Questions tagged [pdf]
Portable Document Format (PDF) is a platform-independent standard developed by Adobe System in 1993 for document exchange.
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Adobe Acrobat Pro DC and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Issues
I have a question about the two programs that I have at work. We have both programs Adobe Acrobat Pro DC and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Both have the same Version 2017.009.20044. So, on my computer I ...
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Convert PDF to writeable form
What are the ways I can convert a PDF file, like this one: http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/@educ/documents/digitalasset/dg_184664.pdf to a file in writeable ...
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Determine the font family name of encrypted fonts used in a pdf
My company currently implements fillable reports when submitting documents. Now we are in the process of converting these fillable forms into computerized one, although the user still has the option ...
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Why do some PDFs lag in Adobe Acrobat?
I have a handful of PDFs open. One of them in particular is extremely laggy, almost to the point of being unreadable. When I scroll through its pages, it's almost like an extreme version of v-sync ...
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Adobe Acrobat DC Text Field Properties
I was wondering if anyone happens to know how to change the list of fonts at the top of your font choice in Acrobat Text Field Properties??
It has been bugging me for a while as I want to put ...
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No more ugly fonts please, how to create typographically beautiful PDFs?
I'm authoring a textbook (e-book) in Microsoft Word and we're publishing as an Acrobat PDF. The problem I'm having is that, while the fonts/typography look fine in MS Word, when I build the PDF in ...
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Format of lines when copying from PDF
I'm trying to copy text from PDF file to word, however when i paste the text in word file, the lines in PDF file are "shorter", so it doesn't take up the whole line in word and i have to manually join ...
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Printer not printing because of wrong size paper
Our company recently upgraded its "bizhub" Konica Minolta printer to the latest version and this printer has been one hassle after another. Today, I tried to print a normal document and the printer ...
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How to change the font(s) used by a PDF in OSX? Specifically I want to change from bitmap to vector fonts
I have a number of PDFs of scientific papers that I want to be able to read on a Kindle. They look fine on my laptop but on the Kindle they look like low quality scans and are awful to read. As far as ...
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Unable to open pdf Adobe Acrobat DC
I have a user who can't open a couple of .pdf files.
The word docs the files were original created from can be opened fine and you can open the pdfs in every other application except Adobe Acrobat DC....
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How to print (pdf) separate files using direct mail on microsoft word?
I'm trying to print / export using direct mail on microsoft word 2016, however I just can not export each pages to a pdf file separated. Is there any way to print / export files using direct mail on ...
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How to convert large .htm file to .pdf?
I have a fairly large .htm file, 100 MB which doesn't fully load in any browser I've tried (the page stops rendering after a certain point), so I want to try converting the file into a .pdf file so ...
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inserting Greek letters into PDF comments
I am using PDF comments lately for taking notes. One issue is that there are a lot of Greek letters to write down. I can't find a way to type Greek letters into PDF comments. Currently, I have to ...
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How to save a PDF being displayed in Chrome?
I am looking at a website (internal to my company so cannot share) in Google Chrome. When I click on a particular link, it opens up a PDF file in a new window. (It's javascript, not a plain link, so I ...
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unable to find Javascript option in Tools menu in pdf
I want to add javascript in PDF but I don't find Javascript option in Tools menu in pdf.
I have enabled all options from Edit -> Preferences -> Javascript
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Strange LaTeX PDF rendering in Firefox – letter "t" is bold
I have this problem with Firefox 50.0 on Fedora 23 and GNOME 3.18.2. When I view a PDF document created in LaTeX, the letter "t" shows bold with default zoom:
Screenshot with default zoom:
When I ...
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Link the page numbers in the table of contents with pages
How could I link page numbers in the table of content of a pdf file with the pages? I would like to do it with a single operation.
For example, in the table of contents I have:
Page 1
Page 2
Page ...
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How do I change page scaling while printing a PDF on Windows 10?
I deal with a lot of poster-sized PDF files. In older versions of Acrobat Reader, when printing you could change the scaling (so it would shrink to one page, or split across multiple printer pages).
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How to convert PDF to make it to be two compacted pages on side when printing?
I have: PDF document with a 800 pages book. If I just print it it will take 400 sheets of paper - too much.
I want: converted PDF document that have 400 pages: each page is two pages of original ...
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How to edit and enlarge the font in a PDF document?
I have a 6" Kindle. I often read technical PDF files, but the problem is that they don't get converted very well to Kindle's native format (for example, code blocks get messed up, etc). When looking ...
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Searching for free "html to pdf" software [duplicate]
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How to convert Html files to Pdf ?
I am searching for a free software to convert html to pdf and preserved the html hyperlinks and text searchable in pdf?
Anyone has ...
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How can you invert the colors of a PDF?
I need to invert all the colors of a PDF document (background, text, graphics, and images). I want it persistent in the file so the inverted viewing options, that some viewers offer, won't help.
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PDF: Print Twice To Get Rid of Unwanted Part
Similar questions has been asked but I still cannot get it exactly.
I have a PDF document with unwanted text at the bottom. Exactly the same text box at the exact location at each page. (Say the ...
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How to select all the pdfs containing a particular word?
I have 5000 pdfs out of which 500 pdfs are important, rest are useless. There is one word present in each 500 file that is not present in other 4500 files. I did multiple file search and came to know ...
