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MS Word to PDF. Corrupted tables borders

I´m having problems while saving a MS Word document (.doc OR .docx) to PDF (by saving it directly as PDF from MS Word, printing it with the Adobe printer, etc) on how the tables borders are displayed. ...
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How do I create a PDF that does NOT embed the used fonts?

Using MS Word 2010, or a free program, how do I create a pdf that does not include the used font(s)? I need this to test a feature in GhostScript.
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Using GhostScript, pdf to tif, -sSUBSTFONT flag

in a test of the GhostScript 9.05 64bit DLL, I'm trying to trigger the use of -sSUBSTFONT=path. To that end, I created a PDF in Word, used the Calibri font, then moved the Calibri font to a place it ...
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How to crop in Acrobat saving the page format?

i want to crop the first paragraph of many documents to create each summary but i have to save the a4 format of each page. When i crop a page, i wish that the cropped area turns to white and doesn't ...
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Delete extra page from PDF used for my resume

I use OpenOffice.org to make my résumés and cover letters and there's always an extra page at the bottom that forces me to have to copy all of the contents of it to a new document. How can I remove ...
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Can't save checkmarks in a PDF file [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What's the rationale behind Fillable PDF's not being able to be saved? Save data typed into PDF Form I was sent a PDF form with some input check boxes. When I ...
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Manage Large E-Book Archive

I have a very large e-book archive (approx. 1TB) including various file formats eg. PDF, DJVU, MOBI and EPUB. I put them in different folders by subject eg. Engineering, Programming etc. But after ...
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How to save an HTML document in one file on Windows?

I wrote a product manual using HTML that includes images and I wanted to save it in one file that I could send for customers for viewing. Someone suggested converting it to a PDF but the problem is ...
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Multimedia PDF (Audio, Video and Links) That works on Desktop and iOS

We've got a client that wants to have a PDF that has embedded audio, video and links. Using Acrobat Pro 9.x I've been able to embed all three no problem. They all work/playback if I use Acrobat ...
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Quality loss during conversion between pdf and djvu

Is there some quality loss during conversion between pdf and djvu? For example, when using djvu2pdf and pdf2djvu among other applications. If yes, how can the quality be preserved as much as ...
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iOS (iPhone/iPad): downloading a big PDF via Safari doesn't work [closed]

I've a small site designed to sell a HTTP-downloadable, ~300 MB PDF, No-DRM, page-scanned images e-book (download the test copy here http://test.magicmedicine.eu/get/ac123457965d0d4b4d17557a73cf2fe8 ...
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Batch resize and compress PDF files

I need a way to size down and compress batches of PDF files. I'd prefer to do this on Windows, but Linux would be fine if it meant a smoother workflow. I know that there's programs such as NitroPDF ...
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Verifying the text content of PDFs

My website has a file repository, that includes text search - it not only searches the files' titles, but also their set properties and contents. The problem is, some of the files have not been saved ...
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Title of PDF changes to lowercase when saving [closed]

When naming a pdf, no matter what case is typed, the title is saved in all lowercase letters.
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How to properly copy/paste code from .pdf to a new file open on terminal?

I have a pdf containing the following code: #!/bin/sh echo echo “**** Pulling changes into Dev [Hub’s post-update hook]” echo case “ $1 ” in If I copy and then paste that code on my terminal, after ...
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OCR Image based PDF [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Extracting text from a .PDF scanned book How to do OCR on a PDF document? I've got a >200 page pdf manual that was produced by scanning hard copy. I'd like to convert ...
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Pdf Password Protection

I am trying to password Protect Mass Pdf Collection, One password Per Pdf File. But how can i keep track of Password. I want to set a random and unique pass to every file. And the password will be in ...
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How can I convert PDF ebooks to Epub format? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Convert PDF to ePub I have some digital books in PDF format but now I want to read them on my iPhone so I have to convert them to ePub format, could anyone please tell ...
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managing pdf archive using Mendeley or Zotero or something else

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I am trying sync my pdf archive (of manuscripts) between several computers (OS X, Linux, and Windows). I am currently using the Mendeley Desktop ...
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How to further optimize PDF filesize?

I've been combining PDFs into a single file with Acrobat X Standard and have been able to get a 30-page document down to ~8MB. I've been seeing numerous similar documents that are just as, if not more ...
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Is text in pdf file is protected?

I have a pdf file written in Vietnamese language. I open it with Foxit Reader and able to read it in Vietnamese. If I copy the text to Word I can't read the text in Vietnamese any more. Also, when I ...
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Batch-OCR many PDFs

This has been discussed a year ago here: Batch OCR for many PDF files (not already OCRed)? Is there any way to batch OCR PDFs that haven't been already OCRed? This is, I think, the current state of ...
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Word to PDF and PDF to Word

When we convert Word to PDF files we get good result – like any kind of alignment and pictures will be kept. But when we convert a PDF to word, most of the time we get very ugly results, especially ...
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How to format two column OCR PDF into one column

I am having trouble reading a PDF on my Kindle because the OCR text is displayed in two columns per page. (IE The book was scanned two pages at a time, them OCR'd.) How can I format this into one ...
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Gibberish when printing PDFs

Sometimes when printing PDFs on my Windows XP with an HP photosmart 2410 printer the text becomes gibberish. It's kind of hard to describe, so I've scanned in an affected page below: (not very good ...
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How do I save a pdf file to Google Drive?

