PDF (Portable Document Format) is an open standard for document exchange.
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Printing files as PDF with syntax highlighting via terminal [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
syntax_highlight <source_file> | lpr
I have about 20 Python scripts that I wish to print as PDF. I wish to print them the way GEdit would allow me to, with:
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How to fix diacritics in PDF forms in Evince?
I happen to live in Czech Republic and we have such letters like ě, š, č, ť, etc in the alphabet and use them everywhere, including addresses. Today I was filling a PDF form in Evince and noticed that ...
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Invert colors in whole PDF (convertion)
How to create pdf with inverted colours of original one?
(Just like inverting whole screen with xcalib -i -a)
Preferably : not loosing hyperlinks. But it's not requirement. It would be nice if ...
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Convert a .jpg to a one page .pdf at a certain location
I'm looking to convert a .jpg into a .pdf, where the .jpg is positioned at a certain coordinate say 30 pixels and centered.
Right now I'm just using:
convert image.jpg image.pdf
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convert single-page landscape pdf into rescaled double-page portrait pdf
I'm having trouble using convert to do the following:
I have a bunch of single-page pdf files whose geometry corresponds to a landscape A4 sheet. The actual content is visually split in 2 pages. ...
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Manipulating a picture pdf
Is there a practical tool to modify (with eraser and pen) a pdf file whose content is a scanned document or a picture taken by a digital camera? If so, which one is good?
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How to query pdf page size from the command line?
For scripting I need to get the page dimensions of a PDF file (in mm).
pdfinfo just prints it in 'pts', e.g.:
Page size: 624 x 312 pts
What should I use?
Or what unit is 'pts' anyway - in ...
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pdf viewer for command line only
Is it possible to view pdf documents without having gdm (or similar) running?
Rationale: I'm working on a remote server (assume no X forwarding) processing some data, creating some plots (assume pdf ...
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Open PDF previewer width specific size and position and “always on top” from command line
I'm using latexmk -pdf -pvc to keep compiling my LaTeX files to PDFs while they are displayed in evince. I'm doing that a lot with different files and I keep needing to zoom the PDF content, resize ...
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Can't view Chinese chars in evince or xpdf
Instead, I get white squares. I have no idea if they are used, but I installed "xfonts-intl-chinese" (didn't work). I googled this issue, and there was a lot of talk about some bug in poppler. But, ...
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How to create a single page PDF file out of multiple EPS files with GhostScript
I'm trying to merge eps files into a pdf file using GS, however, I cannot get it to put multiple eps files without page breaks in between even if original files are small. The command I'm using is:
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Custom title in PDF files when using ps2pdf
I convert .txt files to .ps files with enscript, OK!
After that I use "ps2pdf" to convert the .ps files to .pdf files. OK!
And I can see:
Question: What parameter do I have to use (with enscript ...
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Shell script to detect PDFs with non-ASCII contents
I need a shell script to detect valid PDFs. That is, I need to retain only plain ASCII PDFs. Other PDFs which contain non-ASCII contents and malicious scripts need to be deleted. How could I go about ...
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What program will save a fillable PDF?
There are several nice fillable PDFs available for the RPG hobby. These have boxes that number values can be entered and simple formulas are calculated throughout the sheet. I'm finding that the ...
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jpg to pdf without data loss
Trying to make such things:
1st step:
convert img.jpg img.pdf
2nd step:
pdfimages -j img.pdf img1
Comparing source and extracted images in HEX shows difference. How to make such conversion ...
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Are there any full featured pdf readers that integrate comment function?
I'm not needing reading some research papers whose formats are almost pdf.However I cannot find a good pdf reader which can make some notes while reading.I currently use xournal however there seems ...
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Extracting a file attachment from an email message and saving it to a file?
I have an email stored in plaintext (yes, headers, messages, attachments, everything in one plaintext file) and I'd like to extract a PDF document from it. I've copied the base64-encoded text, then ...
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Strange adobe reader memory usage while selecting text or just holding the click [closed]
I have observed this increase in cpu usage since the ubuntu 8.10, when I started using acroread.
I thought it gonna improve in the near future, but it still exists, and I am not able to find someone ...
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convert djvu to pdf
How to convert djvu2pdf ?
My current approach is :
djvups x.djvu > x.ps
ps2pdf x.ps
Is there more efficient and better (in terms of output quality, data/metadata loss) way to handle that ?
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How to extract annotations from PDF files?
Is there a command-line tool to extract annotations (comments added using evince) from PDF-files?
I search such a solution to send people feedback on their submitted documents. Apart from replying ...
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Remove watermarks from pdf file
Is it possible to remove annoying watermarks from pdf file in Linux?
For example, every page contains text
This file was merged by application XY.
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Does using epub2pdf pose a potential security risk? Is there an alternative?
epub2pdf is a fairly platform-independent program. Based on Java, it executes without a hitch on my machine, with no dependencies.
However, strangely enough, the program requires an active internet ...
