Questions tagged [pdf]
Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.
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How to set the default tint color in mupdf
According to the manual, the option seems to be -C, however it seems not working. How can I set default tint color?
The command I use is like this:
mupdf myfile.pdf -C FF0000
No color changed.
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How to search text within PDF files with docfetcher?
I'm trying to find some text within PDF files, but the results are not accurate! For exemple I have 2 PDF files which have the word domiciiado. When I run a search for this word (domiciliado), ...
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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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Removing Adobe Acrobat (acroread) can still run?
I recently installed the Adobe Acrobat hoping it's like the Microsoft version but evince is still better if you ask me.
I have been trying to remove it using
sudo apt-get purge acroread && ...
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qpdf encryption of a pdf file
Is there a way to encrypt a pdf with 128AES using only preinstalled ubuntu software of software from main repository? I noticed that exproting from libre office into pdf (one possibility) encrypts it ...
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A tabbed PDF reader that saves and restores the last session?
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, and I'm searching for a PDF reader with tabs, and one that will save my sessions upon closing and re-opening. Foxit Reader on Windows does this--if you close the program and ...
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Install mupdf-plugin/backend for `zathura` document viewer
I like the speed of MuPDF and the ui of Zathura
Luckily there is a mupdf-backend for Zathura.
Unfortunately it is not in the repositories and building following the instructions failed on an error:
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Find and replace with on PDF file from command line
I want to find specific text or word from PDF file and replace it with another text and make a new PDF file from command-line. I tried with sed, find, awk series on text files but I want to get on PDF ...
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how to remove pdf studio from ubuntu 14.04
Recently I installed PDF Studio 11, Trial(Evaluation) Version. As far as I remember, I downloaded it from their website, and the file "PDFStudio_v11_0_2_linux.sh" is at /home/.../Downloads. In ...
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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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Convert pdf to an editable format, retaining images
I have pdf files I need to convert another format. The files contain images and text. I need the pictures.
I tried to convert using abiword but the result unfortunately gets only text.
Command I use:...
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Is there any tool to convert pdf to ppt/odp slides in Linux/ Ubuntu offline?
I am looking for a tool that converts PDF into PPT files or supports any tweak to import PDF files into LibreOffice-impress, LibreOffice-Draw imports the PDF but that does not do the job. So far I am ...
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Quickly select entire page in Okular
Okular provides a nice way to copy a selection from a pdf onto the clipboard as an image. Most of the time I'm interested in copying the entire page, but I haven't found a way to make a selection ...
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How do I prevent CUPS from auto-rotating my PDF?
On my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system, I have a Citizen CL-S621Z label printer, with 50x80mm labels (portrait), and a 50x80mm PDF that I wish to print:
Trouble is, CUPS turns the job 270° degrees, so that it ...
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How do I launch zathura from bash/emacs maximized / fullscreen?
I use recently discovered zathura and I like it a lot. I use it now to check the documents from emacs/AUCTeX like:
(setq TeX-view-program-list '(("zathura" "zathura --page=%(outpage) %o")))
Which is ...
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How to extract first 10pages from each pdf files of a folder
I have 90 sub-folders in a folder. Each sub-folder contains pdf files. Total pdf files are nearly 2200. How can I extract page number 3 to 10 from all pdfs?
To extract the pages from one pdf, I am ...
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Highlight words in Document Viewer
I am currently using Ubuntu 15.10. I need to highlight some sentences and/or paragraphs for easy searching but I can't find any option for this in the "Document Viewer" which is the default ...
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I want to set the default document viewer, but cannot change ImageMagick [duplicate]
Set default document Viewer
but no change ImageMagick(display).
I'm trying, but I can not change.
Problem screenshot
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How to set document viewer default application?
I tried to set document viewer default application.
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Firefox opens downloaded PDFs in File Roller [duplicate]
When I download a PDF and try to open it from the Downloads window, it will attempt to open it in File Roller, which will complain that about PDF not being a supported archive type; I'd like to open ...
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Weblink redirection to site from pdf
While opening a PDF in evince and click any web link on that PDF it is not redirecting to the site on UBUNTU 12.04. My default browser is google chrome. I have updated it recently. In terminal a error ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 some applications take too long to start up
When I start up Ubuntu 16.04 some applications take too long to run the first time I open them, including Chrome and any PDF viewer. Others, like nautilus, start up immediately.
The first time I try ...
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Convert PostScript to PDF
I have multiple postscript files that I'd like to convert to PDF using a script. I'm not looking for script assistance, but rather assistance with what program would/could I use to make the conversion ...
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How to make Document Viewer allow me to scroll through the pages?
I am currently in the process of building an LFS system, and the LFS book comes in the format of a >300 page long PDF file. I am reading it via Ubuntu's default document viewer, and when I started I ...
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Adobe Reader doesn't show .flv files. Ubuntu 14.04
I created a .flv file and have inserted in a beamer presentation. My problem is that as I understand to view pdf files with video I use adobe reader. No problem to install, but when I try to watch the ...
