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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How Can I Convert Github-Flavored Markdown To A PDF
I have recently started learning Markdown for use with documentation, and need to print out a few of my Markdown pages. I would like to use a command-line, Terminal, etc. utility that allows me to ...
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How to compare the differences between two PDF files on Windows?
Do you know a good way to compare PDF files side-by-side and show the modifications between the two?
I'm looking for Windows software to accomplish this. It would be great if you can post both free ...
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Combine/merge PDF files in Windows? [closed]
Is there a painless way to combine/merge PDF files in Windows? I understand that pdftk will do it on Linux.
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How to convert a PDF document to PNG?
Is there a free way to convert a PDF document to a PNG image?
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Why does Chrome sometimes download a PDF instead of opening it? [duplicate]
When I go to certain addresses of PDF files, Chrome downloads the PDF instead of opening it using its built-in PDF viewer. The page is then blank white.
There is no problem with my Chrome settings: I ...
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How to know which fonts are used in selected part of a PDF document
I'm using Foxit Reader as default PDF viewer. How can I see what type of font is used for a selected part of a PDF document?
(If this can only be done with another software, I'd prefer a freeware as ...
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How can I fix/repair a corrupted PDF file?
Does anyone have any recommendation or procedures for repairing a corrupt PDF? When I open the file I get "There was an error opening this document. the file is damaged and cannot be repaired." ...
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How to remove security from a PDF file?
I am trying to fill out some docs, but the provided PDFs are "SECURED", meaning I can't use FoxIt's typewriter tools.
Is there any way to remove the security?
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Convert a PDF to greyscale on the command line in FLOSS?
I have a colour PDF file, and I'm going to print it out and then photocopy it in black and white. I'd like to know what it's like in B&W before photocopying it. Is it possible to 'greyscale' a PDF ...
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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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Count the number of words in a PDF file
How can I get the word count of a PDF file? I think that most pdf files for which I want to get total word count have text layer embedded, so I need no OCR.
The task was arisen from searching for ...
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What's the back button of Adobe PDF Reader after clicking a hyperlink whose target is on the same document?
PDF documents have hyperlinks to the contents on the same document (analogous to "#section" hrefs for an HTML document). Where's the back button to go back to the page I was on (where I ...
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How do I convert a DjVu document to PDF in Linux using only command line tools?
I've got some documents in DjVu which I'll like convert to PDF. Is there a way to do this using command line OSS tools?
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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 replace a single page in a pdf using another pdf in linux?
I want to find out the easiest way to replace a single page in a multiple page PDF with another single page PDF in Linux. What tool is best for this?
Currently I do it like this:
split pdf to ...
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Stop PDFs from displaying inside Google Chrome
When I click on a PDF link in Chrome, it opens automatically inside the browser window. How can I get it to download instead and open with an external viewer?
Update:
I implemented djhowell's ...
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Export PowerPoint to PDF with each animation on a separate slide
I have a PowerPoint presentation where I extensively use simple animations, only appear/disappear effects triggered by the mouse (not time based), without any smooth transitions.
Is it possible to ...
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Convert many images to one PDF on Mac
How can I convert about 100 PNGs to one PDF on a Mac? I'm open to using the command line if it helps.
I have tried using iPhoto, but it quits, not sure why. Saving from Preview doesn't quite do what ...
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Split PDF document from command line in Linux?
I would like to extract page ranges from a PDF document into a new PDF document using the command line in Linux. Note that:
PDFtk - The PDF Toolkit fails for me with:
$ pdftk input.pdf cat 1 verbose ...
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How to read an ACSM file on Linux?
So, I needed the Semantics Engineering with PLT Redex textbook to complete a homework assignment this week. I needed it in a digital format because I'm going to POPL 2016 tomorrow and I can't have it ...
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Export word document with high resolution PNG to PDF
I have a nice high resolution PNG. (Download from Dropbox)
When I paste this into a new Word document, it looks good. I can't zoom in more than 500% but at that zoom level all lines are smooth, as ...
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View list of embedded fonts in PDF file with Preview
In Acrobat Reader I can go to File > Properties to see all the metadata for the open PDF file: the program that created the document, author information, embedded fonts, etc.
OS X's Preview can also ...
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How to extract vectors from a PDF file?
I have a PDF file with vector images inside it. (I downloaded it from the internet, so I do not have any originals.)
I wish to extract the vectors so that I can overlay them on some other images; use ...
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Why are PDFs generated from MS Word so large?
I created a simple MS Word document containing just this sentence:
This is a small document.
