Portable Document Format (PDF) is a platform-independent standard developed by Adobe System in 1993 for document exchange.
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Tool for performing a PDF Diff? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to compare the differences between two PDF files?
Are there any tools available for performing a diff between two PDF files? Or am I better off just extracting the ...
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Merge two PDF files containing even and odd pages of a book
I have two searchable PDF documents, say even.pdf and odd.pdf which contain even and odd pages of a book, respectively.
I can decompile each PDF to separate files 001.pdf 002.pdf 003.pdf, et ...
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Bug: Weird symbol in pdf generated from Indesign CS3
I recently encountered a weird bug in Adobe Acrobat. I generated a PDF from Indesign and some weird symbols in "Build relationships" appear out of no where.
When I copy the words from PDF viewer ...
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Converting Your PDF for Text-Reflow ipad
How do you convert the text in a pdf to be resizable depending on the screen size, native to the platform. Are there best approaches for all platforms, or a best for a specific platform.
IOS, ...
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How to save a PSD as a low size PDF
i have my CV on a PSD file so when i save it as a PDF the file size is like 55Mb.
so i've tried to save it and open it with Adobe Acrobat to save it again as low size PDF and the file size it's 717Kb
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Convert PDF files to linked HTML files
Does anyone know of a way to convert a PDF file to HTML files, 1 file per page? If the pages can be linked with each other, that is, page 10 contains links to pages 9 and 11, for easier browsing, ...
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About the security of adding a signature to a PDF file
We can add a "bitmap" or image signature to a PDF file, either by using Adobe Acrobat or by Mac's Preview app, but I wonder, besides always encrypting it with a password before sending it by email to ...
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pdfjam - openning password protected pdf files
Which parameter should I use with the pdfjam command to open (and edit) password protected files (i.e. i do not need to crack teh password i know it, I just don´t know how to pass it to the pdfjam).
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Sending MS Publisher Document (or PDF) as Body of Email
I'm helping a friend create a single-page email newsletter for their work and they have a great design in MS Publisher. Is there any way to insert this as the BODY of an email (not an attachment), ...
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how to Convert images with text to pdf [closed]
i have a few pics of a some text, in printed format and need to find a software that can scan the test and convert it to pdf
is there any such utility out there?
Thanks
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Ubuntu: PDF Editing [closed]
I'm looking for app capable of editing pdf file (text, insert images) Alternatively I need an app which able to properly convert PDF to DOC/ODF and back to PDF
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Size of PDF vs Epub
Are there any rulrs-of-thumb egarding size of Epub vs pdf with the same content?
I'm well aware that this depends on the content, encoding, compression and so on, but for e. g a 3mb pdf report on ...
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PDF reverse n-up
There are several tools that can n-up pdfs, like pdfjam, pdftk,...
How would I reverse the process, say, make a document of 2n pages from a document of n-pages?
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mail mergre PDF cropper filenames
I have created 200 letters using Microsoft Word mail merge by drawing data from an excel file. I now have a gigantic pdf file which has all the letters. I'd like to be able to split the pdf file into ...
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Is it possible to save a One Note notebook as a landscape PDF?
OneNote gives you the option of saving an entire notebook as a PDF file. Unfortunately I can only seem to find a way for it to do this in portrait orientation, which doesn't make a lot of sense for ...
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Multiple pages per sheet (PDF)
I use the following commands
pdf2ps input.pdf - | psnup -pA4 -4 >> output.ps
ps2pdf output.ps output.pdf
rm output.ps
to merge multiple pages (in this case 4) from input file to one sheet in ...
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How do we make PDFs reflowable?
I read news that Adoble released some Mobile SDK that would make PDFs reflowable. Is such technology out yet? Does involve converting a standard PDF to a reflowable? If so, how do we do it? Or is it ...
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PDF files are opening in Firefox, undesiredly
PDF files have suddenly started to open within the browser windows of Firefox 17. The PDF files are being displayed with the Adobe Acrobat plugin, which is odd, since I have explicitly disabled the ...
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How to identify the format of images in a pdf?
I have received a number of pdf files with images in them. The original images have been lost, so I need to extract them. I have Adobe Acrobat Pro, so I extracted them using Advanced > Document ...
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Apple Automator “New PDF from Images” maintaining same filename
I will potentially have 26k of old legacy PICT images to transfer first to PDF for migration. I am using Apple Automator and also the "Dispense Items Incrementally" to loop through it. However, I ...
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Need to resize pdf on screen
I have 'upgraded' to Windows 8. I often need to compare a Word document with other sources including an original PDF document. Previously I could put each file on a window and resize the windows as ...
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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 can I extract an underlying flash file from a word, pdf or powerpoint file?
I have a software that creates a PDF, word or powerpoint file that contains a flash file that I need. However, I cannot seem to extract that flash file. I have tried using SWFTools as suggested in ...
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Converting a multi-sheet per page pdf to single sheet per page
My father-in-law usually creates his newsletters pre-'booked' -- that is, two columns with the pages in the right place such that you can print and staple the newsletter. Unfortunately, this month ...
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Printing the second page from a Calc sheet
I've created a simple invoice document in LibreOffice Calc and it consists of 2 pages. I have defined the print range for my document as:
$A$1:$D$33,$D$34:$D$35
My first page holds the actual ...
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Why textbooks are not sold in PDF format? [closed]
I have noticed that although there are many professional (e.g. O'Reilly) books available as PDF, that many textbook publishers choose not to make PDF format available for purchase. What are the ...
