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Is there an Ubuntu note app that allows printing to PDF similar to MS OneNote?

I am interested in uploading OCR capable documents to an application that allows me to easily scan or click from one file to another within a collection of finance papers, without needing to open each ...
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converting epub files to PDF format

I would like to know the ways in which epub files can be converted to pdf in ubuntu. Anyway, GUI or command line conversion is fine as far as my epub gets converted to pdf. Thanks.
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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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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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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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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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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 do I edit text in a scanned .jpeg?

I need to upload a scanned image as a PDF document. After scanning the document, I have a .jpeg with small text that I want to edit before converting to PDF for the upload. I have never done this ...
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How do I type text on top of a PDF?

I've been given a form to fill out as a PDF. It is not a fillable PDF, it's just a file that I'm expected to print out, fill in by hand, and scan back in. Is there something available in the ...
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Is there a tool to split a book saved as a single PDF into one PDF per chapter?

I have a few books as PDFs, and I'd like to split them by chapter for easier consumption on a mobile phone. Is there any tool (or sequence of tools) I can use to easily split the book into different ...
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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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How to make annotations on .PDF files like on Okular, but without using Okular? What .PDF viewer should I use?

So guys, I'm answering some question from a school test (saved in .pdf) and I would like to do it like I did once on Okular, using a cursor-pen to mark the alternatives. Like on this screenshot from ...
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Open pdf documents with different Reader

I have certain pdf Documents (DRM) which I can only open with Acrobat Reader (Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management). Now I like simply double-clicking these PDF files and Acrobat Reader opens. What ...
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PDF reader with Highlighting support and save the file [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I highlight PDFs? I am missing the feature of Highlighting the PDF file directly from reader and saving the changes in the file. This is a feature of Adobe ...
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3answers
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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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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 ...
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Web capture like adobe acrobat pro?

I'm looking for something Ubuntu that compares to web-capture in adobe acrobat pro. It's a feature that asks for a url, whether to follow links, and if so how many levels to follow. It then goes to ...
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How can I add text and images (for example, a signature) to a PDF?

On occasion I receive forms to fill in as PDFs intended for printing (these are not true PDF forms, they do not contain fields). I would like to type onto them, and perhaps add a scanned copy of my ...
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Viewing PDF comments

In Ubuntu 10.04 Evince does not display comments in an annotated PDF file. Or at least that is what my experience is when I was trying to view them. I searched for information about it and I found ...
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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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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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How to convert PDF to Image?

I have requirement of converting PDF pages to images. There is a background image with some text written, so when I save this as image only background image got saved. Is there any software available ...
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Shrinking PDF-files [closed]

I have some PDF-files that I would like to shrink. The biggest is 1.2 MB, but I need it to be smaller than 1 MB. Any suggestions as to how? (Terminal commands would be awesome)
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pdf to mobi convertor

is there any application in natty which can convert a pdf file into a mobi file?
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5answers
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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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5answers
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What to use to annotate PDF (Highlight/Underline) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I highlight PDFs? In windows, I can use Foxit but on Ubuntu x64, what can I use? Foxit seem to only provide a i386 version
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Remove text information from a PDF?

I printed a recent credit card statement straight to PDF and used PDFEdit to black out (highlight in black) the information I'd prefer not to share with the party I need to send this to. Now I can't ...
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Renumber pages of a PDF

I want to edit the metadata of a scanned PDF to assign custom page numbers to different pages. For example, what are now pages 1-3 I might want to call i, ii and iii, and what are pages 4-10, I want ...
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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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1answer
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Bookmark pdf and djvu files

For pdf: How can I create outlines/bookmarks for and merge them into pdf files in either terminal or in GUI application in Ubuntu? For djvu: I know how to do the same thing for djvu files in terminal ...
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A PDF viewer supporting SyncTeX for Gnome

I am looking for a PDF viewer for working with LaTeX and SyncTeX (forward and inverse search) under Gnome. I know from previous questions in various forums that Okular has this feature, but I prefer ...
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Which PDF Viewer would you recommend? [closed]

Which PDF-Viewer would you recommend to use in Ubuntu? At the moment I use the standard document viewer (Evince) but I'm missing features like stageless continous zooming.
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7answers
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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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8answers
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Create pdf from HTML book

There are some sites that provide books as HTML pages (e.g., legal stuff). What can I use to create a PDF book from these pages, based on the already-existing structure? In Windows there is Adobe ...
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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