Questions tagged [pdf-reader]
A PDF reader is an application which can read and display Portable Document Format files.
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Resizing signature on Adobe Reader on Windows 7 tablet
I have a Windows 7 tablet and would like to be able to complete PDF forms, and put a signature on them. However with Adobe Reader I am unable to resize the signature as I cant accurately touch and ...
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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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How to change the fonts used in Foxit Reader?
I really want to use Foxit Reader as my default PDF reader for its Tab Interface, and low memory footprint. Having tried mutiple times over the years the only thing that is stopping me are the Fonts. ...
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How to print only PDF pages with searched text
In a PDF Document with 200> pages, I want to print only the ones containing a given search text.
However it seems that Acrobat Reader is not able to do this. I can print only selected pages, but I can ...
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Firefox not opening pdf files
I've been using pdf.js in Firefox for some time (Firefox 38.0.5 currently and Windows 7) and pdf.js was ok. However lately, I noticed that pdf.js isn't being opened anymore and instead nothing ...
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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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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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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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Chrome's PDF reader does not always show spaces between words
The reader does not show the spaces between words in many case. The PDF opens fine using the reader that the OS uses, so I know that I am not getting a corrupted PDF.
In addition, the reader realizes ...
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Evince is not refreshing
To clarify I think at one point when you edited a PDF say by compiling with pdflatex, the edits appear immediately in Evince reader and didn't require you to close the viewer and open it to see the ...
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How to reduce the number of clicks in Adobe acrobat/windows to save updated pdf file overwriting the existing one?
I am using the Adobe Acrobat readers to add comments to PDF files but every time I want to exit the file leaving the newer version overwriting the earlier one, I have to jump through several windows ...
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Is it possible to sync a number of a page in pdf document to the field for goto page in pdf reader?
Is it possible to sync a page number in pdf document to the field for goto page in pdf program? So when I enter number 13 for page 13, it will always show me page which is numbered 13 and not 17. As ...
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Evince with dbus-launch cann't use WSL2 input methods
In the first post i asked how to enable reading history of Evince in WSL2, thanks to the answer which recommends:
dbus-launch evince <file.pdf>
But I found a problem, I cannot use WSL2 input ...
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Text selection with keyboard in Okular
Is it possible to select text in a PDF with Okular using the keyboard?
Something in the lines of:
Left-click on the text to place the text cursor there, then press Shift and Left/Right arrow keys to ...
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Microsoft Reader App Keeps Crashing
This question has been asked before, but I'm asking again because it has been a while since that one was asked.
I'm aware that the Reader app has been discontinued, and that it is possible to keep ...
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Is PDF versioning available in Adobe Acrobat DC?
Is versioning available for adobe acrobat DC? I'm new to editing PDFs and to Adobe Acrobat DC, but I've been reading contradictory things on line.
Is versioning possible? If so, how do I enable it?
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How to install two Skim apps on mac?
Skim may be the only pdf viewer that support forward and inverse sync. It only supports one editor for inverse sync. I want to know whether I can install two skim apps with different setting files in ~...
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Chrome PDF viewer snaps back to the same page
When attempting to scroll down the PDF, chrome snaps back to the same page after reaching a certain point.
This only happens with one PDF, and this occurs only in chrome.
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Searching keywords in Preview: Don't automatically jump to first occurrence
This is driving me crazy. Whenever I search for a term in a pdf with Preview (cmd+F) it will jump to the very first occurrence of the search term in the entire document (!) automatically. I want it to ...
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Adobe Reader DC - Navigation Panes: Default Width
How can I set the default width of the Navigation Bars in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC?
I am getting this every time I open a new document or collapse and extend again the Navigation Bars:
How could I ...
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Foxit Reader, highlight text that is read by text-to-speech feature
I use Foxit Reader to have my documents read for me by using
Ctrl+Shift+B to start reading
Ctrl+Shift+P to pause reading
Ctrl+Shift+E to end reading
I was wondering if there is an option that ...
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Should I expect PDF vs TIF CMYK images to render differently on screen?
