Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.
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Does Evince (Document Viewer) have a plug-in system?
Does it have API? If not, whats the simplest PDF viewer that does?
What I do want to create: Maybe annotations (which could be shared via an external file) or creating hyper links to Wikipedia. That ...
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How should I 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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Auto convert odt to pdf
I am creating a few documents in Libre office and I have to always send them as .pdf.
but each and every time I forget to export it as pdf , So is there any way to auto convert the .odt document into ...
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Spellcheck for pdf file
Is there any utility or command on Ubuntu for checking spelling errors in a pdf file? or how can I integrate spellcheck in evince(1)?
Please let me know.
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How can I get Chromium to download PDF files automatically?
When I click on a PDF link on Chromium I get a 'Missing Plug-in' page.
It used to be that it would download the PDF and then I could view it with Evince. To do this now I have to right click and ...
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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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Very heavy .PDF file. How to handle it?
I should print this file on paper, but it is heavy (2,3 MB) and the printing process is very slow.
But this is not the whole problem. I should first create another .pdf file (grayscale) with four ...
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How to save files in pdf format?
Lately I have been having trouble with my Libre Office ap. I appears that it doesn't have anymore the Save to PDF command. Do you guys know any way around this problem? I looked around for converters ...
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Is there a program that can edit PDF black/white levels?
I have used the Simple Scanner (really nice app, by the way) to scan some sheet music. Looks nice but it's picking up too much detail and would like to adjust the levels.
Sadly, the GIMP fails so ...
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Cannot view PDF files with fillable fields with Okular
Most PDF files work perfectly well with my default document viewer Okular, but cannot open a PDF file with fillable field with any program other than Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread).
Is there anyway ...
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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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Managing a large collection of PDF files
I have a large collection of PDF files and am looking forward to an application that:
Is easy to install (Available in repositories)
Is portable (migration to other computer running linux or windows ...
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Text inside files has squares with numbers in it
Some text files I come across, have little squares with numbers in them (in place of certain characters). I am unable to copy and paste these in Ubuntu, but may search and replace in gedit each ...
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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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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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Printing PDF-files via network extremely slow
I encounter grave problems trying to print PDF-files, no matter whether I use Evince, Okular or any other linux program. The Documents are printed extremely slowly or even completely fail to print at ...
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What free PDF editing software packages are available? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which programs can I use to edit PDF files?
I'm looking for a free PDF editor that will allow me to selectively delete pages and content, including selective parts of a ...
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How do I configure the “Print_to_PDF”-printer and where does it print to?
I have a printer queue called "Print_to_PDF". I don't know why and where from I have it, and also not how I can configure it. If I print using that printer, I cannot find the output file anywhere.
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How can I cut the margin of a PDF or djvu file for optimal booklet printing?
I have a file which has exaggerated margins. This forces me to print it as a booklet, otherwise I feel I'm waisting paper (a good size of the font allows me to do so). But if I print directly in ...
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Handle Doc/Docx Templates on a headless server to produce PDFs preferably without using OpenOffice.org
On a production web server I have to produce letters based on a template I got in MS-Word binary format. I use PHP and for the search and replace task I found PHPWord, which can handle Docx files, so ...
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What is the default PDF Reader in 11.10?
Recently I installed Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 on my desktop. It has a built-in PDF reader which I accidentally uninstalled when I removed ghostscript with the following command:
sudo apt-get ...
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Why do this PDF's fonts appear unreadable on my machine?
I'm trying to read The Art of Assembly Language as per this answer on Stack Overflow. When I open it on my Ubuntu 12.04 box, it looks like this:
I haven't tested it on another machine, but this ...
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Is there a GUI to convert/extract images to/from pdf?
I mean something like a graphical interface / front end for Imagemagick or a simpler application that would allow converting/extracting images through the interface (not in the Terminal).
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convert ps to pdf
How do I convert *.ps file to a .pdf file? I tried several links given by google search, but either solution is really old and does not work for latest versions of ps and pdf files, or they do not ...
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How to batch convert .doc or .docx to .pdf
What is needed to batch convert a set of .doc or .docx files to .pdf in terminal, not using a GUI. Should this be done using a single file versus a group.
I would also like to maintain as much ...
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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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Trying to convert ppt to pdf using libreoffice ---headless -convert- topdf with php script
When used below command on the command line it working file
libreoffice --headless -convert-to pdf ".$sourse." -outdir outputolder/
but, if use in php script nothing happen. Can anybody provide ...