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How to Merge-and-Reorder Images and PDF pages? [duplicate]
I want to reorder pages of my PDF document by using implicitly .png/.jpg images in the processing, not by the easiest way as some of you want here about pdfshuffler which cannot do this so this is not ...
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Completed PDF Form not Visible on Other Computer
I filled out a form for my supervisor using Evince in Ubuntu 14.04 but she can't see my (typed) signature line and date. I can see it fine in both Evince and the Gmail viewer. She is using Adobe ...
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How to install the latest version of poppler?
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and it does not have the latest version of poppler.
This is blocking me from opening important documents that are password protected. I need the latest version to do my day-to-...
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PDF viewer with subpixel rendering
Is there any PDF viewer (besides Adobe Reader) which is able to render text with sub-pixel anti-aliasing? Or perhaps there is an option somewhere which enables it?
I tried MuPDF and Document Viewer/...
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How to change the text font color on multiple PDF pages at once?
This is a question which keeps coming back to me and hitherto has remained unanswered. Having once again spent too much time googling for a solution in vain, can anyone help?
Goal
I'm looking for a ...
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Texmaker internal pdf viewer deforms document
I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 lately and reinstalled texlive and texmaker to write in latex. When testing it for a new document I saw that the pdf was not being displayed properly. To clarify the ...
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How to convert Excel spreadsheet 2007 to pdf in Linux [duplicate]
There is no cute pdf writer. How can i convert excel spreadsheet 2007
to pdf in linux
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Why are the images produced by pdfimages different when using the -all flag?
It's my understanding that pdfimages -all extracts images from PDFs in their native formats.
Therefore, I expected that the JPG (lossy) images extracted from that command would have the same pixel ...
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Why are image files from pdfimages bigger than the PDFs they came from?
On Ubuntu 16.04, pdfimages -all produces image files whose sum of storage use is greater than the PDF files from which they came.
Is there any explanation for this? How can I extract image files ...
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Copying Okular notes form Windows to Ubuntu
I have many PDF-files with Okular-notes on them in Windows. Now I would like to copy them into my Linux system. Okular-notes are not saved within the PDF-files.
In Linux annotations are located in ~/....
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PDF font falls back to DejaVu Sans, need a monospace replacement
I have a PDF that features code fragments and it references Courier Std (which is not available on my system and I am not planning to buy it either). The problem is that in the Evince Document Viewer (...
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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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ubuntu 16.04 snappy core and opening pdf files
Is it possible to have all pdf files open in a snappy core project / application to prevent infection of the main machine OS? If so how? PDf files are increasingly being infected with some type of ...
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Extract page range from pdf [duplicate]
I want to extract the total page range of a pdf using using bash commands. Is it possible to do.
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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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Print margins on Firefox (also with Print Edit)?
How can I edit the print margins in Firefox in Ubuntu 14.04? I would like to print a page in A3, with custom page margins, to a PDF...
There are suggestions out there like "setting print margins is ...
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How to programmatically determine DPI of images in PDF file?
I have some PDF files that I want to split apart into TIFF files using convert (in order to OCR via tesseract). This so far is working great - except that in order to automate the whole process, I ...
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Okular annotations - *.xml file path and correct colour issue
The review highlights made in okular are stored in ~/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/ , with a *.xml file for each annotated *.pdf.
1st question:
How can I change the path of the xml annotations to be ...
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Can one change the output path of cups pdf printer dynamically
One can call lpr to use cups-pdf printer to print a file to pdf, for instance foo.txt
lpr -P PDF foo.txt
When calling, the printer creates a directory called PDF in the $HOME directory and creates a ...
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Open a PDF which is password protected [closed]
One day ago, I downloaded a PDF that requires a password. Then I searched for software to decrypt the password that's called pdfcrack.
Then I installed pdfcrack and ran a command in the Terminal:
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pdf is printing 10 pages off
I have a data-sheet for a motherboard I am working with:
I tried to print page 136, but 126 came out of my printer.
I thought ok, sometimes the pages don't match up exactly between the document and ...
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Is there any Ubuntu PDF reader which can select (snapshot) , save, and export pages?
I installed Foxit in Ubuntu 14.04 but it doesn't seem to have the 'snapshot' feature of the Windows version, ability to save and export a page to..say..Libroffice to save as a word page doc. Does such ...
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Reduce size of pdf file with ocr and tables
I have a scanned file, where text has been recognized already, yet it weights a whooping 80 mbytes.
During the scanning process I did a silly thing such as scanning in grayscale.
Now the pdf has a ...
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PdfBox 2.0.0 write text at given postion in a page
I have just passed from PdfBox 1.8 to 2.0.0 and there are quite significant differences.
Before to write a text on an existing pdf page I used drawString.
In 2.0.0 draw string is deprecated but ...
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How to add Table Of Content in a PDF file (internal one)?
So I have an OyO (Thalia) which can read PDF files. It have an option "Table of content". It shows several labels which direct on certain pages for example when opening "64-ia-32-architectures-...