PDF (Portable Document Format) is an open standard for document exchange.
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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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View pdf file in terminal
I want to see pdf files available on our cluster rather than copying them into my local machine and than visualize.
Please tell me how can i do this.
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How can I convert a PNG to a PDF in high quality so it's not blurry or fuzzy?
There are a lot of questions out there about how to convert a PDF file to a PNG image, but I'm looking to take a nice sharp PNG file and just basically wrap it or embed it in a PDF file without having ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to merge 2 PDF files with interleaving pages order?
I've got a double-side-printed multipage document to scan with a linear bulk scanner. So, as the result I get 2 PDF files: one containing all odd pages and the second containing all even pages. I need ...
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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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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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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 convert pdf to eBook format
Is there a way to convert a PDF document into an eBook format such as epub, azw or mobi?
I am looking for an application, which is fast in conversion. I have just tried calibre. After 10 minutes not ...
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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 merge pdf files so that each file begins on an odd page number?
I need to merge a few dozed pdfs, and i want all of the input pdfs to start on an odd page in the output pdf.
Example: A.pdf has 3 pages, B.pdf has 4 pages. I don't want my output to have 7 pages. ...
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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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How to make ghostscript not wipe PDF metadata
Ghostscript wipes the PDF metadata like author, title, subject etc. How can I tell ghostscript not to touch the metadata? I invoke it as follows:
gs \
-dBATCH \
-dNOPAUSE ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Export terminal display to PDF
I want to include the display of my terminal in a beamer presentation. Simply taking a screenshot, however, produces a fairly low-resolution png that looks poor in the presentation. I would like it ...
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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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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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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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Send a fax via SIP
How can I send a fax from my Linux machine using a SIP connection? I don't have a modem.
Ideally, I'd like to provide a PDF or TIFF file, and send it via my SIP provider. Is this possible?
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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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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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Split PDF into documents with several pages each
There are several resources on the web explaining how one can split a PDF into many files with on page per file.
But how can you split them into chunks of, say, five pages each? I have looked into ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How can I convert raw printer commands back to a postscript or pdf file?
I have a string of raw printer commands that are for my postscript printer saved to a file.
I believe there is a lpr option like -o raw which will read these raw command and send them to the printer.
...
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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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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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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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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 save a copy of a protected PDF form in Evince?
I've got a pretty long PDF form from my ISP and filled it carefully. Willing to save my work of filling it I've tried to use File - Save a copy.... But Evince says it can't save it because it is ...
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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 ...
