Questions tagged [pdf]
Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.
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PDF reader with Highlighting support and save the file [duplicate]
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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 Acrobat ...
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read pdf document properties from terminal as seen in nautilus
From the terminal I would like to be access the data that is readable when right clicking on a pdf file and selecting "document". example
I have tried reading metadata with tools such as mminfo and ...
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How to save files in pdf format?
Recently I'm having trouble with my LibreOffice app. It seems that it doesn't support PDF format to save documents. Do you guys know any way around this problem? I looked around for converters and ...
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Split landscape PDF into portrait pages
I am given a couple PDF files which are created using LaTeX in a landscape format. On my 24" monitor, I can comfortably read them full screen, but it is a pain to use when the windows is smaller, like ...
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What is the easiest way to rearrange pages in a PDF document?
Mac's Preview can be used to rearange pages in a PDF document by simply drag-and-dropping the pages around in the side panel. Is there any equivalent tool for Ubuntu? I have noticed, that the Document ...
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How do I change the color and font of PDF comments in Evince?
Evince now handles comments written in other pdf markup software (e.g. Adobe), which is very nice. Unfortunately, it chooses a yellow font on a white background that is almost impossible to read (...
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How to stop Nautilus from creating thumbnails of specific file types?
I'm trying to stop Nautilus from creating thumbnails of PDF files. In another thread on 'Ubuntu forums' someone said to open gconf-editor and disable the PDF entry in the '/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers' ...
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firefox shows only blank screen when opening new pdf
I use ubuntu 12.04 with firefox and adobe pdf plugin.
Since ubuntu 11.04 upto 12.04 i have the problem that i can open only one pdf file in the browser. After closing the pdf, firefox only shows a ...
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How to make embedded videos work in PDFs created by LaTeX? [closed]
I am on Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit and using Adobe Reader 9.
I am using LaTeX Beamer to create my slideshow. In Windows and MacOS I can open and play the embedded video in Adobe Reader. But I simply can't ...
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Why can I not install the latest version of gscan2pdf?
I installed gscan2pdf 0.9.? something from the Software Center. It has bugs in it that will not allow me to import a pdf with images without gscan only importing the images and ignoring the text.
I ...
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How to show Arabic properly in PDF files?
I have some PDF files in Arabic, They work fine on windows. however not on Ubuntu 12.04. In System Settings ▸ Language support I did install Arabic. I also tried other PDF programs but I just get ...
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Flattening PDF transparency
I have a PDF, made with Inkscape, that uses transparent colors. This image shall be used in a LaTeX document.
While preserving the transparency is nice for editing, it can be a problem for printing. ...
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How do I simulate overprinting in Adobe Reader?
On both Mac and Windows when I print a document there is an advanced screen that allows me to select an option called Simulate Overprinting, however such an option doesn't appear on the Ubuntu version....
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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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Printer "ripping" forever (network printer)
Since I installed Ubuntu 11.10, printing is a disaster. I did not have the problem with Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04), but maybe it just comes from the fact that someone else had installed it for me, and ...
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Open file using custom command: how to specify the file in cmd line?
I want to open PDF using PDF-XChange Viewer through WINE. How should I specify the pdf file name in the "custom command" line so that I can open a PDF file using PDF-XChange Viewer by double clicking ...
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I cannot save or print PDF/PS output when I create a document in Lyx
I installed Lyx (Processor) from the Ubuntu Software centre (Precise). It allows me to create and save Lyx documents but only allows me to view the PDF/PS rendition. Is there an additional package ...
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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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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 do I mange image placement in Lyx?
I am new to Lyx and used the tutorial but i have never used LaTex before and I am struggling with Image placement when creating documents. Specifically do the images have to be of a certain quality, ...
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How to copy from a pdf to another pdf in ubuntu/linux
So Preview for Mac OS X has this capability. I want to be able to just highlight whatever on a pdf, and be able to copy and paste immediately into another pdf file (via the clipboard).
I do a lot in ...
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How do I open PDF files in kword?
I have read in many places that kword can open pdf and save it in doc format ! but on ubuntu 11.10 I can not open pdf using kword as it does not showing pdf as supported files ?!!!
I want a pdf to ...
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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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Change default 'Print to File' settings
How can I change the default settings for 'Print to File' in the Print dialogue?
I would like to change the default save location from ~/ to ~/Desktop.
p.s. I do not want to have to use cups-pdf
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Is there a command line tool to bulk extract images from a pdf? [duplicate]
I have a pdf catalog that was given to me from a client in pdf format. They don't have the images but they're in the pdf.
