid of FoxfitReader Document classification?
I installed Foxfit Document Viewer as I was trying it as an open source replacement for acrobat. I didn't really liked it so i got rid entirely of it. But there is a problem. Now any PDF file is ...
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Cannot use JavaScript inside PDF with Firefox
I am having troubles using JavaScript in a PDF file opened with Firefox.
To sum up, it is a file that uses XFA forms and JavaScript to validate the form and generate a QrCode. Here is the link to the ...
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How to recursively convert all JPGs into one PDF in each folder using img2pdf?
I have three levels of folders like main, sub-1 and sub-2. my main folder has lot of sub-1 folders and sub-1 has lot of sub-2 folder with JPG images inside.
I copy JPG files from sub-2 to its parent ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 only prints partial pdf's sometimes
Does anyone have a fix for this problem?
Try to print a pdf (multiple printers tried from two different computers - Xerox, Brother & HP, multiple documents)
Parts of printed page are blank
I ...
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Chromium opens PDFs with Gimp, rather than the system default
This is a really weird issue: whenever I download and open a PDF in Chromium, it will always open it with Gimp, while my system default PDF viewer is evince (aka Document Viewer). I don't know why ...
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How can I print a highlighted pdf document on Document Viewer?
I've been using Document Viewer to highlight some important parts of my pdf documents, and I want it to stay highlighted. How can I keep my highlights visible on the documents when I go and print them?...
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Chrome or Firefox render pdf's much better than Evince's
Chrome or Firefox render pdf's much better than Evince's (ubuntu's default pdf viewer).
For example
Chrome:
Evince:
Both pictures are taken at same zoom and even if perhaps you might not notice ...
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Print a web page to PDF and retain links
I'm in 18.04 and trying to print a web page to PDF, which works fine if I choose "Print to file" from the print menu. The catch is that there doesn't seem to be a way to preserve the links ...
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Is there a tool to split a scanned PDF when reaching a separator page?
In our office, we have to scan a bunch of incoming documents every day. We do have a scanner with an automatic feeder which will save each scanned document to some fileshare on our network. Yet ...
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Print filled PDF form with lpr
I'm having trouble printing a filled PDF form using lpr. Each time I print using lpr, the unfilled original form is printed. Does anyone know how to print the filled content from command line?
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Document Viewer (evince) not opening from terminal
I am running Ubuntu 18.04
Whenever I try to open evince from the command line:
> evince something.pdf
I get this error (even without a pdf file):
evince: error while loading shared libraries: ...
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How to recursively and automatically convert all TIFs to an aggregated PDF per directory?
I'm attempting to use GraphicsMagick in Ubuntu to convert hundreds of directories that contain multiple TIF files into one multi-page PDF file per directory. The folder depth is consistent with this ...
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evince document viewer not showing wireless printer
For some reason Evince document viewer is not showing me my wireless printer. Libreoffice and other applications show my printer and prints fine.I'm using Ubuntu 18.10.
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Polish characters in a pdf file not rendered correcly in evince
I've received a pdf invoice document containing Polish characters and I cannot render it properly using evince. The problem is related to the font settings. pdffonts show me this:
$ pdffonts test.pdf ...
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Unable to open several (but not all) pdf files within mendeley desktop (Ubuntu 18.04)
as the title says, Mendeley Desktop says "Unable to open PDF - It may be damaged" but I am able to open with external viewer by Right click > Open File Externally.
Edit: The same file opens in ...
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How can I find all PDFs from multiple zip files that contain the search term?
Given:
A directory with 1..n ZIP files of random names (all ending with .zip)
Each zip file contains 1..n PDF files of random names (all ending with .pdf)
All PDFs are from the same source and are ...
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PDF book opens in Mendeley when openned from Calibre
I have Ubuntu Gnome installed and I am using i3wm. Everytime I double click a book in Calibre to open it it opens in Mendeley desktop.
This doesn't happen under Gnome.
Could you explain why this ...
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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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What's the difference between gs and pdftk in merge pdf files?
Here is the script where I merge the Figure and Supplementary Figure together before we submit the paper. I would like to know the difference between gs and pdftk?
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=...
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Disable color printing from `Document Viewer`
In Document Viewer version 3.10.03, is the color printing capability a function of the driver or a function of Document Viewer itself?
I want to print black only but when hunt for a way to disable ...
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Mark area on PDF file
I received a mail with a PDF attachment. I need to pass the 20 pages long PDF to a group of people.
This group of people should focus on a part on page 3. I would like to mark this part with a red ...
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Script to view office documents in Microsoft Office Online
I have to convert a lot of Microsoft Word documents to PDF for my work. It is very important to me to render the formatting as accurately as possible. I successfully installed Office 2010 on Xubuntu ...
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Resizing a selected area in a PDF
I am looking for a program that can resize a selected area in a PDF.
E.g. on Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Paint I can use the "Resize" feature:
(but Microsoft Paint doesn't support PDF and is ...
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HP printers does not print files
I use printer HP 1010, earlier it was HP PSC 1310, but the problem is still the same. When I need to print something, I click the button "print" (nevermind if it is a .doc file or .pdf, or open office ...
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