Questions tagged [adobe-acrobat]
Adobe Acrobat is Adobe's family of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) management software.
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How can I split in half a double-page scanned PDF in a single pass?
I have a scanned course and it has two pages, consecutive are showing as one page, how can I automatically split all the pages in one pass. Usually this is done by cropping odd and even pages and then ...
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How to save a rotated Adobe PDF file
I received an Adobe PDF scan of a document that displays upside-down.
I rotated it inside Adobe Acrobat and chose Save As to make a new document, however, the rotation is not saved and when I open ...
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Two-page view in full screen for Adobe Acrobat
Since i'm using a wide screen, i want to view two page in full screen while reading PDF. I can view two page in Reading Mode or normal view. however, whenever i switch to full screen mode, acrobat ...
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How do I remove a usage restriction from a PDF file? [duplicate]
I have made usage restrictions to a PDF file and protected it with a password. Now I would like to remove the protection to allow my self to do more with the document. Doing a Google search for "...
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How to create PDF with scanned pages but selectable text?
Today I recieved a PDF from our supplier and it contained several printed and scanned pages with signatures etc. I opened it in Acrobat Reader DC. But to my surprise the text from the evidently ...
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Why do fonts look messed up in Adobe Acrobat?
When I open a PDF in a non-Acrobat PDF viewer, they look fine, but when I open one in Acrobat, the fonts look absolutely terrible. They look very low resolution and I'm not sure how to increase them.
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Stop Microsoft Word 2010 from smoothing screenshots?
When I insert JPEG screenshots into Microsoft Word, it smoothes them instead of preserving the original pixels from the bitmap. When I then print to PDF (using Acrobat Distiller), depending on my ...
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Find Key of Installed and Activated instance Adobe Acrobat Professional without using 3rd party tools
Have several copies of Acrobat Professional that were purchased previously, installed and activated. However there is no documentation of the serial numbers, the Adobe online account ID or any details ...
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Adjust PDF Contrast with Adobe Reader/Acrobat?
We get PDF's from our professor to read for homework but they're often scanned documents, is there a way to adjust the contrast of the text to make it easier to read?
Edit: I've got Photoshop but is ...
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Open the same PDF multiple times
Is it possible to open the same PDF multiple times with Adobe Reader?
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How to crop permanently in Acrobat?
After cropping anything by using the crop tool in Adobe Acrobat, how do I ensure that the cropped area is fixed and can't be seen even when I increase the crop margin?
For example: how would I crop ...
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How to find out WHERE a specific font is used in a PDF document
For a given PDF which uses a number of fonts (e.g., in Acrobat Reader, the fonts used can be seen when selecting Files > Properties > Fonts) how can I find out where a certain font is used in the ...
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How to browse the internal PDF structure in Adobe Acrobat?
How to Browse Internal PDF Structure in Adobe Acrobat 9.0? I didn't find the advanced menu that has this option.
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Batch-OCR many PDFs
This has been discussed a year ago here:
Batch OCR for many PDF files (not already OCRed)?
Is there any way to batch OCR PDFs that haven't been already OCRed? This is, I think, the current state of ...
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How to set "Enable scrolling" as default in Adobe Acrobat 11
I have Acrobat Adobe 11.0.07 for OSX and I can't find a way to set "Enable scrolling" (in "View" -> "Page Display" as a default option.
Is there a way?
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Fonts in PDF files: How do I ensure that a font will render properly across platforms/readers?
I created a document in MS Word (2007) and then published to PDF with the intention of creating a document that looks the same regardless of platform or pdf reader choice.
It looks fine on a couple ...
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Is there software to allow me to search a PDF file with Regex? [closed]
I would like a PDF viewer that I can search documents with using regular expressions. Is there such a thing? I've tried PowerGrep, but it doesn't have a graphical viewer and its interface is a little ...
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Can I make acrobat reader reload a changed pdf?
With lots of document readers (okular, xpdf, skim, ghostview) the viewer will reload a document if it is changed. Can acrobat reader do this?
Ubuntu linux 9.04, acroread 8.1.3
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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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How to convert PDF/A to normal PDF?
I can't do many things with PDF/A format files that I could do with regular PDF files
such as 'cropping' the document etc.
How can I convert PDF/A to normal PDF document?
I installed PitStop pro but ...
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Why does Adobe Acrobat scroll so slowly, and what can I do about it?
I often am forced to view long PDF documents either in browser or out of browser. When I'm forced to use such documents, it's always frustrating, because whenever I scroll the document, the viewer "...
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Split pages of scanned PDF
I have a scanned PDF (two vertical pages on one horizonatal page). How can I split them to be single pages in Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended?
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What command-line options are available in Adobe Acrobat (not Reader) for modifying documents (Convert, Merge, etc.)?
See title. I'd like to convert a bunch of XML files to PDF using Adobe Acrobat (9.0).
Currently, I'm opening each of these files with IE and then convert them manually using the Acrobat Plugin.
I'm ...
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Poor quality PNG image when printing to PDF in Word 2010
I have a transparent PNG:
The PNG file above was created from an EPS file to a high-resolution PNG, then resized using Photoshop.
I am placing this image into a Word file on a cover page. The cover ...
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Microsoft Edge keeps taking over PDF file open/association
Every few days the file association for PDFs on my Windows 10 machine switches to Microsoft Edge.
I then right click on a PDF, choose "Open With -> Choose Another App", select Acrobat from the list, ...
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How do I edit a PDF in Acrobat if it rather than LiveCycle
I want to edit the the fields of a PDF in Acrobat using Forms->Add or Edit Fields which I know how to use.
Unfortunately, a new form I want to edit seems to have been made in LiveCycle designer ...
