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Batch resize and compress PDF files

I need a way to size down and compress batches of PDF files. I'd prefer to do this on Windows, but Linux would be fine if it meant a smoother workflow. I know that there's programs such as NitroPDF ...
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First way to increase partition size

What is the first method to increase the size of a system-partition on Windows 7 ? The disk does not have any un-partitioned space. I've tried GParted and it's damn slow :X
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Handbrake: How to retain sharpness when down-sampling video during an encode?

I have a bunch of 1280x720 resolution videos, but I really don't need to have that high resolution, so I thought of re-encoding and resizing them to 852x480 to save some space, but I noticed Handbrake ...
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How do I change the canvas size of a PNG with ImageMagick (GraphicsMagick)? (How to pad with transparency?)

Alternatively: How do I take a non-square PNG and "fill out" the "rest" of the image with transparency so that the resulting square image has the original image centered in the square? ULTIMATELY, ...
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excel 2003: file too big even its empty

I have one excel file that consist of 3 sheets. Each sheet consist of text and image. The file grow up until 171KB. Then I copy one sheet become single file and save as a new file (newbook.xls). And I ...
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increasing size of .disk fat32 file size

I am struggling to increase a .disk image file ( fat32 formatted ). But not getting success. link to file its around 3 mb. After mounting when I put additional files, it says out of space. I have ...
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Disable image attachment resize dialog for new emails in Thunderbird

I think I can manage the size and bandwidth of the images I'm sending via emails myself, but any time a large enough image is attached to a new email, e.g. via Windows Explorer right-clicking an image ...
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Window goes beyond the taskbar in Windows7

When I a drag window left or right, it goes beyond the taskbar as in the picture: How can I prevent this ? So when I maximize a window or drag it to the edge, I want it to stretch until the taskbar, ...
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Dell XPS 15z/ L511Z merging partitions

i have a situation here, i bought a new dell xps 15z and was successful in making drive partitions through the help of this site ...
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How to make a bunch of shapes the same size and have them aligned in Visio 2007

I have a problem where I have a bunch of the same Process shapes together, but because the text in the Process shape is too long, it makes the boxes have different sizes. See below for example: Is ...
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Windows 7: Dual Monitor Issue

I have a Dell laptop with a docking station and two external monitors hooked up. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit. Originally, the two monitors were the same - Dell 1908FP. I have replaced one of them ...
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How can I get Terminal to repaint the contents when I resize the terminal?

A default terminal width might be 80 characters, however the output of a command might have been 100 characters (wider than the width of the terminal), so it spills over and puts 80 characters on one ...
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Re sizing VirtualBox vhd with windows 7 host and windows xp client

I am stuck on one step of resizing a virtual hardisk... I followed the instruction used found in this Youtube video... Video I followed Well that worked. But my windows xp virtual still had the ...
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Does there exist software to analyze and detect 'fake' hi-res images (TIFF when really JPEG, deliberately upscaled images)?

In my line of work I often work with images for print marketing from multiple sources and occasionally when I have asked for hi-res images (instead of initially the low-res ones that they start by ...
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Which resize algorithm to choose for videos?

I'm using VirtualDub for encoding with those settings. However I record my stuff in 1920x1080 and resize it down to 1280x720. Now the question: which algorithm should I choose when making a balanced ...
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Word: Resize Image by Percent - Macro

I routinely paste many screen captures into Microsoft Word 2007 and then have to manually resize them to around 75%, which becomes very tedious. The screen captures are all different sizes. I've ...
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Readline doesn't cope well with terminal resize

If I do a terminal resize, some readline apps (pry in this example) break. Editing a single line still works, but as soon as there's a line wrap, the text continues on the same line, overwriting the ...
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Maximizing after moving RDC window between different size monitors

My Win7 system has two monitors of different sizes. When I open a Remote Desktop Connection on one monitor set to use full screen, both the RDC window and the remote system's desktop fills the ...
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prevent Notepad++ from resizing when a new document is opened

I run notepad++ snapped to the side of my screen (using the Windows 7 Snap feature), however whenever I open a new document in Notepad++ by double clicking on the document from the desktop (as opposed ...
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How to shrink an ext2 partition?

I have an ext2 partition that takes up the whole disk (which is /dev/sdc). I have unplugged the disc and plugged into another (linux) computer. How can I shrink this partition using resize2fs and ...
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How to set terminal size in Android adb shell?

When I connect to Android using "adb shell" and run certain commands such as "vim" or "mc", they are restricted to a "window" of 25x80 characters. Since I'm connecting from a desktop computer where ...
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Resize OS X windows from any corner?

Is there a way to resize windows on the Mac from corners other than the bottom right? I generally work tiled and with multiple monitors, and it's often very very frustrating to have to use the bottom ...
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Auto-resize images when making columns

When I make columns in Word 2007, the images that I have in the text get cutoff. How can I resize them to fit the paper when I have images in-line with text?
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Windows XP freezes on welcome screen after resizing partitions

I am using Windows XP and Linux on a dual boot system and after resizing the partitions, Windows hangs just before login. I shrank the Linux partition and enlarged the Windows partition using GParted. ...
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Can I get 'Lion/Windows-like' window resizing in Snow Leopard?

