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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"Server application, source file, or item can't be found.": trying to embed PDF into Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013
I am trying to embed a PDF into a PowerPoint slide. I get the following error message:
The server application, source file, or item can't be found, or
returned an unknown error. You may need to ...
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How to make Google Chrome open PDFs in the internal PDF viewer instead of downloading them automatically?
How to prevent Chrome from downloading PDF files automatically and instead of that, show them online with internal PDF viewer?
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Stupidly Huge .pdf File
So I have a user that's trying to open a template .pdf file that she has reportedly been able to open and make changes to many times before, only this time she reported that it's opening/running/...
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unable to change the security properties on PDF file to password protect it
I have PDF file I scanned. I am unable to change the security setting to add password it it.
Here is link how to password protect it and also the screenshot for the gray'ed out security propety.
I ...
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Auto-scrolling a PDF on a page basis with Foxit Reader 7
Is it possible to auto-scroll a PDF on a page basis with Foxit Reader 7 with Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate? By page basis I mean I want the PDF to auto-scroll page by page, and not by small increments ...
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Auto-scrolling a PDF on a page basis with Adobe Acrobat Pro XI
Is it possible to auto-scroll a PDF on a page basis with Adobe Acrobat Pro XI with Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate? By page basis I mean I want the PDF to auto-scroll page by page, and not by small ...
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OneNote 2013 Hyperlinks dont work in pdf-export with FoxitReader
If I export a Page to pdf-Format in onenote2013, the external hyperlinks in the resulting pdf don't work. They are blue and underlined but I can't click them and there is no information about the ...
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MS Word: preserve hyperlinks when exporting to PDF
How can I convert a Word document to PDF and preserve all hyperlinks?
I have Word 2011 and Acrobat XI available on OS X. Save As -> PDF from Word doesn't preserve hyperlinks. Acrobat's File -> ...
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How can I open a PDF to a certain page from within excel?
I would like a macro code for Excel 2013 that will open up a certain page upon clicking a button in the excel cell. I am using the below code, but it is working intermittently. Please help with a ...
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Is it somehow possible to edit hyperlinks from or in a pdf file faster than with Acrobat?
I have a PDF file with several hundreds of hyperlinks (all pointing inside the file) and would like to change the destination pages faster and easier than with the built in tool contained in Adobe ...
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Splitting a file provides some sort of encryption?
I was wondering if splitting a file with tools like HJsplit provides some sort of encryption.
Imagine I split an image or a pdf in various parts, if someone manage to get just 1 or more parts, could ...
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How to sync okular annotations between Windows and Linux using Dropbox?
Is there some way I can make Okular store metadata (specifically annotations) in Dropbox, so it is read by Okular regardless of which computer I am using.
For example, I have a Linux laptop with lots ...
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Ghostscript and JPEG2000 images
Using gs 8.71, RedHat
I'm having trouble converting pdf files that have jpeg2000 images embedded within. Part of the coding is to reduce the pdf image by 10% using the -c <> setpagedevice command....
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What are exact settings in Adobe Acrobat "Reduced Size PDF..." relative to "Optimized PDF..."?
Does anybody know what are the exact settings whne saving a PDF document in "Reduced Size PDF..." vs. saving it in "Optimized PDF..."?
I know "Optimized PDF..." has different modes like Standard, ...
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Is there a command-line method to split a multi-page PDF file into single pages?
I have a single PDF file 6 pages long that I want to split into six seperate pdfs (1.pdf, 2.pdf, 3.pdf) such that each file produced represents one page from the input. I would love to be able to do ...
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Improve pdf render speed
What hardware resources (more/better CPU, RAM, or GPU) should be increased to improve pdf render speeds?
We need to keep on flipping to next-page of pdf at the rate of 10 page/s and the pdfs contain ...
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Batch update multiple PDFs meta data
I Need to update a lot of old PDFs with newer meta data (File > Properties> Description - Title, Author, Subject...)
I have too many to do it manually and could nto find a way to apply the same meta ...
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How to remove OCR from a PDF?
I have been searching Google for some time but cannot find an answer to my question.
I have unwanted layers of OCR in a document that I recently scanned with Adobe Acrobat. It has not been OCRed ...
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Why copying a text box in Adobe Acrobat XI Pro does not appear in Ditto's clipboard history?
When I editing the content of a PDF using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, I noticed that when I copy a text box object, it does not appear in Ditto's clipboard history. Why?
To edit the content of a PDF I use ...
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Fit a page to its content in Adobe Acrobat XI Pro?
Is there any way to fit a page to its content in Adobe Acrobat XI Pro?
E.g. in the following PDF, I did some content editing and one text box is outside the page:
I would like to extend the size of ...
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Converting a Latex PDF into EPUB format [duplicate]
Is there a way to take a technical article in PDF format (which typically contains latex formulas) and convert it into an epub format? I wouldn't have access to the original latex files themselves, ...
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What font is CourierLatin1
I have a pdf I need to, using Acrobat Professional, change a few characters in. The problem is that when I do I get an error message that the font is not available. Viewing properties for these ...
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How to convert the html book into a pdf (with bookmarks for toc)? [duplicate]
I downloaded a large HTML-formatted reference document, which contains a number of chapters in separate files. I would like to convert the entire document into a single PDF file, preferably with a ...
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Opening Files with SLPDF Extension
I have a file with SLPDF extension, it is a locked PDF file but any software can't open it. The file was locked with hardware lock and the tiny manager key creator. I don't have the key and hardware ...
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Scanning and Recognizing Highlighted Text
This question was asked on an Adobe Acrobat forum. I am posting here since I am looking to solve the same task, but don't require that the solution use Adobe Acrobat.