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Why do some PDFs have such ugly fonts in Document Viewer?
Why are the fonts in Document Viewer so ugly and non-antialiased?
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pdf reader that supports tabs
I want a pdf that is sort of browser-like , I mean that you can open many pdfs and one session and navigate between them in tabs,
foxit reader does that on windows, I don't know about foxit reader ...
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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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How to edit PDF document?
Usually I receive a PDF contract that I need to sign and send back online. I am wondering what is the easiest way to do so on computer, to avoid the hassle of print/sign/scan process?
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How can I convert a tex file to pdf on via the command line?
Is there a package that contains a Tex to PDF converter/renderer available on Ubuntu 12.04?
If not can you recommend a tool for me to download from elsewhere that can do this that is simple to ...
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Can Firefox open (embedded) PDF's without starting Okular?
How can I make Firefox on Kubuntu to open PDF in its embedded PDF viewer, like it does on Windows? Currently it opens PDF's in Okular. Some websites (with embedded PDF's) malfunction because of this ...
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PDF reader that supports bookmarks?
Is there a PDF reader that supports bookmarks? I'm reading a book and it would be great to bookmark where I left off. I can't seem to find a PDF reader that does this very simple thing.
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Where is the difference between using `pdfimages` from poppler-utils and using the one provided by xpdf-utils for image extraction?
I need to extract a bunch of images from a PDF file. pdfimages should do the job. When trying to install, I got two alternatives poppler-utils and xpdf-utils so i wonder, whicht to choose.
Where are ...
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select pages for pdf print
I am printing the current page of a pdf file in evince. But I found that in evince, there are two different page numbers showing the current page. If I choose the one shown in an input box, that will ...
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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 close Multiple Pdfs at the same time
I have lots of pdf opened(40-50). I want to close all pdfs at the same time, not one by one.
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Split/Tile A3 (landscape) pdf to A4 (portrait)
How can I easily convert/split/tile every page of an PDF file which is A3/landscape to A4/portrait?
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Merge Multiple Documents and Convert to One Pdf in LibreOffice from Terminal
In my Ubuntu Server 12.04, I am converting all .docx files under a directory to .pdf files with this command:
libreoffice -headless -convert-to pdf:writer_pdf_Export *.docx
Can I merge multiple ...
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Command line tool to crop PDF files
I am looking for an open source command line tool to crop PDF file just like we can do in Adobe Acrobat Pro. I have tried PdfTk, ImageMagick, PyPDF, and GhostScript—all with no success so far.
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Create bookmarks in pdf
I've noticed that when viewing some PDFs in Evince some of them have a index in the left side of Evince where items are clickable.
Well i want to build something like that for one PDF is that ...
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Transform .odt document into PDF compatible with Adobe Reader 5 with embedded fonts
I need to create PDFs out of .odt documents, for submission on an online application website. It is required that the PDFs be "compatible with Adobe Acrobat Reader version 5 or higher, with embedded ...
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How Do I Export Pages from Browser with Embedded Hyperlinks?
Made a sad discovery today. I have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. My client is in the ad business and she had a marketing competition task for me. She wanted me to visit websites of the competitors, and export the ...
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How do I create a cube effect for PDF presentation transitions?
I already saw in the past some presentations made with a 'cube effect' transition, similar to the 3D-multiple desktop of Compiz. I heard 'Keynotes' on Mac OSX could do that.
Is it possible to do the ...
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What I can use to highlight PDF? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I highlight PDFs?
Is there a software like Mac's default viewer, that allows you to annotate and highlight PDF documents?
Thanks in advance,
Marco
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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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How to reduce the size of a pdf file?
I'm looking for a way in Ubuntu to reduce the size of a pdf (by reducing the quality of the images).
I know that this can be done in Ghostscript by typing the following command in terminal:
gs ...
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How do I open PDFs from gnome-shell in evince?
When I press the super key and search for a pdf (or a LibreOffice document) and then click it to open, it opens in gnome-documents. Which while I'm sure is well intentioned is very frustrating, as ...
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Exporting Markdown + CSS to PDF
I'm in need of an application that can do something like Marked for OS X does.
The function I need is a bit more specific: I want the app to export Markdown to PDF, but using CSS - I've achieved this ...
