Portable Document Format (PDF) is a platform-independent standard developed by Adobe System in 1993 for document exchange.
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Fix broken PDF Link in Google Scholar
I'm not quite sure if this is the right StackExchange area for this, but here we go. Does anyone know how to update or fix a PDF link in Google Scholar once it has become broken? I have co-authored ...
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pdftoppm set starting index of converted png files
I'm currently using pdftoppm to convert a pdf to png files. I have a two page pdf, and I'm using the command:
pdftoppm -png filename.pdf filename
This generates two png files "filename-1.png" and ...
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Certifying multiple PDF files simultaneously
I have a digital certificate, with which I would like to certify more than a 1000 PDF files. I am using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro. Is there any way to do it all at once? Currently I am opening every file ...
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Installing XPDF for Windows [closed]
You gave an answer a while back suggesting xpdf's image extraction as a solution to "converting" images out of PDFs, which is what I'm trying to do.
I'm currently attempting to install it on my ...
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Good way to reduce number of colors in a PDF file?
I have pages of handwritten notes that I decided to scan to a PDF. Somehow, 153 pages of notes turned into a 156.4 MB PDF file.
The notes are scanned in color because I used four different colors: ...
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How do I get custom document properties to export into PDF?
When I export a document to PDF, the Title, Author, and Subject export just fine. However the values in the "Custom Properties" tab in File | Properties, do not get exported into the PDF custom ...
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Insert a link in every page of a pdf document [closed]
How can I quickly insert a link in every page of a pdf file like this:
http://www.example.com/something?page=#{pagenum}
Where #{pagenum} is page number of the pdf.
I have a document of 1000 pages ...
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Tesseract hocr and txt at the same time, or converting from Tesseracts hocr to txt
I've been playing around with Linux OCR software, and I really like Tesseract, especially in conjunction with gsan2pdf. Tesseract v3 or greater supports outputting in the hocr format, and gscan2pdf is ...
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PDF : advanced find and replace ( with regular expressions )
I have list of questions in pdf files:
1. Question ?
A) Answer A
B) Answer B
C) Answer C
D) Answer D
Correct: A
2. Question ?
A) Answer A
B) Answer B
C) ...
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Condensing into multiple pdf pages per sheet, via command line
Let us say I want slides.pdf to contain 4 slides per page instead of one.
I can easily open a slides.pdf document under evince (the default Ubuntu document viewer)
evince slides.pdf-->Print-->Page ...
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Condensing into multiple pdf pages per sheet, via command line [duplicate]
Let us say I want slides.pdf to contain 4 slides per page.
I can easily open a slides.pdf document under evince (the default Ubuntu document viewer)
evince slides.pdf-->Print-->Page Setup--> Pages ...
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Acrobat Pro 9 - scan as simple image only PDF
Using Acrobat 9 Pro with a Canon MX310 MFC scanner. I have been unable to scan a document as a simple, good ol' grayscale image only. No matter what options I try it seems that Acrobat tries to ...
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Libre office: How to format title pages for book (avoiding the missing blank-page when pdf-file exported)
How do you set up the i, ii, iii, iv... followed by the 1, 2, 3, 4... pages of the usual book format in Libre office? What is the logic of it?
Also how do you avoid the automatic BLANK PAGE appearing ...
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Disable “This type of file can harm your computer” nag in chrome
I don't want to see that Discard/Keep dialog when downloading a pdf file in browser. I just want it to automatically save to my default location. I'm using chrome on Ubuntu 13.04.
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Vectorized pdf cropping [duplicate]
I need to crop a few pdf files, to create four pages from each source page. I know, hot to do that with ImageMagick, but it can't work with vector images, which pdf is, so the resulting quality is far ...
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Publish word files or document indexing [closed]
The situation:
-Many users create informative word documents, with screenshots.
-Currently all word files are on a file server and categorized in folders.
Possible solutions:
-Is there such a ...
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EXCEL EMBED CAPABILITY: can the embed link be manually entered?
I can manually enter a HYPERLINK into a cell, e.g.
=HyperLink("\FileLocus\FileSpec.Ext","LabelText")
but cannot similarly enter =Embed("\FileLocus\FileSpec.Ext","LabelText"). My need to do this is ...
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To analyse the space taken by one pdf page? [closed]
I have OCR-filtered by Abbyy Fileexpress PDF-document which has 777 pages.
I takes about 150 Mb memory.
There are dummy colours at the sides of the pages, which I think most of the space in memory.
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How can I programmatically renumber pages in a PDF?
As a graduate student, I come across PDFs of articles and book chapters on a daily basis. Sometimes these PDFs are paginated correctly internally (that is, if an article starts on page 67, the PDF ...
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DWG model - distribute to pages
I have a DWG file that contains all electrical layouts for my home. I believe this is autoCAD and I don't use it so I installed a free autoCAD viewer expecting to print parts of it but there is a ...
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What is the fastest and easiest way to manipulate PDF files? [closed]
I hope you guys can help me to save some time for this thing I need to do..
So, I have 25 PDF files. Each one is an exam with 50 or more questions. I'm particularly interested in some of the ...
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How can I save an Excel file as a PDF while maintaining frozen Frames?
I'm using Excel 2013. I have a spreadsheet where the first row is "frozen". So when I scroll up and down that first row stays put. It contains the titles for each row. When I save the file as a PDF, ...
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PDF files on FTP will not open correctly
Our PDF files open fine from local hard disks, and http locations. However, We are having trouble opening PDF files from a FTP server. After double-clicking on the file, the Adobe 'grey' background ...
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How can I turn a multi-page .TIF file into a PDF? [duplicate]
I have a GIGANTIC .TIF file.
