Questions tagged [pdf-reader]
A PDF reader is an application which can read and display Portable Document Format files.
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PDF reader with inverted colors or invert colors only on one app?
I'm new to OSX and have a copy of OSX Yosemite.
I really like iBooks and Preview, but I need a night theme or the option to invert colors as in Linux with Gnome's Document Viewer.
I'm aware that I ...
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Why can't I search a certain PDF in Mac OS X, but I can in Windows using Adobe Reader?
I have the PDF "GNU Image Manipulation Program: User Manual"
downloaded to both my Windows PC, and my iMac OS X v.10.9.5.
The search function works perfectly in my PC, using Adobe Reader,
but it ...
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Multiple Image PDFs into a larger single page PDF
I work with CAD drawings that have been segmented into multiple PDFs for a specific floor sections of a building. I would like to CROP the unnecessary data and assemble the images into a single, same ...
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How to disable title bar advertisment in foxit pdf reader 7
I am using foxit pdf reader for a long time and i always disabled the title bar advertisement using this method. But recently I updated the foxit pdf reader to 7.0.6 and after that the advertisement ...
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Default .pdf-viewer for Filezilla using Mint/Ubuntu
I am currently using Filezilla 3.7.3. on Linux Mint 17 and have trouble with the default .pdf-viewer. Ones I double-click on a .pdf-file in the embedded file browser, GIMP instead of okular/evince/...
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Increment a number in a PDF
Is there a way to increment a number in a PDF everytime it is opened/saved? I have a 'mechanic report' PDF which need to be filled with worked hours and what was done and additionally i need this ...
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Rotate PDF pages in different directions
My three PDF readers
Soda
Foxit
Adobe
can't rotate a pdf page: I want to rotate page1 to the left and page2 to the right. I can only rotate all pages in the same direction.
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How to make expanding bookmarks in PDF Xchange viewer
I use PDF Xchange viewer for all my pdfs and I love how the bookmarks expand like folders, but I don't know how to make them like that myself. Can anyone explain how to do that?
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Can I Query a Pdf Reader If It's On The Last Page?
I'm writing a wrapper shell-script to do the following:
Searches a directory for .pdf/.djv files.
makes an ordered "playlist" of files
Opens 1st file in a pdf reader.
Automatically change to the next ...
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"Autoscroll" Pdfs one by one from a "play-list"/directory
Is there a way to achieve this:
open multiple .pdf from a "playlist"/given directory one by one in the same window, with auto-scrolling enabled?
(Explanation: 1st pdf opens- autoscrolls to the end- ...
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Adobe Reader out of memory error after Windows wake up
I opened a PDF file by Adobe Reader. I put Windows on sleep mode. After I woke Windows up, Adobe Reader shows only some recent pages (all of other pages are blank) and reports out of memory error on ...
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How do I read a PDF in 2 simultaneous views (split view) / Mac
Sometimes I need to see and read two different parts of the same document at the same time
(e.g. reading the explanation of a chart while viewing it). How can I do that? Is there any PDF reader with ...
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Dual page view in MuPDF?
I am really liking using MuPDF. Is there a way to enable a dual page view? Or, does it just display whatever was the original formatting/specification during the creation of the PDF?
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Have to kill pdf reader process to see edits in pdf file
I make a pdf file via MikTeX, and open it with the built-in Windows 8 pdf reader. I then close the reader. I edit my source, recompile, and open the new pdf. What I see does not have the edits. I ...
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Term for the text editor feature to have fixed pages
PDF viewers and word documents are separated by pages. If you wanted to, you can view page by page like a book.
For coding purposes, I think it'd be more efficient for me to see code like that- page ...
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10.8 Is there a way to jump to the top or bottom of current page when viewing a PDF in Preview?
To be clear, I am not asking for function right, which sends me to the end of document or space, which scrolls one screen height. If I am viewing page 31, I want to jump so that the top of 31 is at ...
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How can I access the history list in FoxIt Reader?
In Preferences → History, Foxit Reader has the settings Maximum number of documents in history list and Maximum number of documents in Recent Documents list. The former can be set as high as 200, and ...
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When does Windows 8 Reader app save the current position in the opened PDF file?
I'm reading a lot of PDF books in the built-in Windows 8 Reader app (now in Windows 8.1). Sometimes it saves the current position when I close a file but sometimes not. Can anybody tell me when this ...
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Keyboard layout Issue in Word 2003-2007 entering accent in Greek Keyboard
The problem occurs when I try to enter accent (tonos) in MS WORD 2003 (SP3) with a Greek keyboard layout,
When this happens I can't change the input language or the direction (neither the
Alt+Shift ...
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How do I use latexmk with MuPDF as the PDF previewer?
MuPDF doesn't support automatic reloading. How do I use it as a document previewer for latexmk1?
1: Example call: latexmk -pdf -pvc doc.tex
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Red ink for Windows 8 Reader App
I'm using the Windows 8 Reader app on a Surface Pro, and I really like the feature that enables you to mark up a PDF with the stylus. Is there any way to change the color of the digital "ink" created ...
