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A linux PDF reader that supports unicode characters
I use the default document viewer in Fedora. But for some languages such as Persian I can't copy texts. When I copy them and paste them somewhere, I get some irrelevant characters like f! O I K Q- ! ...
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Enable brower shortcuts in a browser pdf
So I have recently tried to start learning shortcuts for certain commands and I have gotten pretty proficient and reliant on the shortcuts that I do know. Now, when I am unable to use my shortcuts, it ...
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Scrollbar bug in the pdf viewer of chrome 15.0.874.121
When I read a PDF inside of chrome and use the scrollwheel, the scrollbar stays at it's previous position. If I hover on the scrollbar after having mousewheeled, the scrollbar updates its position ...
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PDF rendering of images seems to vary from viewer to viewer with blurring?
I'm generating PDF figures in Adobe Illustrator CS5 that include embedded images. I've noticed that the images look dramatically different when I display the same PDF in Preview, Skim or Adobe Reader ...
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PowerPoint 2010 opens link to PDF file in Notepad
When I try to open a PDF file in a Powerpoint 2010 presentation on my laptop, I get a dialog like this:
Opening: path/filename.pdf
Some files can contain viruses or otherwise be harmful to ...
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PDF reader with scroll-bar highlighting of search term occurrence (like in Chrome)?
Is there a PDF reader that highlights the occurrence(s) of a search term in the scroll bar, similar to what the Google chrome browser does (which displays small yellow bars in the scrollbar)?
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Tools for presenting PDF slides with presenter notes on second display
I made a presentation using the latex beamer class. Now I have a problem displaying notes only on my screen while presenting the slides to the audience. Beamer notes produce very wide pdf pages, each ...
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Windows PDF viewer that auto-refreshes PDF when compiling with pdflatex
I'm writing a LaTeX document and am using the command line to compile the LaTeX code into a PDF document. In Linux I would just open the PDF with Evince PDF Viewer, and whenever I recompiled the LaTeX ...
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Change default viewer in eclipse/texlipse
Using Eclipse + Texlipse (LaTeX plugin) on Ubuntu 11.04 -- though it should apply to other OSs too.
In the project explorer, double clicking on a PDF file will open it with the "System Editor" or ...
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2 Page view in Preview shows the right page on the left and left page on the right?
I have a pdf that I am reading in Preview and I would like to view it in 2 page mode as many pages reference illustrations on the next page. However, when I enable 2 page mode, the left page is put on ...
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Proper PDF reader for Windows Mobile [closed]
I have a bunch of PDF papers that I need to read, and I travel quite a bit. I was hoping that there was some sort of good software available for reading PDFs on my Windows Mobile (6.1) phone....I ...
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Search special characters or short mathematical symbols in pdf files
I have Adobe Reader, Okular and Document Viewer as pdf readers. The papers I read are often texts with mathematical formulae, generated by LaTeX.
But it seems that searching special characters or ...
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PDF Reader Restore last session [closed]
I use PDF's all the time for ebooks, research pappers etc. and i have the following problem:
I always open multiple tabs (i'm a FoxIt user) in a session. When a close the reader, in the next session i ...
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How to open 2 Adobe Reader instances?
I would like to see simultaneously pages in the beginning of the document and at the end. I can do that by opening the same document on different windows. But when I try to do so, the first instance ...
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Why poor display quality in all PDF readers except those from Adobe?
When I read PDF files with Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat Pro, the display quality is superb. However, for the same files, other PDF readers like Foxit Reader, Sumatra PDF Reader, etc show poor ...
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Any PDF reader that shows grids?
I know Acrobat Pro shows grids for PDF files. Is there any other PDF reader that shows grids?
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Adobe Reader renders Times fonts fuzzy [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Why do fonts look messed up in Adobe Acrobat?
The first row are times fonts, rendered by PDF XChange Viewer( or Sumatra, Evince, their rendering are almost the same) and ...
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PDF-XChange Viewer, pdflatex, Windows XP Pro SP3
Howto make pdfxcview.exe not lock .pdf files
or
force pdflatex ignore locks (and thus be able to overwrite .pdf files) ?
See also this thread
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how do we know how many pages a pdf file is within the Chrome browser?
is there anyway we could say know how many pages a pdf file is within the Chrome browser? like say because i often like to open my pdf files in chrome and its realy annoying that i can't know how many ...
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Quickly view PDF files in directory
Is there a way to view/browse PDF files/graphs quickly while flipping through them in Ubuntu Narwhal (kind of like in OS X's Finder where it shows an "image" of the pdf when you select it without ...
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There is a pdf viewer which rotates the pdf files when you open them?
The questions is in the title :)
SO, there is a pdf viewer which rotates the pdf files when you open them?
I have lots of scanned pdf files which needs to be rotated when I open them to verify ...
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Extracting background images from a PDF file?
I have a PDF file containing maps of the building I work in, here:
http://www.libsys.und.edu/dev/FloorPlans_All.pdf
The original source files have been lost, and I've been asked to extract the map ...
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Browser error when loading PDFs with Adober Reader (Ubuntu 10.04, FF 4.01)
Browser cannot load PDFs with Adobe Reader installed and effective as default viewer.
Could not launch Adobe Reader 9.4.2.
Please make sure it exists in PATH
variable in the environment. If ...
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Software to read PDFs with inverted colors (Windows)
I sometimes want to read a long PDF file in a computer, but because white background I can read only a few pages until my eyes weep.
Is there any software to invert colors of a PDF (PDF converter, ...