Is there a way to print a PDF: ...
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How can I programmatically change/protect text contents in a PDF so it's no longer copyable text?
I want to do the opposite of OCR, I don't want to turn images into text, I want to turn all the text in a PDF into image so it cannot be casually selected and copied.
In Acrobat Pro is fine, but I ...
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Sort files in Windows by name - according to date
I have a bunch of PDF invoices in a folder. They are named according to their dates. For example:
28-02-13.pdf
28-02-14.pdf
28-03-13.pdf
28-06-13.pdf
29-11-13.pdf
30-04-13.pdf
30-04-14.pdf
31-...
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What is the maximum length of a PDF document password?
I would like to know what is the maximum length of a PDF document password.
I want to know this, for all PDF document versions and encryption modes.
For example 40bit, 128bit, 256bit etc.
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How can I improve the PDF viewer in Chrome x64
I recently switch to Chrome x64 and found that the old Sumatra PDF plug-in no longer worked. It uses the old Netscape API which is being removed from Chrome, so even if it were ported to x64 it wouldn'...
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I would like to record both music and a pdf on a cd (music as .cda)
I as involved in the production of a cantata in the 1960s and have at last found a vinyl copy of the rehersal and presentation tracks. Having converted the vinyl to mp3 and created a pdf from the ...
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Can't convert PDF into image, because of 'no images defined' error
I've the following PDF file:
http://www.fmwconcepts.com/misc_tests/pdf_tests/test.pdf
But when I'm trying to convert it via:
$ convert test.pdf test.png
I've the following error:
convert: no ...
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Disable the security warning "Do you want to open this file? - Unknown Publisher" for a specific filetype
I always get the annoying warning below when opening PDF files. Can I avoid this (for *.pdf)?
I use PDFlite as my default PDF reader.
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Can I recover the original image of text after processing by adobe professional OCR?
Someone used (probably) Adobe Professional OCR feature to OCR a scanned pdf file. The OCRed result had some errors, and it added the text result back to the text image in the pdf file, covering the ...
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Lock fillable pdf form
So i got this pdf file to fill out. I wanna export it to a normal, non-fillable pdf using Acrobat Reader. I cant manage to do it. I tried printing it and select export to pdf in printer setup, however,...
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how to send a pdf or ms excel/word file while it's open?
Upon viewing a pdf, ms excel/word file, i often want to send to my colleague for viewing, and after sending, i will still need to keep it open to use it further. While each time I have to close it and ...
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Can't access website on one computer, but ok on another
I was able to access aescryp.com the other day. The I was trying to view/download the user guide found here: https://www.aescrypt.com/documentation/ (on Windows). Right after that I couldn't get ...
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Adobe Reader 11.0.9 crashes when using "tools" or "form and Sign"
I recently updated my company's Adobe reader to 11.0.9 via GPO. I followed instructions here: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/37467-how-to-create-a-slipstreamed-adobe-acrobat-reader-msi-...
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Generating PDF bookmarks from hidden text in Microsoft Word TC fields
I have a long Word document with various sections. The section titles are shown only in the running headers, so in order to include these in the TOC (table of contents) I use a TC field at the start ...
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Pages in a PDF file created from images have different size/resolution
I recently created a PDF file from a bunch of images (all of format gif except one of format jpe). In an image viewer, all images are of the same size and resolution. However, after I converted them ...
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PDFs scrolling not smooth
I'm using a Macbook Pro. There's a always a response delay when I scroll fast. Is there a way to load the entire file onto Memory/ pre-render it? And would that fix the problem?
Edit- I was using ...
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PDF-XChange Viewer Document Appearance Issues
What could be the cause for a .pdf file to not show properly? Texts do not fit into boxes, they are printed on top of each other and so on.
An example of the distortion using PDF-XChange Viewer:
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Copying straight text from latex generated file
I'm trying to do some corrections to a PDF documented generated from latex.
To do the corrections I first copy the text out of the PDF.
What happens is that in the generated PDF, the words are cut ...
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How to convert the main content of a web page into a pdf file?
I have a long web page of a study guide, I want to convert the main content of that page into pdf, I mean minus the navigation bar, the footer, and so on. Is there a tool to do that? I am using Ubuntu ...
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Removing identical element from all pages of a pdf
I have a pdf file with a text box at the bottom of each page that I'd like to remove. Is there a way to automate this process in acrobat or a similar program?
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Adobe Reader: "Save As Other->text" comes out garbled
I have a PDF that opens fine in Adobe Reader XI. It displays fine, has no password, etc. I am attempting to save these to text for some automation work, but it isn't working.
When I go to File->...
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Fixing Adobe Acrobat to Microsoft Word Line Munging
I have a PDF document that I am converting to Word using Adobe Acrobat (a recent version). The text converts perfectly fine, but the lines get screwed up.
An excerpt from the original PDF looks like ...
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Batch Print multiples PDF on Windows 8 [duplicate]
Im using Windows 8.1 and have multiple PDF files that i want to print. At the moment the only way i know to print those PDF files is by opening the file with the default Windows 8 PDF reader and then ...
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Cannot open pdf form on Ubuntu 14.4
While trying to open a pdf form, it raised an error and refused to open the form all together.
It displays:
Please wait...
If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the ...
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"Print" webpage to pdf with working hyperlinks
I print a lot of web pages to pdf, using CutePDF. URLs are maintained as active links in the pdf document, but hyperlinks do not generate an active link.
Is there any, preferably free, pdf printer ...
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How to export PDF from Word to a specific directory?
I know how to export PDF from Word. I always export the PDFs to one direction, with the name is same as the Word name. Is there any way to do this quickly?