Questions tagged [adobe-acrobat]
Adobe Acrobat is Adobe's family of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) management software.
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What could stop an app from executing on Windows 10 Home with "Windows cannot find <path to executable>"?
I'm having an issue with a Windows 10 Home workstation where Acrobat Reader DC refuses to open.
Initially I uninstalled it and then reinstalled it and had the same error. I then used the Acrobat ...
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Why does Windows will not allow me to paste multi-line text of PDF file to save the file?
I use Firefox and I have Adobe Reader plugin installed on it. When working with PDF files (opened in Firefox), I would like to save PDF documents by their titles. So, I copy the title of the PDF and ...
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Hide and reveal text in pdf via Adobe Acrobat/other software
How can I hide and reveal text in acrobat, so that as e.g. a teacher, one can
produce pdf on a topic
hide certain items of text in the pdf
students can then read the pdf, try to work out the answer,...
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How do I edit the printing margins \ borders of a PDF, in Adobe Acrobat Pro or Soda PDF Pro, in order to print the PDF?
I'm running Windows 7
I have a PDF doc that is a 48 page users manual. I am wanting to print it, but 48 pages would be a waste. So I tried to combine 4 of the PDF pages onto one printed page. I am ...
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unable to type some characters in adobe acrobat and unable to insert table
I came across two problems.
first, I am unable to type some specific letter, like upper case R,E,+ and so on, but I can type other upper case letter like upper case T. If I am trying to type, they ...
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What are exact settings in Adobe Acrobat "Reduced Size PDF..." relative to "Optimized PDF..."?
Does anybody know what are the exact settings whne saving a PDF document in "Reduced Size PDF..." vs. saving it in "Optimized PDF..."?
I know "Optimized PDF..." has different modes like Standard, ...
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How to have a Word and PDF Document show off-white, ivory or light gray background on screen but automatically print on paper as white?
How to have a Word and PDF Document show off-white, ivory or light gray background on screen but automatically print on paper as white?
Motivation behind it:
On screen its better and easier to read ...
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Acrobat Eyedropper Tool
I have searched the Acrobat dialog and online for a plugin to select colors from a pdf using an eyedropper.
I need a tool to select hex color values from acrobat pdf's. Where can I find one? I am ...
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Does OS X Preview support saving PDF with JBIG2 compression?
I have a PDF file containing hundreds of BW scannings, that I created on Windows using lossy JBIG2 compression, resulting in a nice 8MB file.
I can open that file on OSX with Preview, but if I add ...
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Speeding up the browsing of PDFs in Adobe Acrobat
I have the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat 9 (9.0.5) installed on a relatively powerful workstation: A Windows 7 64 bit machine with 96 GB of RAM and two six-core processors Intel Xeon X5690 @ 3....
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Links and Back within PDF
I have a PDF document that has links in various places to figures/tables that are towards the end of the document. Let's say I have a link on page 2 that you click to go to Figure 7. I have the same ...
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Would it be possible to show line numbers as part of the pdf document
Would it be possible to show line numbers as part of the pdf document. What option should I use?
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Edit text in-line in an Adobe Acrobat Document .pdf?
I've been asked to make changes to a .pdf file. This consists of removing a single line of text.
I have been given this .pdf file, but the original file that the .pdf file was generated from has ...
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0 bytes PDF created
I am trying to save from rows from the Powerbuilder datawindow to PDF and it creates 0 bytes files and gives message 'Save Rows As Failed'. Anyone knows why windows 7 and Adobe 9 does this? It work ...
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Not able to copy Korean characters from PDF file using Acrobat Reader
I decided to study Korean and I found a book that I want to copy some vocabulary from, the problem is when I paste the copied text, it turns into gibberish characters. Any idea how to solve this? I ...
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Why do fonts appear different (thinner) in adobe acrobat compared to other pdf viewers?
I have seen that this question has been raised in the past and the OP was able to resolve it by turning on smooth text, but my settings are default yet there compared to the foxit and web viewer the ...