I scanned in a book a few days ago and I accidentally scanned it as a multi-page .TIF. I really want to turn it into a more accessible .PDF file.
Do you have any idea ...
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“Cannot find or create the font” error in Adobe Reader
I am using PDFsharp to add text to a PDF. After the PDF is created, I open it with Adobe Reader. I'm getting a message like
Cannot find or create the font 'Wingdings'. Some characters may not ...
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Adobe Reader XI will not launch
I've got the very annoying problem that Adobe Reader XI simply will not open.
I can view PDF files in the browser just fine, but PDF files on my computer will not open. The program simply will not ...
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PDF Deminsions for Nook HD? [closed]
The full screen size is 1440x900 but what is the readable size for the Nook HD's Reader app? Just trying to make a PDF full screen without the white space on the left and right of the PDF. Is that ...
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How to have space bar scroll half the page instead
Can the space bar scroll behavior be modified in all apps (such as Firefox, pdf viewers, etc.)? It's dizzying to have space bar scroll the full page -- I often lose track of what I'm reading.
I ...
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Collating scanned PDFs from 2 folders
I have the front and back side scans of about 1000 separate documents in 2 sepatate folders.
I'm looking to create a batch operation that combines the front scan and its corresponding back side scan ...
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Word to PDF Conversion - large object file
Using 2011 Word for Mac, I created a word document with embedded a few JPG of 40kB each. The saved Word (.docx) file is only 300kB, but if I save as PDF, the resultant file is 4MB - too large to post ...
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Can a keyword be in a PDF Annots array?
The JHOVE parser for PDF, which I maintain, will sometimes find a non-dictionary object in a PDF's Annots array. According to section 8.4.1 of the PDF spec, the Annots array holds "an array of ...
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How do I remove the header & footer from a PDF?
How do I remove the header & footer from a PDF? I was successful in opening the PDF in PDF Viewer Plus, selecting crop, all pages, .25" top and bottom. This removes the viewing of the text, ...
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Change search history pdf xchange viewer
By default, pdf xchange viewer shows the last 10 search terms. Is there any way to change it so that you can either decrease or increase how many search term are showed?
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trying to create a new pdf from scratch with adobe acrobat
I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI and when here's the prompt I'm initially presented with:
I click on "Create PDF" and I get an "Open" dialog.
I figure maybe it'll create the PDF when it doesn't ...
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How do I remove links from a pdf?
I printed a web page into a pdf on my mac. How do I get rid of the links in it? I tried re-printing the pdf into another one to no avail.
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How could I remove the advertisement of Foxit Reader 6.0?
How could I remove the advertisement of Foxit Reader 6.0?
Thanks :)
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Long term archiving of scanned documents
I am trying to turn my office paperless, as far is permitted by the law.
Premises:
PDF/A-3 is the best format for scanned documents.
Tesseract OCR is the best free OCR engine.
A document could be ...
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Printing to physical printer via a PDF printer
I am looking for a solution to print to a physical printer via a PDF printer (eg. Bullzip).
I would need this because Bullzip has the possibility to use a predefined pdf document as the background of ...
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Formatting pdf for kindle
I started with a scan of a book which was a two-column PDF, I then used the gs methods outlined in this thread to put the PDF into single page format, which worked great. This looks good on the PC ...
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Export PDF bookmarks as txt file [duplicate]
I only found utility to modify PDF bookmarks, but I was wondering if there is a software that can export all bookmarks of a PDF file into a .txt file ?
I'm using Microsoft Windows
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Remove PDF margins and print 2 pages per side
I print out a lot of pdf articles, and I'd like to use less paper by printing 2 pages per side. But due to the large margins---both from the original pdf file and added by the printing process---the ...
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Printing shipping labels on the Canada Post site [closed]
When I am on the Canada Post site for shipping labels and put all the information in and send it the pdf file does not show up but I get charged for the label as if I did. I tried everything Canada ...
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Printing slides via lpr: How to get 4-up in landscape correctly?
If I have some pages of text, I can use lpr -o sides=one-sided -o landscape -o number-up=4 -o number-up-layout=btlr -o fitplot -P myprinter to print the text 4-up landscape. The layout is
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Print 20page PDF (with 2 inch empty margins) 110% magnified (+10%)
Conference proceedings and some other PDF documents often have too large magins and very tiny font. How can I print a 20 page PDF in magnified view (like it can be done on most copier machines)
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Groupwise Combine Multiple-Part Messages
I have a copier with scanner that will break large scans into multi-part uuencoded pdf files and email them to the user. The user then gets each part in and email with subject part 1/3, part 2/3, and ...
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Extract full permission information from PDF
I want to extract all permission information from a PDF (preferably on the Linux command-line). I know the user and the owner passwords. pdfinfo only shows the state of four permissions:
print
copy
...
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Can I change the settings for the Save as PDF function in Word 2010?
When I save a Word document as PDF, the PDF file seems to get a standard "initial view" setting. Is it possible to change that so that created PDF files open with Magnification=Fit Page?
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I need an easy way to 'google' through all my PDF files - anything like this exist? [duplicate]
Here is my scenario and system:
System: Win-7, 64-bit.
Scenario: Very simply, I have a folder on my dropbox account, titled \Papers. Within this folder, I have a lot of PDF files, and I have even ...
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Customise Okular to modify highlight tool properties
I am using Okular as my pdf reader on Linux. I want to know how I can modify the color of the highlight permanently. I know I can modify the saturation of the color used by highlight tool by right ...
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Table of content is not working in pdf while saving from ms word
I have created Table of content in document file and its working fine but when i am saving it as PDF file table of content is not working in PDF its trying to open the docx file.
Please let me know ...