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Lightweight feature-rich alternatives to OpenOffice and LibreOffice
I really like LibreOffice however I'm having issues with it freezing up and I can't seem to start a new instance of the writer on multiple desktops (I'm using dwm and want several documents open).
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convert pdf to image [jpeg|png]
I need to convert pdf files into image files (like: png (prefer), jpeg).
I used convert (from the ImageMagick package) but it takes more than 4 seconds for a 2 page pdf file with only tables ...
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Is there some sort of PDF to text -converter?
I need PDF files to text so I can search over them in bulk from commandline. Is there some converter for Ubuntu, OBSD or similar distro?
Perhaps related post, OCR with ubuntu here.
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Is GNU PDF Library in active development?
I've been hearing about The GNU PDF Library since 2007. Since then I've been looking forward to see this tool in the wild, but four years have passed and it seems to me that this is a painfully long ...
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How to search in PDF files recursively? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
grep pdf files?
With a Linux machine, ex.: an Ubuntu, how can I search for a given word recursively in several PDFs?
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Javascript Adobe Reader problem in some linux distributions
Adobe Reader doesn't execute initial javascript code of 3D scene in pdf document. With friends we've tested several linux distributions, namely CentOS, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Mandriva, OpenSUSE. Also ...
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Looking for an efficient way to display PDFs
I've used several unix tools to display PDFs, like xpdf, evince, epdfview…
What I'm looking for is not very complicated.
I'd like to display a full page inside the application window with reduced ...
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Does Printing a PDF to PDF degrade its quality?
Say I have a PDF of a website which is very long. After reading some of it, I decide there are extraneous pages in it; but rather than finding the website every time I decide to eliminate a page, I ...
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convert - unrecoverable error when pdf to jpg
When I'm converting pdf to jpg with the following command
$ convert -density 300 file.pdf file.jpg
I'm getting this error.
Last OS error: 2 GPL Ghostscript 8.71: Unrecoverable error, exit code
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Embeded video in PDF
I'm creating a presentation that will have embedded video in it (using beamer).
The issue is that I can't make this work on Linux.
I have downloaded some example presentations that contained video, ...
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How to convert a PDF file to a DVD movie?
Each page would be navigable with the player's 'next' button. The result should have a directory called VIDEO_TS, to ensure it will play in old players.
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Modifying PDF files
I need to do some basic editing on existing PDF file. I.e. I need to:
Add chapters/bookmarks
Change some page numbering
However I cannot find any tool - GUI or commandline - which would offer this ...
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Possible to extract title and pagenum of each page in a pdf file
I was wondering if there are some ways to extract title and pagenum of each page in a pdf file? Either by some applications, or by programming in some programming language with some pdf libraries?
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Rotate pdf pages: 90 degree for even pages and -90 degree for odd pages
I was wondering in a pdf file, how to rotate pdf pages: 90 degree for even pages and -90 degree for odd pages?
By pdftk, all I know is to rotate a page by pdftk in.pdf cat 1W output out.pdf, and ...
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How to change height and width of each page of a pdf
I was wondering how to change width and height of each page of a pdf?
In my scanned pdf, each page has paper size too big, 31.98 × 49.20 inch. I would like to shrink the width and height to smaller ...
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Convert a folder of images into a multi-page pdf file usind command line tools?
I have a folder with 100 jpg images. I want to convert these images into a multi-page pdf file, with all the images (cropped to A4 size). They are already in the correct rotation.
Which tools should ...
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How to know if a pdf file is compressed or not and to (un)compress it
I just learned that pdf files can be compressed to reduce its disk size.
I was wondering how to know if a pdf file has already been compressed?
What applications/commands can be used to compress or ...
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How to view and edit the code of a pdf file
I was wondering how to view and edit the code of a pdf file?
By viewing, I don't want to see the binary format, so I think hexdump may not be what I want. I tried gedit,
but no encoding method can ...
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SWF to PDF conversion
Are there any tools for converting SWF to PDF? I have a bunch of SWF files (to be ripped from the web) and I'd like to group them into single PDF.
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insert a blank page into a PDF using ghostscript or pdftk
I have a PDF file that needs a blank page inserted into it every so often. The pattern is unpredictable, so I need a command that will allow me to fit one in wherever necessary.
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Use convert or ghostscript to grab the odd-numbered pages of a PDF
I have a PDF that consists of several hundred pages of bilingual text. Since I need to use OCR on each language separately, I want to grab the even and odd pages and make two separate PDFs, using ...
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Use convert to grab a specific page from a PDF file?
I know I have done this before, so I'm sure it's possible, I just forget how to do it. There's a way to tell convert to grab a specific page of a PDF, and I'd like to keep the format of that page as ...
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Extract graphs from PDFs
I have a situation where I need to extract images from lots of PDF files and display them on a website. My PDFs have "regular" images as well as lots of graphs.
I used pdf2xml and it pulls out the ...
