PDF (Portable Document Format) is an open standard for document exchange.
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How to convert a pdf to 4-up in landscape mode (ideally using ghostscript)?
I have pdf slides in landscape mode and would like to create a new pdf file containing the slides 4-up (in landscape mode again) like this:
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| 1 | 2 |
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| 3 ...
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Looking for a good interactive pdf viewer
I like zathura for its simple UI, very nice for just reading.
I like xournal for its rich annotation features.
But what I still need is a reader that
is interactive,
has a "find" feature,
is able ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How do I extract the colours from a PDF?
I have a PDF and I want to verify the colours being used (check that they match our corporate colour scheme for instance). Specifically, I want to check that the correct CMYK colours are being used.
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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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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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Storing Okular PDF annotations and metadata in the PDF itself
The PDF viewer Okular (part of KDE desktop) has lots of nice features and supports lots of file formats.
One of the things I like about it is the comments and annotations.
Unfortunately, all of the ...
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How do you output an info page to pdf?
If man -t ls | ps2pdf - > ls.pdf is useful for outputting the ls man page via ps2pdf to pdf, what about info pages?
I've tried something like the following but with no success:
info -o info | ...
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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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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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Change zathuras display mode to single page only
I recently switched from Debian to Arch. Now I have a newer version of zathura, which displays the pages continuously. For poppler as well as mupdf. I need the discrete display mode. Is this fixed ...
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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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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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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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Insert bookmark in .pdf file for print
I have searched many solutions on what is the best way to search a .pdf, and if a page named spec_out is located in the .pdf it will insert the first bookmark before other bookmarks as Spec Out. I'm ...
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Implementing a String -> PDF Stamp tool
I wrote a little shell function which creates a fixed-size PDF file (A4) from a character string using gs:
make_stamp() {
file=$1
string=$2
tmp=${file}-small.pdf
gs -o "$tmp" -sDEVICE=pdfwrite ...
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Convert to postscript format using the Backend command before sending to a printer
Without using CUPS is there an way to add something on the Backend line in the print queue to convert all print sent to a queue to postscript from PDF format before sending the output to the printer?
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PDF tool similar to ImageMagick
I was introduced to ImageMagick a few months back for manipulating images for print but now I'm curious to know if anyone has seen one for .pdf? I would like to create scripts that will check or ...
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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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Splitting large PDF into small files
Using pdftk it is possible to extract page ranges from a pdf using
pdftk a.pdf cat 124-end output b.pdf dont_ask
I have a bunch of huge PDFs with about 500 pages and over 100 MB, is it possible to ...
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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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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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Convert ps to pdf by ps2pdf, but the pdf file is not well-behaved
I have a ps file,and converted it to a pdf file using ps2pdf.
ps2pdf elden.ps elden.pdf
When I open the pdf file in evince, and try to select some text in it using my mouse, the selected content ...
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how to pdfjoin landscape and portrait oriented JPEG images to one PDF file?
I have some JPEG files. Most of them are landscape oriented, but some are portrait oriented.
I want to combine them into one big PDF file. I tried pdfjoin but this results in all images beeing ...
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Acroread Firefox plugin Ubuntu 12.04 issues
Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, every time I try to open a PDF through Firefox (which I like to do quite often as I read a lot of PDF documents and downloading each then deleting is tiresome) I get ...
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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 change font substitutions in kpdf?
I'm trying to read a pdf that was created with MSWord using Garamond and kpdf is substituting 'Deja Vu Sans'. But I've got Palladio! Where can I change it?
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troff to PDF conversion
I am very new to UNIX and trying to learn troff. I have some set of very old written troff files (before 20 years from now).
Some samples are hereunder:
file_00.g
B,4.5,3.5,15.5,23.5
...
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How do I unbooklet a PDF-booklet? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I 'unbook' a pdf
I'm not shure that what I have is actually a booklet, or a book. I have a paper in A4-format consisting of 96 pages (plus coverpages). I ...
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PDF editor with regular expressions for bookmarks?
Are there any Unix-based PDF editors with automatic bookmark creation?
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Rescale a PDF file [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change height and width of each page of a pdf
Is it possible to rescale a PDF file (retaining perspective) to be within a maximum width / height?
Rendering to an ...
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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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Is there a pdf viewer capable of opening multiple documents in the same window?
I would like to open all chapters of my PDF ebooks in the same window but neither evince nor okular seems to be capable of doing that (at least not out-of-the-box).
Is there a way to work this out?
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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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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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Unable to open EPS files
I am unable to open eps files in my machine. I have attached the screenshots of what happens when try to view a eps file with default pdf viewer and ghost script viewer (gv). The condition is same ...
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Acrobat Reader and PCManFM don't play nice in E17
I am using Arch Linux, and I was using Awesome WM for quite some time before switching to E17 recently.
For the past year, I think, I was using PCManFM as my file manager, and being dissatisfied with ...
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What is required for qxd support for opening pdf docs under linux for pocket book?
I just wondered to read PDF book formatted with QXD (quarkxpress) on pocket Linux.
What is required for ?
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how to download pdf from http site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to download specific files from some url path with wget
I want to download pdf files from this site.
I tried wget -r -l 1 ...
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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 ...
