PDF (Portable Document Format) is an open standard for document exchange.
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emblem for pdf created by libreoffice
If I create a test pdf file in a directory, by using something like
ls -al > testpdf.pdf
the file is shown in Caja 1.4.0 with an understandable emblem that is 'acrobat-like'.
If I create a ...
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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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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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Split PDF into colour and black/white pages
I would like to automatically split a large PDF document into two files: one file should contain only the pages with black and white content, and the other should contain only the pages with any ...
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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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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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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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PDF editor with regular expressions for bookmarks?
Are there any Unix-based PDF editors with automatic bookmark creation?
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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 ?