Nothing else. Then I've saved this document as DOCX and a PDF. Here are the file sizes:
DOCX: 12 kB
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Can't copy text from a pdf file
I am using foxit PDF reader to view my text book. I would like to copy the text from the pdf file into a word document but it won't let me. I can select the text fine but the option to copy text is ...
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How to merge pdf:s using Imagemagick (resolution problem)
When I try to merge two .pdf files using Imagemagick
convert pdf1.pdf pdf2.pdf temp.pdf
the resulting temp.pdf file seems to have very low resolution. How can I keep the resolution same as in the ...
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Is it possible to delete some pages of a pdf document?
How do I remove some pages of a .pdf file? I tried some tips mentioned in different websites, but to no avail.
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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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How to extract image from PDF file
I currently use Foxit's PDF reader, and I recently downloaded an image from the Internet, but it is inside a PDF file. How do I extract this image?
Operating system is Windows 7.
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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 cetera....
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How to convert a 1 page PDF to a 2 page per sheet PDF?
I would like to print a PDF so that on the front of the first page are the first two pages, on the back the 3rd and 4th and so on.
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How to convert a webpage to PDF with preserving its look (exactly as on web browser) and text/links?
I'm looking for a way to convert a webpage to PDF, but preserving the webpage's look. Also preserving webpage's text (being selectable), searchable [Generating image screenshot for the webpage would ...
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How to merge multiple PDF files onto one page with pdftk?
I have a range of PDF files 1.pdf, 2.pdf, etc. that I would like to merge into one file, with all the PDFs tiled on one page.
Currently, I have tried pdftk to merge these files, but they are put on ...
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How to change internal page numbers in the meta data of a PDF?
I have a pdf document I created through non-Acrobat means (printing to pdf, then merging a bunch of pdfs), but I'd like to manually change the page numbers (i.e. the first several pages are simply ...
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How does less display PDFs?
I have tried several programs: pdftotext, pdf2txt.py, ... All of them can extract text from PDFs, but the one which is doing the better job is good ol' less: the text from the PDF has a proper layout. ...
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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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How to search inside PDFs with Windows Search?
I'd like to use Windows Search for searching through multiple PDFs in one go, but I see that in the Indexing Options' Advanced Options screen, PDF files don't have a registered IFilter:
What is an ...
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Is the pdftotext command line tool for mac?
I would like to know if there is mac version of linux command line tool pdftotext?
pdftotext
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How to convert Word (doc) to PDF in linux?
I have a set of files in .doc format, that need to be converted to .pdf format. I am using Ubuntu linux.
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Are there tools available for trimming PDF margins?
I have an ebook I'm trying to read in PDF format on a Kindle. Unfortunately, the page headers and footers have some content (page number and copyright info, respectively) preventing the device from ...
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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 to extract text from pdf in script on Linux?
On Linux - How to extract text from a .pdf in which text really is text, not a scanned image?
I want something I can use on the command line / in a script, not interactively.
(I don't want to convert ...
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How to copy text out of a PDF without losing formatting?
When I copy text out of a PDF file and into a text editor, it ends up mangled in a variety of ways. Formatting like bold and italics are lost; soft line breaks within a paragraph of text are converted ...
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correctly sizing PNG images in markdown with pandoc for html/pdf/docx
I am trying to use markdown with pandoc to convert a single document into html, pdf, and docx. It's an extremely simple document containing only math-less text and a few images. The images are in ...
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How to remove a watermark from a PDF file?
I thought this would be a simple task, but it turned out the other way.
The watermark is the very same (overlapping, but transparent) image on every single page. I created the PDF file myself (so no ...
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How to extract text with OCR from a PDF on Linux?
How do I extract text from a PDF that wasn't built with an index? It's all text, but I can't search or select anything. I'm running Kubuntu, and Okular doesn't have this feature.
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Make Chrome always open PDFs itself
I'm looking for a way to make Google Chrome always open PDFs with its internal viewer when I click a link, as opposed to downloading it to the default location. It works with most URLs, but some ...
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Removing PDF usage restrictions [duplicate]
I have several PDF documents which have the "no copy" and "no print" restriction bits set. Are there any free tools for removing such restrictions, on Linux?
I tried pdf2ps | ps2pdf but the size ...
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How do I decrypt a password-protected PDF on OSX?
I have a PDF that requires a password to view. I know what the password is. I frequently open this PDF to print it, and find entering the password each time incredibly annoying. How can I remove the ...
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Acrobat Reader & saving last page I read?
I like to read eBooks, but I tend to have a hard time keeping track on which page I am in which file. Is there a bookmark function or something similar that I'm not aware of?
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