Consider a TIF CMYK image with embedded ICC profile, e.g. using ImageMagick :
convert input.tif -profile /path/to/ISOcoated_v2_eci.icc output.pdf
convert input.tif -profile /path/to/ISOcoated_v2_eci....
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What is :exec and :export commands format in Zathura PDF viewer?
It’s not documented anywhere. I’d like to bind a shortcut to export currently open page to desktop and another one to open it in gimp. Is that possible?
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How can I change the default browser and pdf viewer in windows 10?
Normally when I use for example firefox, chrome or foxit reader the "do you want to set this as the default browser/reader" works. But since upgrading windows 8.1 to windows 10 I'm stuck with IE and ...
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Automatically scroll PDF
I want to set up a raspberry pi which should present PDF files at full screen, which should automatically scroll. I have no problem in setting up a script that identifies the files to be viewed. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is it possible to make Adobe Reader to only negate a page?
Evince has a feature that inverts the colors, look:
But Adobe Acrobat doesn't seem to do it right, look:
It seems Adobe's Reader doesn't simply invert the colors, is there a way to make it have the ...
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How to limit a pdf search to within certain pages
How do you limit the search of a pdf to within a specific page range or specific chapter? I had an e-textbook and I want to search for glossary terms within the glossary, and not be redirected to ...
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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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PDF with 200 DPI JPEGs look blurry in viewer
I often scan images, and I usually do that as 200 DPI JPEG files. If I look at them in Gwenview (Linux image viewer) the text looks readable, and on 100% it looks perfectly sharp.
When I convert them ...
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Foxit Reader temporarily freezes reading fonts, how to reduce?
When using Foxit Reader to read pdfs I noticed, that there are certain lags from time to time, where the the reader freezes for some seconds and then continues working later on.
I used the Windows ...
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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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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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Removing Text Of A Certain Colour From A Long PDF
I am preparing for exams and have found some very good resources for myself but they have one issue. All the answers are written right under each question in red ink. I'd like to print these out and ...
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"Open PDFs from last session on Acrobat launch" is disabled
In the acrobat reader, the option of "PDFs from last session on Acrobat launch" is disabled, such that it cannot be checked anymore.
See the screenshot below.
How to resolve this issue?
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Can't copy chinese text from PDF
I tried to open it with google docs, and tried the site i2orc to convert the file. But in both cases the Chinese characters are missing from the output, just as when i copy/paste them from the ...
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Copy page numbers from a pdf with a shortcut?
I read a lot of PDF files and take notes from them. I often like to include page numbers in these notes so that a reader can find what I am talking about. But this is a pain with a lot of typing.
Is ...
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PDF with Invisible Text inside a Text Box
I have a PDF document, which contains several text boxes, but the text inside is invisible. I am able to select the text and copy/paste it into another document and see what is written inside the text ...
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Is it possible to email the current page of a pdf I am reading?
Is it possible to email the current page of a PDF I am reading? In Adobe Reader or any PDF reader. I don't want to email the whole file.
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PDF document converted from a MS-Word file shows jpeg as text rather than images
I have a document in MS Word which includes tables that I want to display as images rather than text. In the document I have inputted them as jpegs which were created by selecting the table, pasting ...
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How to convert a scanned text from PDF to Word?
I have a scanned text in PDF format but it is in Arabic how to convert it into a Word file so that the text remains in Arabic.
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Way to quickly open and re-save all PDF files in a folder?
I have 40 PDF forms that were filled. When I compile the form responses (using the "Export Data From Multiple Forms" option) I often see in the consolidated file that some entered responses are either ...
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Disable pop-up when selecting text in Foxit-Reader
When selecting (e.g click and drag or double click a word) I get a pop-up, like so:
I find it quite annoying, and would like to disable it, but cannot find such a setting. Is this possible, or are ...
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How can I get Libre Office to accept pasted text?
I am trying to paste some information copied from a PDF document into an Open Office document (Libre Office 5.0.4.2), but instead of pasting the information that is in the clipboard to the .odt file, ...