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Why does pdf text-selection only work on the right half of the page?
This happens quite often to documents I have not personally created. You're ok to select text backwards from the right-hand side, and if you do not go too far, you get the entire snippet.
But ...
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How to export SVG to PDF without images with relative path, using Inkscape?
I'm using Inkscape to create a SVG file and export this file to PDF. Then, I'm using this command:
./inkscape --file=my.svg --export-area-drawing --without-gui --export-pdf=my.pdf
I'm using command ...
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Convert image to pdf a5 with not empty areas
I'm using this command
mogrify -format pdf -page a5 iguana2.jpg
to convert a jpg file into a pdf. The problem is that the result has a white border. I'd like the image to full fill the a5 page (it'...
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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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Can a valid PDF be "Java serialization data"?
I have a PDF file that my reader (Zathura) would not open. I have another reader (mupdf) that does open it. I believe that Zathura depends on detecting the file magic value (first few bytes) because ...
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specify signed attributes with OpenSSL in PKCS7 signature
I am evaluating the capability of openssl for generating PDF signatures. I see some differences between the PKCS7 signature fields generated by openssl and other programs.
How can I specify exactly ...
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Indesign: printing booklets with creep
Currently when I try to print any booklets from InDesign CS5, using Adobe PDF printer, it ignores any bleed settings and just places a white bar in the center of the resulting print, instead of ...
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Script for printing all PDF's in folder and moving them after printing
I'm looking for some solution for my problem. I have directory with multiple PDF files. I want my script to print it all and move them to directory "Completed" after printing. I have very basic ...
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Command line pdf joiner
Is there a command line pdf joiner somewhere out there ?
I need to join about 300 pdf files (well, 368 to be exact, not including toc and frontpage) and I can't see any way to do it simply using foxit ...
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Free PDF/A printer for Windows
does someone of you know a freely available program that installs itself as a printer on Windows and is able to produce PDF/A documents?? Moreover there should be the possibility to merge documents (I....
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Scan to PDF software for Windows? [closed]
What's the best software to use to scan documents direct to a multi-page PDF. I want to scan a series of sheets directly to a PDF file with as little manual intervention as possible.
Software must ...
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Scanning to PDF/A on Linux
PDF/A is one of the best formats to archive my documents.
What Linux software would allow me to scan documents to PDF/A ?
A PNG→PDF/A or TIFF→PDF/A tool would be fine too.
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How to convert ANSI colored text to PDF
I have a program that generates console output colored with ANSI codes. How to convert it to PDF keeping the colours?
I need a unixish command line solution
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How to bulk print hundreds of tabs (either firefox, chrome, or IE) into PDF [closed]
I'm trying to print upwards of 250 different Firefox tabs each into an individual PDF file. Alternatively, if this can't be done, what about printing all the tabs into a single PDF file?
Does anyone ...
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Broken boolean search in Acrobat XI
I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI. I can't seem to be able to use a boolean search in the Advanced Find. I know it has worked before but just can't do it now.
CTRL-SHIFT-F to bring up advanced find.
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Compare/Check PDF filename and contents
We currently have a application that generates a pdf document and automatically names it based on {UniqueID-DocCode-StartDate-StartTime}, all this data is coming from a db via our application. We are ...
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Convert xls to pdf using command prompt
I have to convert a lot of .xls and .xlsx files to .pdf files. Is there a way to convert faster all the files using the command prompt?
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Word prompts me to save my document after exporting it to a PDF
Even though I have not changed the contents of the document since hitting Ctrl+S, after I exported the document to PDF, I am confronted with "Want to save your changes...?" message when I try to exit ...
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Is there a way to convert a Word document into a PDF document?
I have seen in OpenOffice that I can directly save the document that I have made into a PDF file. They have given an option at the top for this job.
Can I convert or save my Microsoft Word file (.doc)...
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How can I print Legal size PDF page on two Letter pages?
I have standard Adobe PDF Reader.
I have a PDF of Legal size
I would like to print it on Letter page, so that what does not fit below automatically goes on to the second Letter page.
"Poster" ...
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Variation in data usage
Does changing the settings of Web browser (Firefox and Chrome) to preview a pdf over download (save) it change the data usage?
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How can I convert a .png image to .pdf with OCR text? [closed]
I have a .png file that is a screenshot of an article I found online. I would like a PDF version of it, with all the text selectable.
Are there any apps or tools that do that?
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PDF file downloads getting corrupted on PC
In my laptop certain PDF files are getting corrupted on downloading. The downloads happen just fine without an issue, but when I try to open the downloaded PDF file later, I get a "Format error: Not a ...
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Convert a Word document into PDF file
I have Adobe Acrobat Reader on my laptop. I want to convert a Word document into PDF file. When I try to save the file, I don't find a PDF file format on the Save as type box.
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How can I turn these pdfs into MS Word templates? (w. gray background)
I have two pdf files which I want to turn into MS Word templates, so that I can actually write & add data to the templates. However, I don't know how to do this, my main problem here seems to be ...
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Word Document prints as two pages when displays as one
I have a Word Document I have been working on for training purposes. It fits all on a single page, it is on Letter layout, it prints out as letter size, yet when it prints, it either crops out what ...
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