Is there a way to extract all images from a pdf using a command line tool ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 Adobe PDF 9 not associated correctly
I have had problems associated Adobe PDF reader in Ubuntu for a long time. Any time I have needed to open a PDF for example in firefox or a downloaded PDF i have to manually open the file after ...
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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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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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How to batch convert .doc or .docx to .pdf
I need to batch convert a set of .doc or .docx files to .pdf in terminal, not using a GUI.
It would be helpful if I could batch-process multiple files.
I would also like to maintain as much meta-...
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How can I reduce the file size of a scanned PDF file?
I have a 72.9 MB PDF file that I need to shrink to 500 KB or below.
The file was a JPEG image that I had scanned and then converted to PDF.
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Getting the "Created" timestamp of a PDF file in the CLI
I'd like to know if there's a CLI command to get the "Created" timestamp from the "Document" tab (from file properties of a PDF) in the CLI?
I know that I can use stat to get Access/Modified/Changed ...
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How can I annotate PDFs so notes are compatible with Adobe Reader for Win/OSX?
I am looking for a tool which allows me to annotate PDFs in Ubuntu and share the PDFs with annotations with people who use OSX or Windows. I cannot assume that the others can or will install special ...
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How To Set Up Orca Screen Reader?
I'm helping a friend of mine set up an Ubuntu environment for school, but he requires special software that reads things out loud because of his dyslexia. Now, I immediately knew that Orca should do ...
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How to use adobe's pdf reader on chrome
I want to disable the pdf plugin built into Google Chrome, and use the official one by adobe. I was able to disable the built in plugin, I don't know where to get the alternative plugin. Where can I ...
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How can I uninstall adobe acroread?
I want to uninstall acroread that I downloaded from adobe's website and installed. How can I do that?
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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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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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Open Source Command Line Tools to Remove Hyperlinks in PDFs?
Are there any Open Source Tools to Remove PDF links in Ubuntu. I use PDFtk and i am not able to find any internal links in it. Due to the Internal links my python script that uses PyPdf to merge the ...
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Batch convert ai files to pdf / png etc
Does anybody know of software that can batch convert .ai into another format? Preferably png or pdf?
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Convert PDF to image
I'm trying to convert a PDF file (it's a book) into an image.
When I using convert like this
convert book.pdf book.jpg
or like this
convert book.pdf book.png
then I get this warning
Warning: ...
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How can I get smooth fonts in LyX?
I opened the introduction in LyX and used Ctrl+R to view it in evince. The fonts appear nice and smooth. If I copy and paste the first couple of paragraphs into a new document and render that, the ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 PDF Booklet Format won't print [closed]
I have Acroread (64 bit) installed on Ubuntu 11.10 and when trying to print a PDF document in Booklet format it just sits there in the print queue on a HP Deskjet 8500 saying "Processng".
Before when ...
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Inserting an Image into a PDF [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to put a picture on an existing pdf file?
Are there Linux/Ubuntu programs capable of inserting a partially transparent image into a PDF? I'm trying to "sign" a PDF ...
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Can not save PDF file with inputs, error message "Document is encrypted"
I have inserted inputs to a form given as a PDF file. Using Evince document viewer 3.2.1 on Ubuntu 11.10, there is no problem with inserting inputs to the form and to print the result.
But it is not ...
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converting images to pdf without quality loss
I am converting images to PDFs. I use following command
convert page.jpg page.pdf
and then combine multiple PDFs generated accordingly by command
pdftk 1.pdf 2.pdf output result.pdf
but I noticed ...
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How do I set a wine program (ex. Foxit Reader for Windows) as the default program?
I regularly annotate pdf files and unfortunately there is no good linux pdf reader that supports decent annotations. Evince has a very rudimentary and buggy annotation feature. So I'm stuck using a ...
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Embedding PDF in Chromium with Evince 3 and mozplugger [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get Chromium to show PDFs using Evince?
Does anyone accomplished that? I can't get it working, evince opens in it's own window.
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity, ...
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Control two instances of Evince from one script [closed]
I am looking for a way to synchronize two instances of Evince, so when one of them move a page up or down, the other one will do the same. This is for running a dual-head PDF presentation, where once ...
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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 do I combine multiple pdf files to an a4 papersize output?
currently I am using
gs -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite sOutputFile=combined.pdf input1.pdf input2.pdf input3.pdf
for combining my pdf files, however I have noticed, that ...
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