PDF (Portable Document Format) is an open standard for document exchange.
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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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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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1answer
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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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Stitch two JPEGs together into a PDF
I need to take two 8.5in by 11in JPEG images and merge them together into two pages of a PDF. Is there a commandline or GUI tool to help me do this?
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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votes
1answer
656 views
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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1answer
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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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How to create indexes in a pdf?
iPdf is rotten.
Is there any other software or any other way by which an "index" can be created in a pdf file?
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1answer
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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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How do I 'unbook' a pdf
I have a pdf file that was made into a booklet format. It is meant to print on A4 paper in landscape orientation; here are two pages in the pdf, which should correspond to four pages in the actual ...
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1answer
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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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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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Convert pdf file to epub
Is to possible to convert pdf file to epub format without errors? Is there some application in Linux that can do it? I found only ecub and calibre which gives not good results or fail.
Command-line ...
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1answer
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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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votes
1answer
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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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1answer
471 views
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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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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1answer
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Find links and their positions in a PDF
I need to find all links in a PDF file, along with the page they're on and their X/Y position. Is there any tool or combination of tools I can use to do that?
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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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1answer
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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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convert images to pdf: How to make PDF Pages same size
I did something like
convert -page A4 -compress A4 *.png CH00.pdf
But the 1st page is much larger than the subsequent pages. This happens even though the image dimensions are similar. These images ...
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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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1answer
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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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votes
1answer
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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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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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How to convert TXT to PDF?
I want to convert .txt files to .pdf. I'm using this:
ls | while read ONELINE; do convert -density 400 "$ONELINE" "$(echo "$ONELINE" | sed 's/.txt/.pdf/g')"; done
But this produces one "error" -- ...
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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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Add and edit bookmarks to pdf
By getting metadata from some pdf files with bookmarks by pdftk, I observe the format of bookmarks in pdf metadata. So I am guessing that with pdftk, it is possible to add and edit bookmarks of a pdf ...
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How to preserve bookmarks when rearranging pages of a PDF file with tools like pdftk?
I am using pdftk to rearrange pages of a pdf file with bookmarks/outlines, but after that, the output file lost the bookmarks of the original.
My command is pdftk in.pdf cat 1-22 43 23-42 44-end ...
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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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1answer
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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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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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Xpdf fit to page width in fullscreen mode
When I call the command:
$ xpdf file.pdf -z width -fullscreen
...it does not have the desired effect.
The individual options:
$ xpdf file.pdf -z width
...and:
$ xpdf file.pdf -fullscreen
...
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Split pages in pdf
I have a scanned pdf file which has scanned two pages on one virtual page (page in pdf file).
The resolution is with good quality. The problem is I have to zoom when reading and drag from left to the ...
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votes
1answer
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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 ...
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4answers
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pdf to jpg without quality loss; gscan2pdf
When I convert a pdf file to bunch of jpg files using
convert -quality 100 file.pdf page_%04d.jpg
I have appreciable quality loss.
However if I do the following, there is no (noticeable) quality ...
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grep pdf files?
Is there a way to search pdf files using the power of grep, without converting to text first in Ubuntu?
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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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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 ...