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Compressing PDF files [duplicate]
I have a PDF created from JPEG images colour scanned from a few pages.
The file size is very large (> 325 MB) and I don't have access to the original scans (I only have the PDF file).
Is there any ...
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Free pdf to word or pdf to excel converter [closed]
I am looking for good quality free pdf-to-word or pdf-to-excel files converter. If anyone knows the recourse or can share the link I'd be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for help!
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Why is Word 2011 saving 2Mb PDF files when the docx is only 136kb?
Please help me with this. I am saving my resume as PDF. Word makes it into a 2.3Mb PDF file when the original docx is only 136kb. It is a simple one-page document without images or graphics, simply ...
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repair corrupted PDF
I have already looked at:
Repair corrupt PDF and
Rescuing a possibly corrupt PDF in Acrobat
I tried ghostscript on both OS X and Windows. OS X gs gave the following error:
GPL Ghostscript 9.06 ...
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Office 2010 converts pptx to pdf differently on windows7 and XP
Office 2010 has this built-in "create pdf" function.
File->Save & Send->Create PDF/XPS Document
I created a pptx file in win7, then converted it to win7.pdf.
then I copied the pptx to xp ...
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Acrobat 8, PDF Optimizer has no effect, convert embedded PNGs to JPG?
I use the PDF Optimizer feature in Acrobat Pro (v8) to reduce the file size of DTP-generated PDFs by downsampling the embedded images to a lower resolution. This normally works fine.
However today ...
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Best pdf file flipbook veiwer without dependency [closed]
I am in search of a web component that can display pdf files uploaded by user in a flipbook fashion.
I already used papervision(only accept swf file not pdf), it need swftools to convert pdf to swf ...
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2 pdfs look same on XP, different on Win7
I have 2 pdf files.
I compared them with WinMerge, BeyondCompare, and even compared their checksums. They are exactly the same to me in every way.
If I open them with Adobe Reader in Xp, and ...
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How can a PDF file harm your computer?
Google Chrome warns against all downloaded PDF files. I've also heard through various sources on the internet that PDF files are vulnerable, and hackers can potentially compromise your system if you ...
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How do I export a LibreOffice document as a PDF with working, external hyperlinks?
I'm trying to export a LibreOffice document to PDF and have my hyperlinks open in a browser, but no matter what I do it seems as though they try to open them locally (i.e in my file system). I don't ...
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How can I extract a password-protected pdf from an unprotected zip file?
I have a password protected pdf inside an unprotected zip file. I forgot the password of the pdf. Now I can't extract the pdf from the zip file.
How can I extract my pdf file?
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.pdf font not everywhere the same?
I have a PDF file that looks different on other systems. The font on some systems is different. How is this possible? I thought .pdf always displays the same.
Somebody told me that if you are ...
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How to add page values to a PDF so that you can view the number of pages through windows explorer?
My question is based off of this unanswered question on the Adobe forums.
Background:
The background behind why I want to do this is because I'm trying to plan the order & time needed to read ...
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How to convert calibre (cbr) to pdf format in Linux?
I have a comic strip book in cbr (Calibre?) format. How can I convert it to pdf in my Ubuntu 12.04? I tried to install calibre hoping that it is able to do so. But it seems to be buggy and does not ...
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AutoHotkey - Scrolling two PDF documents
I am trying to make a script that scrolls all the opened PDF documents at the same time. The problem is that I can not get it to work unless I specifically name each window that has to be scrolled and ...
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How can I view a PDF in Firefox when the server specifies the wrong content type?
I am using Mozilla Firefox with a PDF viewer plug-in. The plug-in has been correctly associated with Adobe Reader files to view them in the browser in the settings.
I would like to be able to view ...
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How can I view pdf meta-data in Windows Explorer?
I unsuccessfully used the "pages" feature in Windows Explorer, as well as in Directory Opus 10 and Free Commander XT (which I installed just for that reason, to try it out) to display the page count ...
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Outlook can not recognize newer PDF version (like v1.7+) being attached to an email and treats it badly as plain text
When attaching PDF v1.7 to an email in Outlook, it's sent as:
Content-Type: application/pdf;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
When receiving such an e-mail under Linux (Thunderbird), the ...
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create PDF montage in vector format
I have a folder full of images in PDF format, and I would like to merge them all into a single PDF in which there are many images on each page, but still in vector/PDF format. The ImageMagick ...
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Term Frequency in a PDF file
I need to develop a search engine based on the Term frequency in the document, i have a dataset of 17000 PDF documents, Is there a way i can count all the words and their occurrences in a particular ...
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save word 2010 document as pdf with bookmarks
I am saving word-document (master- and subdocuments in MS Word 2010 on Windows 7) as a pdf with the bookmark option (create bookmarks using headings).
Now the funny thing:
It works for all ...
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Change specific font in pdf document
I have a PDF file, which has a buggy font (some d's, o's and q's with black color fill inside the circe) which is annoying to read.
How can i change that specific font in the whole document, keeping ...
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How to view PDF with changed background color?
I have some PDF and want to have light gray background when viewing them, but i don't need to permanently change its background. What's the easiest way to do that? I normally view it using Preview ...
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Endnote X5 : redundant PDF files
I'm using Endnote X5 for Windows.
Even after I removed all the duplicate records from my Endnote library,
I still could find redundant PDF files in the 'PDF' folder.
How could I remove those extra ...
