Questions tagged [pdf]
Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.
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Save instead of Save as a copy in Evince Reader
I am currently using Evince Document Viewer Version 3.36.10 on Ubuntu 20.04. When I try to save an annotated pdf, it shows only the Save a copy option. How do I make it overwrite the current file? I ...
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How to Convert 2 Image to 1 Page PDF With terminal?
I have a question, I have a problem, I want to change 2 images in 1 page pdf, how do I do it? I tried this command
convert *.jpg -resize 1240x1753 \
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cannot print from evince any more
I'm on 20.04 with a HP Jaserjet 1018, hplip version 3.20.3
Since today, I cannot print PDFs from Evince (Document Viewer) any more. In the "Status" tab of the HP Device Manager, it says &...
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Is there a way to convert .xif files (created with Xerox Pagis app on old win 32 OS) to pdf?
I need to convert some 100 .xif files to pdf. As far as I know the only way is to find a 32bit PC with NT or Win2000 and install the Pagis (scanner app of Xerox).xif.
Is there a better way using a ...
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How to convert a directory of jpg files to a pdf with filenames as bookmarks?
I have a directory of jpg files that are scans of my handwritten notes. How do I convert them to a single pdf file that has the filenames as bookmarks?
(I eventually also want to add ocr. As ...
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How to convert office file like .doc .ppt and other on Ubuntu [duplicate]
Can anyone suggest me a command utility software for Ubuntu to convert all office files to pdf and it must be a free software.
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Printer doesn't print after data received but scan works on Ubuntu 20.04
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 and I have a DCP-1612W printer. The scanning works fine, but it doesn't print some specific files. A notification pops up with title Printing completed and the printer does ...
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How to convert signed doc with extensions .adoc or .edoc to pdf using command line?
I need to convert signed .doc which have extensions .adoc or .edoc to PDF using the command line.
I have tried lowriter, soffice and unoconv but none of them seem to read these formats.
Is there any ...
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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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How to put multiple PDFs on one page (e.g., four on one / 4 on 1) with annotations preserved?
I have a PDF document (slides) with annotations performed with a pen. For the handout, I want to print them in 4-on-1 fashion, and thus of course including the annotations.
There are some solutions on ...
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CUPS-PDF Help figuring out which configuration file is being used
I cannot seem to figure out which configuration file is being used.
My printer keeps working. This is a remote setup, I don't have the admin interface setup.
I have just done a batch find on my ...
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How to make a brochure from a pdf file in ubuntu?
Say that I have a 16-page pdf file, A4 sized. I have A4 paper and printer. I want to shrink it to halves, and print them on 4 sheets of paper, double side, fold them in halves, and staple it in the ...
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Get printer-ready black text on white background in scanned pdf files (remove grayscale or color background)
How can I turn photos of paper documents into a scanned document? is related, but not the same, as I'm talking about pdf files. The processing of images seems complicated in the answers under the ...
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ImageMagick trouble
Every time I try to download a pdf file, ImageMagick is launched and fails to render the file. How do I get rid of or disable ImageMagick?
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permission denied when Evince tries to use Chrome to open link
I know there are existing questions about problems with Evince opening links, but this looks like a new error. This is in 21.04 but I think the error is very recent, i.e. the links worked earlier in ...
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Combine a .jpg and .txt in one PDF file (A4 format)
I'm trying to combine two separate files into one PDF file (A4 format). The left side should be filled with a jpeg image (for example: 0050.jpg) and the right side should be filled with text (or an ...
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How to set LibreOffice as the default app to open Pages documents
Since LibreOffice can open and edit Pages documents, I would like to set LibreOffice as the default app to open Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents. For the sake of this question, I will refer to ...
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Add watermark to all PDF pages
Please tell me how to use the command line correctly in this case.
And so the task, there are a lot of pdf files on all pages of these files I need to add a watermark.
I made watermark in pdf and it ...
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How to change the Z order of link objects in pdfs (i.e. send back)
Adobe Acrobat and Master PDF editor both allow users to change the Z order of objects (i.e. determine which object is obscured when objects overlap). However, neither appears to allow the same ...
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How to edit a PDF file in LibreOffice Draw or LibreOffice Writer without corrupting it?
I have a PDF file which I want to edit in LibreOffice Draw/Writer without corrupting it. Is there any way I can do it?
I have already installed the LibreOffice pdfimport plugin, yet the PDF file is ...
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How to replace text in PDF documents?
When I am modifying a PDF document, there is a situation that the same name or number needs to be modified to the same content. If there is a replacement function, it is much more convenient than to ...
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Is there a PDF reader and editor with dark mode and multi-color highlights?
The use cases are: A GOOD dark mode (if possible not only inverted colors). Highlights with different colors. Fill some tests (for example in questions where you have to put True or False, add ...
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Create a PDF with version PDF/X-1a:2001
I need to create a PDF file on the console in the format
300 DPI
PDF-VERSION: PDF/X-1a:2001
Colors: Coated Fogra 39
I use python to take a screenshot in 5 dpi from a ZeroNet site with selenium:
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How do I add a video to a PDF file?
Adobe Acrobat allows to embed videos in PDF files. Is there a way to do this with a free tool like pdftk?
I have several slides in my pdf and I would like to add an mp4 or webm file among those slides....