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Quickly jump between two or more points in a PDF
When reading an ebook PDF with a hundred pages I need to jump quickly to different sections of the book and go back.
The problem is after I jump to that section there is no quick way to go back ...
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PDF files open with a dark overlay?
Windows XP
Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 with the latest updates
This is one of my user's machines. They have basic user rights, non-admin. Opening a PDF file renders the document, but with a dark overlay. ...
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Dual Screen PDF Reader
I've got a tablet with two equal sized screens that runs Windows 7. How can I rotate the screens easily without a button to do it with? A batch file or a utility? One to turn it sideways. Another to ...
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PDF viewer that can invert all colors (not only text)
Because I am reading lots of pdfs from the screen, the white background make my eyes tired. Is there a decent lightweight pdf reader that can invert colors of everything on the page?
I have tried ...
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PDF reader for the CLI
I'm looking for a PDF reader that I can use over SSH in a terminal, and have it running in screen. Does such a thing exist?
Ideally I'd like at least a less-esque pager but with some PDF formatting, ...
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Is there a way to make Acrobat 10 change size of the Note icon?
For Highlighting and the Note's icon, I can click on it, and choose to view the Property bar and change its color, icon image, etc, and then say, "Use as Default Property", so now all the highlighting ...
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Why using Acrobat 10 resaving a PDF file that was 4MB will become 3MB?
I had some PDF files and just try to open it and do some highlighting using Acrobat 10 (also called Adode Reader X)...
After highlighting, I save the file (using a different filename), and now the ...
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Convert PDF to exe to raise security
I have some PDFs I want convert all to .exe files and put them into folder on my CD and my customers run .exe files instead of PDF and for security reasons.
so I have tried "pdf2exe" tools but I need ...
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PDF reader, aside from Acrobat's, that supports 3D images
I have some PDFs with 3D images that I need to use. They show up on Adobe Acrobat Reader nicely, but I'd like to have another reader that will handle them. So far, I've tried Foxit, Evince, and ...
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How popular are PDF readers? [closed]
How popular, in terms of availability on private desktops/laptops and office PC's, are PDF readers? In other words, what percent of machines can open PDF files without fuss?
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PDF viewer for Windows 32-bit that can hide wide margins
I view a lot of PDFs on my wide display (1280x800).
I want to view books with two pages on screen at once, but some PDFs have huge margins, so only ~60-70% of screen space is used even if I hide the ...
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How does a PDF prevent itself from being printed?
I have a PDF for my camera's manual, and Adobe Reader won't let me print it (the print option is grayed out). SumatraPDF also does the same thing (it even says print denied). How does the PDF prevent ...
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Disabling Chrome's built-in PDF viewer [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Stop PDFs from displaying inside Google Chrome
Chrome now has a built-in pdf viewer, and it's one of the worst I've seen. You can't even save the file you're viewing! Is ...
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Disabled annotation tools in Skim
Here's a portion of the toolbar in Skim
In the Add Note section, why are the following tools disabled (dimmed)?
Add New Highlight (A in the yellow box)
Add New Underline (red line under A)
Add ...
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Okular doesn't allow me to do reviews on certain pdfs
As the title says I found a particular pdf in wich okular's review function is not working. Whenever I press F the review menu doesn't show, and by trying to access it via tools -> menu it looks like ...
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How to embed fonts into PDF
I have a pdf file, and I want to know if I can embed/subset all its fonts into PDF file itself? Is there any tool supporting this operation?
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Unblurred/black-and-white PDF display
Is there a way to display PDF documents in black and white, not grayscale, i.e. so that every pixel is either shown as all black or all white? In particular, that will work for PDFs whose content is ...
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any pdf reader has a book-mark feature?
Is there any software for Windows or web based application that would allow me to open pdf and before closing create a bookmark so I know where to 'open my book' next time?
I can see that there is a ...
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adobe acrobat reader - how to save your place?
I'm trying to read an ebook in adobe acrobat reader and I want to save the position I'm at between computer reboots / closing reader.
How can I save the page I'm at, or even better auto save?
Is ...
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How to create a PDF menu
How can I create a menu in a PDF file, similar to this one:
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/10minutes/assets/10minutes-on-the-cloud.pdf
The menu appears when you hover over the top of the page. It works ...
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Is there a way to search a PDF for non-alphanumeric characters (e.g., the integral sign or greek letters)?
I read a lot of technical papers and textbooks in PDF that use standard mathematical notation, and sometimes I'd like to be able to find where a symbol is in the text. The only reason I think this ...
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Linux: lightweight pdf reader which can bookmark where I left off reading?
I am using Arch Linux on a notebook, which has a 4GB SSD drive. so I have to save disk space/storage by any possible means.
Reading technological PDFs are really painful when you have to memorize ...
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Where does okular store it's metadata
I want to know where does okular store it's metadata (highlighting and other type of annotations).
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Inconsistencies in PDFs files depending on the viewer
I've noticed some details in PDF files, such as thin lines, render differently depending on the Viewer:
Preview (Apple)
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Is there a way to save them in order to make them ...
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Checking a PDF for exploits
Is there any way I can check a PDF for exploits? I am on Linux most of the times but I sometimes have to read PDF's on Windows also, so I have to be extra sure that the PDF is clean. I use Acrobat ...
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PDF reader feature (notes)
So when I read papers in hard copy, I like to be able to mark the line that I am reading currently using a notecard, which covers up things below the line that I am reading. This keeps me from being ...