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Cannot install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC due to "Old/New Acrobat version already installed"
Trying to solve this problem, I decided to (again) re-install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.
As usual I removed it via "Add or remove programs".
All went fine.
But then I cannot install the new ...
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How to distinguish between hyphens and dashes in Adobe Acrobat?
When searching a document, Adobe Acrobat does not distinguish between hyphens and dashes. For example, when I try to search for em dashes, the results include hyphens, en dashes and em dashes.
This ...
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Filling PDF Forms
I work at a law office that does a lot of work with USCIS which means filling out A LOT of PDF forms with our clients' details. This is often extremely tedious and repetitive, hence my desire for ...
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Lossless or near lossless compression options for PDFs containing grayscale with JPEG2000?
I have some older books (pre 1900) that I'm working on archiving to a digital format. Most of the time using greyscale is satisfactory in terms of color preservation, however I'm having trouble with ...
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Why isn't Adobe Acrobat's 'Map Colors' fixup changing a PDF's text colors?
Please see the screenshot beneath. I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Version 2019.010.20064. The PDF in question can be downloaded here.
I'm trying to use mrserge's method to convert the book's default ...
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Hotkeys set to open apps in windows 10
I set a hotkey in windows 10 to open Adobe Acrobat 15 which was recently removed and replaced with newer version Acrobat 17. I then set the same hotkey CTRL-ALT A to Acrobat 17, but I get an error ...
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Is it possible to make Acrobat DC preserve alt text from web pages?
We are converting a large number of old HTML-formatted newsletters to PDF format for long-term archiving. We want to ensure that the resulting PDFs are accessible. We're using Adobe Acrobat DC to ...
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Differences in raw text between downloaded PDF and the same PDF embedded in XML [closed]
I am looking at publicly-available company filings on the SEC's EDGAR database. For each filing, there is a .txt file containing detailed information about the filing in what looks like XML format (I'...
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Is it possible to print PDF slides off-centre?
not sure sure where to ask this: I have a slideshow in PDF format from class (it is only available as PDF, no other formats).
I wanted to print the slides off-centre on the paper. For example, have ...
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How can I avoid the "save changes" window when running an action on several documents in Adobe Acrobat Pro?
How can I avoid the "save changes" window when running an action on several documents in Adobe Acrobat Pro?
For example, if I use this action to convert documents into PDF:
Save Settings:
Then ...
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Why does Acrobat change my text when I combine files?
When I combine multiple word documents into a single PDF, there is one content control in the header in each document that Acrobat is inserting the characters "48T" before the text.
It does this ...
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Importing JPEGs into Acrobat ruins edges
I'm working with a PDF in Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, and trying to import a relatively high quality JPEG. Despite disabling any compression-related options that I can see, the edges of the imported image ...
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How to make Acrobat Reader DC remember the thumbnails between switching folders of Windows File Explorer?
I have run into an issue with Acrobat Reader DC. My current system is now a few months old, during which I've used the regular Acrobat Reader for my PDF files. It used to generate thumbnails just fine,...
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How to print only PDF pages with searched text
In a PDF Document with 200> pages, I want to print only the ones containing a given search text.
However it seems that Acrobat Reader is not able to do this. I can print only selected pages, but I can ...
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Adobe PDF Preview Handler Error in Windows Explorer
I virtualized the installation of Adobe Acrobat Pro XI v11.0.11 together with Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 v14.0.7015.1000 x86, carried out on Windows 7 Enterprise v6.1.7601 x64, making use ...
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Adobe Acrobat save PDF files to Sharepoint (Online Account)
I do the following:
Open PDF document in Adobe Acrobat XI Version 11.0.10
File > Save As...
Save to Online Account > New Account...
Check SharePoint
Type in library path example: http://sharepoint/...
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How to search and highlight long passages in a PDF file?
I made several highlights on Kindle Touch to PDF files. Kindle saves the highlighted text in a separate file, not on the PDFs themselves. I have all the text of the passages I want highlighted, what I ...