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CUPS-PDF how to tell who printed? (remote instance)
I have a cups-pdf setup on a Ubuntu EC2 instance. It works my question is how I can tell what computer printed to it... even if it's by IP address.
What part of the cups-pdf "runtime" would ...
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How to print 4 odd pages per sheet (in front), and 4 even pages (in back)?
I have a PDF file (with 8 pages), I want to print it in the following way:
It must be 4 pages per sheet,
The odd pages must be printed together, same for the even pages
So, we have these pages (1, 2,...
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Make Adobe Acrobat Reader DC default PDF application ubuntu 20.04
I have recently installed Adobe Acrobat Reader DC version 2020.013.20064 on Ubuntu 20.04.
I installed it following these instructions: https://tutorialforlinux.com/2020/06/11/step-by-step-acrobat-...
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Why is my Brother printer not printing fonts in a PDF correctly?
I have a Brother HL-L2380DW printer, which is connected wirelessly to my Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS desktop. Typically, I can print from it without issue, but presently, it is not printing a certain PDF ...
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How to open pdf file in Nautilus as new Okular tab?
This works in the previous version (tested on 16.04): set Okular as default pdf viewer. Open nautilus, double click pdf file. Open another pdf file will bring new tab to Okular. But this method didn't ...
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Print large pdf page as multiple tiles with small overlap and index marks
I have a large document (a pdf with a document size >> A4) that I need to print at 100% scale. This means it will take several A4 sheets.
What I would like is a a small (ideally definable) ...
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Is there any pdf reader or editor (free) to highlight in MANY colors? (Not in only one yellow color)
I'm using Document Viewer, and I can not highlight texts in multiple colors. On Adobe Acrobat Reader I used to highlight texts in many colors,
but now I've changed my OS to UBUNTU, so I need the ...
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Change default pdf viewer in WSL2
I am using WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04 inside Windows 10. xdg-open currently opens something called gv: as the default pdf viewer. I would like to use zathura. I couldn't find any .desktop files in the WSL2 ...
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How to make a PDF Form uneditable?
Is there a way I can fill out a PDF form in Ubuntu and safe it in a way that one cannot alter it longer? I remember there is such function on some other OS (e.g. macOS), but it seems like the Ubuntu ...
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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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PDF freezing my laptop
I've tried to open this PDF (UPDATED) on Chrome, Evince and Zathura. All freeze my laptop. I've tried to compress the file using ghostscript, but it also freezes. I waited more than 1 hour and it just ...
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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
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Incorrect font spacing to fill PDF form
I am filling out this PDF form, IRS Form 1040, in evince 3.36.7 on Ubuntu 20.04 and having a problem that the numbers I input are not aligned correctly with the background bars. Please see this ...
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KDE Service Menus get list of selected files in selected order
I try to add an Service Menu Action to dolphin to combine selected pdf-files with pdfunite.
It works so far. Now I am stuck, because I want to select the order, in which the files are concatenated. ...
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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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Why does compressing this PDF using "convert" make this pdf bigger?
Using the command convert -density 100 -quality 100 in.pdf out.pdf to convert a scan into a smaller pdf has worked for me before. Yet I have come accross a scan that it does not work on.
I have tried ...
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Tab completion for pdf files with spaces in path
I want to open the pdf file ~/dir1\ with\ spaces/dir2/file.pdf from the command line. I type evince ~/dir1\ with\ spaces/ and hit TAB twice for autocomplete. But I won't get offered dir2. After adding ...
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Fill & Sign PDF on Ubuntu
When using Adobe Reader on a Windows desktop, one can open a PDF and use the fill & sign option. This option does not seem to appear on the Ubuntu version of Adobe Reader. How does one fill and ...
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How can I compress my .PDF (two pages) to less than 100 kB?
I have a PDF file that I want to compress to less than 100 kB. It has a scan of two pages that I scanned from my mobile scanner. Post scan it is 338 kB (with minimum quality to view the pages). ...
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How to print a pdf file to pdf including annotations and force rasterization from the terminal
What I actually want to achieve is, the result I get when printing to pdf from Okular and clicking on force rasterization and print annotations. However, I would like to do this from the terminal (my ...
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Bullet points appear as a 't' when exporting PDFs from WPS Office
When I export a presentation to PDF from WPS Office, I have the issue that bullet points do not show correctly. In WPS office the bullet points being shown like this:
In the exported PDF they look ...
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WARNING: Using fallback font ArialMT for base font Symbol
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OS lsb_release -a : Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
PHP php -v : 8.0.1
Apache apache2 -v : 2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
Python3 python3 --version : Python 3.6.9
Problem Statement:
I'm using Python script which ...
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What is the simplest way to print a PDF file?
There are several ways to use OpenOffice to print a PDF file, but somehow that feels like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly. So what is the very simplest, lightweight way to print a PDF file without ...
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PDF and other printers don't show in printer list in Quasar Accounting
I am using Xubuntu 20.04 and I'm having some difficulty with some features for the PDF and Canon printers.
The issue is, I installed the printers and they work well to print from the browser and ...
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How to specify the title of the PDF file GS produces?
I'm using this
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None -sOutputFile=finished.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf
to concatenate 3 PDF files, and gs inexplicably takes the ...
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PDF/eBook reader with horizontal scrolling feature instead of vertical
So far all the readers I experienced scroll pages vertically, while fitting horizontally A4 pages' width.
Are there softwares out there able to:
"swipe left" pages
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