If I have opened a PDF file in Chrome with its plug-in Chrome PDF viewer, how can I save it to Google Drive directly instead of downloading it first and uploading it? Is there an extension that could ...
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How to export a slide from Keynote with transparent background?

I'm using an Apple Keynote to do a bit of graphics and I'd like to export that to a PNG file with a transparent background. Any idea on how to do this? I was thinking of exporting do .pdf (which is a ...
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How to get the Unicode code and symbol name for some characters in a PDF file?

I have a PDF file with some Unicode characters (see picture). I can copy these characters to clipboard and insert in, for example, MS Word and I see the character as a single square with a question ...
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Vector graphics formats: SVG , EPS or PDF [closed]

How does the vector graphics formats svg , eps and pdf compare against each other(Quality, filesize etc)? If I can generate(eg matplotlib) plot in any of the above formats, which format should I ...
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Creating PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat X Pro and inserting vector graphics

I'm trying to create PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat X Pro. I just realized that it can only do forms etc but not basic document editing. So it wants me to import already formatted word file (for ...
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Are there Windows aplications that can automatically create PDF bookmarks / table of contents? [closed]

Is there is an application that can automate the creation of table of contents / bookmarks in a pdf file for windows? Something like this Mac application Please note, I am asking about creating ...
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Can I use ImageMagick to remove the password from a PDF?

If I have a PDF and I have its password, I can merely send it to a PDF printer to get a new PDF with the same contents and no password. The process is not exactly painless though (Ubuntu's inbuilt PDF ...
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Signing allowed, but signature box greyed out

I have a PDF file that is "secured", but signing is "Allowed" in the document properties. However in Acrobat X Pro the digital signature box is greyed out and I cannot sign the document. How do I put ...
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How to highlight a text in pdf opened in web browser

When pdf file is opened in browser, extensions like Diggo cannot highlight the text in the pdf. Are there any extensions or ways in which this can be achieved? Or opening a pdf using a application ...
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Searching a virtual printer, that sends emails

I need a software, that emulates a printer, converts the printed documents to PDF/TIFF and send it via eMail to a specified address (for windows). The virtual printer / PDF conversion is possible ...
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how to recover forgotten “owner password” of pdf file

I need to resize a pdf file to crop its surrounding white border. I can crop it using PDF-Shuffler on Ubuntu. But cant save the change, because of owner password protection. When i try to open that ...
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Portable pdf-viewer where I can configure which external movie player is used

I have a latex beamer presentation (pdf-file), where I included a video file via \href{run: video.mpeg}{launch}. Clicking on launch in the resulting pdf will start the video with an external player. ...
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editing PDFs (find and replace ' ')

What method/program could I use to perform a find and replace to turn ' ' into ' ' in a PDF file? I can use either linux or windows solution. EDIT: The addon for OpenOffice Draw to access ...
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Generating a pdf using data rows from excel and an image as the template with placeholders

I have lots of data rows in excel, each row has columns such as first name, last name, gender...etc. I also have an image as the template, I would like to define some placeholders on it. And then for ...
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How to simulate smartphone screen on my Windows PC?

I am considering buying a smartphone. One of the primary uses of the device would be reading of e-books in PDF format. I'd like to experiment with various combinations of display resolution and ...
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Getting N jpeg images from N-Pages PDF

I've a PDF composed by N pages. I want to convert this PDF in N jpeg images (by command line, no Php, Java or other programming languages). I'm trying to do this with GHOSTSCRIPT but the output ...
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Foxit reader offset page numbers and jump between pages

I have a PDF book with page numbers that are wrong. This is because the contents section is not numbered in the same way as the rest of the book. Is there anyway to offset the goto function in foxit ...
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How to open a PDF from a window command line and do a search with a string containing blanks?

Some have mentioned opening Adobe acrobat from a command line and searching for a particular string, and it works. My issue is if the string contains blanks. What is the syntax if the string you are ...
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MS Powerpoint pdf taking very long to print

I received a few pdf files from my co-workers and I'm trying to print them. The problem is that these files are taking unbelievably long to print (up to 30 min on a 50 pages file). I know that these ...
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Is there any pdf reader that supports word searching with regular expression?

I sometimes would like to search some particular words in a pdf file,however there are always a lot of unwanted words for me.For instance, when I would like to find "scala" in a pdf paper,I always ...
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ignore pagination in aix

I'm trying to generate a report which has the property Ignore Pagination = TRUE, in Windows works fine, but in the client server (AIX), the pdf report only shows a white vertical line in the center of ...
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Are there any PDF readers for Windows that ignore any restrictions set by the author? [closed]

Are there any PDF readers for Windows that ignore all the pseudo-DRM restrictions on saving, copy&paste, etc. set by the author? I have already tried: Adobe Reader Foxit Sumatra Evince
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Fatal error: Acrobat failed to connect to DDE server

This is my problem: I can always open one PDF document in Acrobat Reader from Explorer, and sometimes more (especially soon after Windows restart). However, after some time it starts to fail: when I ...
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Can Copy and Paste from PDF have no “forced” hyphenation?

I found that if using Acrobat 10 to copy and paste to my gmail, the text will be all messed up, but if I use Mac's Preview app to copy and paste to gmail, then the text is 99% good -- with the heading ...
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Preserve multiple hyperlinks per shape in PDF

I have several Visio diagrams describing our processes (in Visio Professional 2010). Some of the diagrams reference other processes. In Visio, I'm able to add multiple hyperlinks to a shape. I ...

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