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How come Chrome opens some PDFs directly while DL others?
It would be nice to just view the pdf within chrome without saving it in the download folder (in Mac, I don't know how it is in other OS'). After a while you get tones of material in your download ...
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Moving text annotations in Xournal
Is it possible to move text annotations in Xournal? If so how?
Seems to be a trivial task, but I don't see how to do it.
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Always open PDFs at 100 %?
Is it possible to configure adobe viewer to always open pdf documents at size 100 %? Now it opens documents at about 160 % for no appparent reason.
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pdf viewer / reader with multi-core support? [closed]
Which pdf reader/viewer supports more than one core to render and search through pdf files?
evince does not
okular does not
Adobe Reader does not
Xpdf crashes on all my tested pdf documents (...
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PDF reader which supports additional "local" bookmarks
What I mean? As I often read several PDF books at a time, usually non-related, it would help greatly if I could place a bookmark or two marking where I left last time, or where I found some ...
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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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pdf reader for Windows which has night mode? [duplicate]
Looking for a pdf reader for Windows which has a night mode which is reading white text on black background. The closest I found is Adobe Reader with accessibility mode and high contrast but it has ...
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How to open pdf.js in Firefox via chrome:// URL?
Firefox components supposedly being accessible by chrome urls (aka. "chrome:// protocol"). How do I open the now built-in pdf.js pdf reader?
I would like to open local pdf files but does not want to ...
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How can I attach multiple PDF files to a single email directly from a PDF viewer?
We use an indexing program (an add-in to our business software) that selects PDFs for viewing from among over 60,000 documents. It's not easy for end users to figure out where each opened PDF is ...
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Adobe Reader Wants Sensitive Email Details
When I run Adobe Reader, it tells me:
Either there is no default mail client or the current mail
client cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft
Outlook and set it as the default ...
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Quickly browse through many PDFs
I have hundreds of PDF files that I would like to browse through rather rapidly while viewing them at (nearly) full-screen, preferably while zoomed in to a particular area. What I need is the ...
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Checking bookmarks in pdfs in a mass quantity in Adobe Acrobat Pro
Say if I have 100 pdf's and I want to quickly check to see if they are all bookmarked without opening them individually, is there a tool to go about this efficiently?
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How to read PDFs on Linux so the white margin around the page is automatically cropped?
I have another device, an eInk ebook reader (Onyx Boox), that has this wonderful feature, "auto-crop", that auto-detects the white margins in pdf (with a given degree of "aggression"), and zooms out ...
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Windows 8 PDF Reader: does it support 3D viewing?
The PDF spec has several rather obscure features that aren't usually supported in readers other than Adobe's. One of them is the ability to display 3D models that the user can rotate, zoom in, and ...
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Pdf viewer that handles live updating of pdf/doesn't lock the file
I'm working on a latex document (with pdflatex, cygwin, acrobat reader) and I'm am tired of the make - close - open process.
On osx with Preview I don't have that problem, since I can compile the ....
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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 number of items showed in search history in 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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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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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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Which PDF viewer for Linux supports going back and forward?
I use Alt-arrow to go back and forward very often in browser, IDE, etc. But the standard PDF viewer in Linux Mint lacks this function. What can I use instead (preferably not Adobe Reader)?
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SumatraPDF as default PDF viewer in Emacs
I have been trying to change the default PDF viewer in Emacs from Adobe to SumatraPDF. After searching on the internet I began editing the .emacs file. The file has a lot of stuff not concerning the ....
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Open file at given path with non-default program?
I am normally opening PDF files with Foxit Reader.
Now I have one PDF file (C:\sample.pdf) which I edit quite often, so for opening it, I am always using Adobe Acrobat. Currently I always have to ...
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PDF editor/viewer for Linux/Windows with element positioning options
Is there some PDF editor/viewer for Linux or Windows that can show me a position of selected element and document size in inches?
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Why does the last KB of a PDF take so long to load?
I'm loading a 357 KB PDF, and the first 356 KBs loaded almost instantly, whereas the last KB is taking forever to load.
I encounter this problem as I load PDFs in varying sizes from varied sources.
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Hiding 'tools', 'comment' and 'sign' buttons in Adobe Reader XI
How can I hide 'tools', 'comment' and 'sign' buttons (note only the assosiated panes) from toolbar of Adobe Reader XI?
I found this, but did not work for me: http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2011/03/...
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Forcing grayscale PDF to Black and White?
I have a large color PDF that I can easily view greyscale in Foxit Reader:
Unfortunately various bits of text end up in ridiculously light shades of grey.
Similar, but not direct, questions include:
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Does SumatraPdf have a configuration file?
I would like to make some command line options (-invert-colors) permanent in my SumatraPDF installation. Is there a configuration (eg. an ini) file I can make SumatraPDF to use?
The manual mentions ...
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Storing Current Page for PDF eBooks
I am reading through several PDF eBooks on 2 different Windows PCs and 1 Android tablet. I would like to come up with an easy way to "bookmark" my current page that will work on all environments. So ...