I'm using Snow Leopard, and I'm finding it unbelievably frustrating that I can only resize windows using a single corner. Is there something I can install that will let me resize any window with any ...
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Windows 7 won't boot unless neighbor HD is turned off

I have two HDs, in one there's a OS-less NTFS partition which I sucessfully shrunk using Linux's gparted utility. On the other drive, I have Windows 7, which since the resize, will only boot on one ...
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KDE auto-shrinks windows?

I have been beating my head against the wall and my Google-fu is failing me. I tried Ubuntu 11.10 and saw Gnome 3. It's horrid. So I thought I'd give KDE4 a shot. My only complaint after a few ...
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AviSynth: How to resize video to 480, keeping aspect ratio

How can i resize a video to 480 pixels high in AviSynth, while maintaining aspect ratio? Assume, for simplicity sake, the Bilinear resize. i've tried: source = DirectShowSource("TheClip.avi") ...
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ImageMagick is truncating (squaring) my icons on resize

Trying to resize from 48x48 icon to 16x16 and the resulting file from imagemagick is 16x16 but cut off around the square. Command: convert -resize "16x16" businessman_add.ico -depth 8 mynew.ico ...
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Resize an image to multiple resolutions simultaneously

I am looking for software (Windows or Linux) that can do the following: Resize one image to several provided sizes. Detects the type of the pic­ture (wide, nor­mal) and does the resize based on ...
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Resize Konsole windows size in Fedora

This may seem to be a silly question, but I googled along and found that most of relevant complaints was about a bug in video card driver. My problem is - For some unknown reason, I can't resize the ...
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fast batch image resizer

looking and cant find the perfect one. i have 100 gig of 4K image-sequence to process. found imagizer2 on sourceforge. multi-thread but not 64bit (does matter?). i guess the fastest one will be ...
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Unable to resize (enlarge) Linux partition

I want to increase the size of my Linux partition (yellow and highlighted in image), which is situated in an extended partition, along with my biggest partition. When I try to select the options ...
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How can I resize an NTFS disk image in Windows?

I saved a disk partition to an .IMG file, but it's only 128MB. What tool can I use to resize it to 256MB and keep it still bootable?
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Shrink LVM partition on Fedora 15

I currently have an install of Fedora 15, which happened to make a LVM volume group that took up the entire disk. Since I want to be able to use the space on the rest of the disk (and don't need a ...
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How to force-resize a window in OS X?

I remember from my Windows XP days that there was a utility that would let me re-size non-re-sizable windows. Is there something like that on OS X? I'm using PandoraJam and it is sort of iframing the ...
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Problem with resizing Subwindows in Eclipse Xming combination

I'm running Eclipse on a Linux server and I'm displaying it locally through xwindow forwarding using xming. Whenever I create something like a subwindow (like opening project properties or the Project ...
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resize2fs seems stuck at pass 3 (scanning inode table) - what to do?

I have a machine running Arch Linux (2010, I believe) with a 6TB RAID-5 array hooked up to a Highpoint RocketRaid 2320. I've been having issues with the RAID controller's drivers and the latest Linux ...
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How do I rescale large images?

How do I reduce the dimensions of large .png images? I've tried GIMP, Paint.NET, and IrfanView, and they work well for smaller images but won't even open larger ones.
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Resizing swap partition (RHEL 5.x)

The following is what parted print outputs: (parted) print Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 26.8GB Sector size ...
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How to resize an .ai file in Photoshop CS4 without reducing image quality?

Am I right to assume you can enlarge .ai files without reducing the image quality? Are these vector files? Also.... can you click & drag the object to make it bigger or do you have to use the ...
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Emacs code for resizing frame

I've been writing some fortran code using emacs, and found that I needed emacs to recognise that the code I'm working on is fortran code (if for example your filename doesn't end in .f or .f90) so ...
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Repartitioning a single drive for dual boot

Can anyone suggest how I can repartition my hard drive which has a single partition containing Windows XP Home? I want to install Ubuntu and make it a dual boot system. The C: drive is 52GB with ...
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How to resize a window so it is larger than the physical screen?

I want to resize a window so it is larger than the physical screen, possibly using free software. I intend to use a GNU software, gvwm, to navigate the different parts of the big window. Description ...
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Recovering damaged filesystem/partition

I wanted to increase the size of my /home (originally about 20GB). /home was on the partition /dev/sda9. There was about 25GB free-unallocated space just after the /dev/sda9 partition. The plan was ...
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Resampling embedded raster images in SVG

I have a batch of SVG files with embedded, high-res PNG images. The PNG files have been resized considerably smaller (via transform, matrix, etc). What is the best way to resample these embedded ...
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Is there a good utility for resizing application windows to preset sizes in OS X?

I've been using the Better Touch Tool and Right Zoom to be able to maximize windows to full screen, and to resize windows to the center, or top right / left quarter of the screen. Those apps are ...
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How can I enlarge an image's pixels on OS X?

I have OS X with Preview and OmniGraffle. In both of these apps, resizing an image to make it larger results in heavy anti-aliasing. I want just big pixels. How can I get that effect instead of the ...
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I have a program whose windowed mode cannot be resized. Any trick/app to force resize?

It can't resize or maximize. I'm on windows 7 64bit. I remember programs where fans have made simple directx apps that launched fullscreen-only games in a window. Is there any app or script I can ...
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How to scale a bitmap in Photoshop without anti-aliasing?

I have this pixely layer which I need to scale 200% in both directions. Since the pixels should be exactly double the size, I expect no anti-aliasing. (fuzziness). However, the newly sized image is ...

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