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Generating PDF bookmarks from hidden text in Microsoft Word TC fields
I have a long Word document with various sections. The section titles are shown only in the running headers, so in order to include these in the TOC (table of contents) I use a TC field at the start ...
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Embedding index in pdf files [closed]
Are there any (free) tools for building an index of a pdf and embedding it in the file in order to speed up searching?
I know Acrobat Pro has a catalog option but I was hoping for a free tool and ...
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Adobe Acrobat XI Pro: The PDF document contained image masks that were not downsampled
I am using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro to work with PDF documents, many of which I download from Google Books and read on my iPad. However, some of the Google Books PDFs are very large and slow to load on ...
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Searching a PDF file: using "AND Operator"
I was registering to the fall semester, my university offers a pdf, you pick what courses you want to take and register in on the website
I highlighted in yellow
The subject (csc, computer science)
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How to edit non-suspect recognized text in Acrobat Pro?
I have a scanned document in PDF format.
I asked Adobe Acrobat Pro XI to recognize the text.
When I copy all the text to a Word document some of the text is not recognized correctly.
Problem:
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Keyboard shortcut to highlight the text in adobe reader
What is the keyboard shortcut to highlight the text in the adobe reader on Mac?
Do some settings in adobe reader preferences need to be changed to use it?
For some strange reason I am not able to ...
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How do I copy vector graphics out of a PDF?
How do I copy a vector image out of a PDF file in Acrobat Pro? Currently what I have to do is use the Acrobat screenshot tool to make a bitmap copy, but what I want is the actual vector graphic in the ...
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McAfee blocking PDFs
I'm running Windows XP SP3, with Adobe Reader 10.1.3. I also have McAfee.
I have always been able to open PDFs in Adobe Reader with no trouble. Now, all of a sudden, I can't.
If I turn off McAfee ...
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How do I change the security level to avoid "The security level is set to High" error when merging MS docs with Adobe Acrobat X Pro?
I have MS Word 2010 and Adobe Acrobat x Pro (CS 5.5)
I get an error when I am trying to Combine two Word documents:
The Security level is set to High. Please run the application which created this ...
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What source document format can be exported to PDF and generate digital signature fields?
My team wants to send out to 3rd parties a contract in PDF format, with digital signature fields that could be signed using Adobe Reader.
Every time we add a new 3rd party to the contract, we are ...
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Creating fillable, saveable PDF in OpenOffice.org results in garbage
I've been creating beautiful fillable PDFs using OOo Writer under Ubuntu for a few years. However, I've recently been asked to make them saveable rather than just printable. So, I go to my colleague'...
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MS Word: how to keep Word-embedded PDFs in Word-generated PDF
I have a Word documented with embedded PDFs as figures I need to convert to PDF. I was expecting the Word-generated PDF document to embed the PDF figures as is (e.g. as done by Latex) and therefore ...
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Adobe acrobat doesn't launch on windows 7
I have adobe acrobat (legal copy) installed as part of the adobe suite. When I try to launch it nothing happens. I've heard from coworkers it's a common problem. What is the cause and how do I fix it?
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PDF editor, creator alternatives? [closed]
Anyone have any thoughts on the following solutions for PDF alternatives to Acrobat?:
Nuance PDF Converter 6 Professional & BlueBeam PDF Revu 7 Standard
Nuance is cheaper and seems to have all ...
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What is the best approach to make a pdf document? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Creating PDF Documents
Hi there.
I'm trying to make a PDF document, and so far I can note two things, if I make a document using Word and I try to export it to PDF, it doesn'...
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What happens to a PDF file when you save it as a static PDF file?
Does anyone know what happens to a PDF file when you save it as a static PDF file? I have a 17K PDF file that doesn’t work will with my software. But when I save it as a Static PDF using Adobe Live ...
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Split pdf file into multiple parts of specific file size
We at the office have a very low attachment limit for the large PDF's we are required to send on a day-to-day basis. This mean's we have to manually split and send the PDF in multiple different files. ...
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