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Why are Acrobat PDF tags not shown in Windows?
I have added tags such as Author, Subject and Title to some new PDF files I created. But they are not shown in Windows when I view file properties. Why?
In order to see this information I have to ...
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Is ISO 32000-2:2017 (PDF 2.0) really an open or free format? [closed]
Is it open?
According to Wikipedia, PDF is an open format.
But the ISO charges 198 Swiss francs for you to download the PDF 2.0 specification.
Now according to free_file_format (first ref in the ...
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How do I scroll multiple lines (thus faster) in Adobe Acrobat Reader?
When I scroll a PDF with the mouse (two-finger gesture on a laptop to be more precise) the scrolling is way too slow. I am not referring to rendering issues nor some kind of lag. Simply put, the ...
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Converting Word forms to PDF (fill in) forms?
I've got Acrobat Pro 8 and Word 2003.
I've got a form in Word creating using form fields. What I want to do is convert this document to a "fill in" PDF form automatically. In other words, replacing ...
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How do I set default view preferences in Adobe Acrobat?
In Acrobat Pro, I try to set preferences (open in "page-width" view and use "one-page continuous) but it only makes changes for the document I have open, not as default for every time I open.
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Word document to PDF: open hyperlinks in new window
I have a Microsoft Word document with hyperlinks in it. When I save it as a PDF document, those hyperlinks no longer open that link in a new window. I have tried all the settings under the "Target ...
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Disable Adobe Sign-in - Acrobat DC
I've packaged an install for Acrobat DC using the Creative Cloud Packager, everything installs correctly but during testing I noticed that every time I launch Acrobat DC or open a PDF a window will ...
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How to print Acrobat PDF file without the images
I have a image-heavy PDF file and want to print part of it. Is there a way to print it without the images, but preserving the file layout (Save as Text is not an option, because it breaks the layout). ...
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How to make the first page of a PDF display by itself and the succeeding pages display two-up?
When creating an e-book using Adobe Acrobat 8.2.1 on OS X 10.6.5, is there a way to make Adobe Acrobat (or Adobe Reader) display the pages as follows:
p1
p2 p3
p4 p5
p6
rather than:
p1 ...
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How to change the display theme in Adobe Acrobat Reader permanently?
I would like to change the display theme of Adobe Reader under windows to Light Gray (it is Dark Gray now). I did this and it works: Go to View -> Display Theme -> Light Gray.
The problem with ...
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Increasing margins of all pages in a pdf file
I need to increase the top and bottom margins of all the pages in a pdf file, or alternatively increase the size of each page so as to add a little white space at the top and the bottom. How can I do ...
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Resizing pages in Adobe Acrobat Pro
I am using Acrobat Professional 8 to assemble a document from two imported page images (JPGs). Acrobat seems to interpret the images at screen resolution, and creates a document that's about 35" by 46"...
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How to analyze the space usage within pdf document?
I have this 7mb pdf that I made from 65 scanned B/W images. After OCR, the document becomes 32mb.
I have never seen text taking up so much space. (in theory 25mb should give me 25 million letters ...
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This action cannot be completed because the file is open in another application - Adobe PDF
I have about 190 Adobe PDF files that contain Cisco CCNA Labs. I have the files in a folder on my desktop called "CCNA Labs". For some reason, I can rename the files without any issues, but as ...
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Adobe Acrobat: How to batch to combine multiple pdf files?
I have 3 folders:
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3
In each folder I have 5 pdf files:
Folder 1
file1.pdf
file2.pdf
Folder 2
file1.pdf
file2.pdf
Folder 3
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Is it safe to remove the Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Professional setup files?
I have a folder located within Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0 that contains the setup files and takes up a lot of disk space.
Can I remove it safely, and why doesn't the Adobe installer ...
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Adobe Acrobat DC - Removing or editing the giant menu bar
Adobe DC now shows a giant menu bar at the top, with Home / Tools / Documents / etc. This bar is annoying, because, at least by default, it takes up a huge piece of the screen, and shows Adobe ads ...
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How do I extract highlighted text only from PDF files in Adobe Acrobat Pro version 9?
I'm reading a lot of pdf articles in Adobe Acrobat Pro and highlighting specific sections.
I would like to know if it is possible to extract just the text I highlighted from these pdf files?
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Can Acrobat 11 be made to do OCR using multiple CPU cores?
OCR processing takes time. Using multiple CPU cores would speed up processing. Acrobat 10 was not a multithreaded application. How about Acrobat 11? Does 11 by default do OCR using multiple CPU cores (...
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Is there a free PDF printer / distiller that creates signable documents? [closed]
I've used various methods (mentioned elsewhere on this site) to create PDFs, using a printer driver or converting from PostScript, etc. The common problem is that if I open any of the output files in ...
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PDFs keep automatically downloading in Chrome -- how do I stop?
In Windows 10, Chrome 83 now automatically downloads PDFs anytime I click a PDF link or click to download a PDF email attachment. This is also happening in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC v2018.011.20058.
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Export Adobe Acrobat comments of a PDF into a text file?
I have many PDFsf with 100s of annotations/comments in them, created through the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. By reading this official guide, and skimming trough related pages, I see that I can "...
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How can I efficiently change a typeface throughout a whole PDF?
Suppose that a PDF contains typefaces X and Y throughout. This refers to the following command that I don't see in my Adobe Acrobat:
Edit -> Find & Replace -> Replace Font
How can I change ...
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Why does transparency disable subpixel rendering in Adobe Reader?
I normally prefer Adobe Reader (still v9 on Linux) to all other PDF viewers because I think it has the best rendering quality, even though others have caught up lately. This rendering quality appears ...
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