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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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Button to go back to the original PDF

I am creating a PDF document, and I would to set a button which the reader could click and it would take them back to the last document. For example, if I open a first document, and then click on a ...
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Splitting a PDF into PDFs of various sizes

I recently upgraded from Adobe Acrobat 6 to 9 and I can't seem to figure outhow to split a large PDF into individual PDFs of various sizes (say, pages 1-3, 4-11, 12, etc.). I'm aware that A-PDF ...
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Acrobat Reader- How to open the same document in separate windows?

How to open the same document in separate windows? One solution would be to rename it, but is there other better solution? I have Adobe 9.4.6 and Windows 7
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How to remove a watermark from a PDF file?

I thought this would be a simple task, but it turned out the other way. The watermark is the very same (overlapping, but transparent) image on every single page. I created the PDF file myself (so no ...
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How can I make all pages in a PDF the same size?

I have a pdf with different size pages. The first page is 579.275 by 402.547 points. The remaining pages are 612 by 792 pts (letter). I would like to have all the pages be letter size. The output ...
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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 make a searchable PDF document from a scan AND a source Word document?

Well, I have a scanned PDF with some slightly changes made by hand and a source file. I wish to make a PDF, which would be searchable (based on the text from the source, the changes would remain as ...
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What options are available for rendering a embedded adobe PDF in a page frame?

What options are available for rendering a embedded adobe PDF in a page frame? Options I would like to set, if anyone knows what they are: Fit page to width (not just height) Dont show left nav ...
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How can I produce a single document for a multitude of formats and screen sizes?

I've been writing a Word document that I want to distribute online. However, I want the document to be accessible to everyone, including People who want to print it on A4/Letter from PDF. Note that ...
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How can I create a PDF with form fields from a collaboratively edited source document?

I want to create a PDF document with a fill-in form. The source of the document is right now Google Docs, so that my team can edit it collaboratively with ease. However, Google docs doesn't support ...
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How to put a bunch of different types of documents into a single Word doc?

I am working on a long document that will have to include JPEGs, certain pages of PDF docs, bits and pieces from various Excel spreadsheets. I need all this to end up in a Word document. I suppose ...
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Removing a line from a PDF document

I have a series of simple PDF documents that have a heading in them that I need to remove. The documents contain actual text, they're not silly Photo-based PDFs. I don't know what they were produced ...
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Tagging PDF files on CD/DVD and opening them with the associated viewer

Simple thing. I have a lot - and I do mean, A LOT (if it was possible to colour this in red, it probably would be red as well) of PDF/dejavu/word/plain jpeg files; mostly articles from my professional ...
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Selection Issues with a PDF from a Word document

I have a long Word document that has a running footer. When I try to copy and paste across pages in the PDF generated from this document, the behavior of this footer is unpredictable--sometimes it is ...
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How do I create a .PDF from selected pages of an existing .PDF?

The question is simple: I want to create a .PDF from pages 30-50 of an already existing 100 page .PDF. What would be the easiest and most professional way to do this?
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Cleaning text in PDFs using OCR… or “There should definitely be a way to do this”

I get a lot of PDFs from other people consisting of scanned old documents. Unfortunately, sometimes the text on the scans, though legible, looks grainy and is hard to read. What I've been able to do ...
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Is there a free batch .doc to .pdf converter out there?

I need to convert roughly 200 .doc files to .pdf. I know Microsoft Office and Open Office can both save to .pdf, but I do not want to do this manually. Does anyone know any FREEWARE apps that will do ...
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Is there a freeware program for editing the text stream of PDFs?

PDFs are a great archive format for scanned images, but Acrobat does not allow you to edit the text layer of the document (the part that can copy and paste from) leaving you with just the raw OCR. Are ...
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Reading line for Ubuntu users

Normally when I read a book I use a bookmark held horizontally under the current line I'm reading to help me keep my eyes on the right spot. When I read a PDF or other document on my computer I would ...
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Nitro PDF Express removing already outputted files when I cancel it

Im converting lots of .doc files into .pdf using Nitro PDF Express. The program isn't finish converting the 37 files yet maybe 10 are converted and are in the output directory already. But when I ...
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1answer
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ANy website for Uploading , reading PDF , doc files (more than 10GB) [closed]

I have lot of ebooks collections on my hardrive, but thats on my home computer. Every time I need ebooks i find on internet and then download it as sometimes I am too lazy to search the whole bunch of ...
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Is it possible to make a hyperlink to a certin line of a pdf or doc?

I'm looking for an open-source tool that can make a hyperlink to a certain place within a doc or pdf rather than the file itself. So after click the link , I can directly see the content I'm ...
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7answers
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Highlighting words in a pdf document

I'm trying to highlight words in a pdf document. However, behind the words, there is written in big letters "DO NOT COPY" all throughout the document. Sometimes when I try to highlight words it is ...
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HTML/PDF to DOC(X) in Linux command line?

I need to convert PDF or HTML+CSS into DOC or DOCX under Linux, it can be from the command line or with a scripting language. Any idea?
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4answers
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Utility to flip all pages in a PDF

I have a PDF file (generated using the Save As PDF function in MS Word 2007) where I would like to flip all pages in the document (rotate 180 degrees - so that they will be upside down). I do not have ...
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Converting .doc files to .pdf

Anybody aware of a piece of software which could do MS Office .doc to .pdf conversion for me? I already tried OpenOffice but it appeared to be rather slow and resource-hungry for large documents.