Documents in the Portable Document Format, created by Adobe Systems, and readable with Adobe Reader, Apple Preview, and other software programs
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ReadItLater-type app that saves web articles but also allows highlighting?
I use Pocket and I love it as a way of saving articles to read them later, and how it allows me to browse, search, and read them easily.
However, when I read articles, I like to create highlights ...
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How to not compress inserted pictures in Powerpoint 2011 for Mac?
I am trying to make a presentation for a conference, and am facing a problem that I cannot solve. I have a powerpoint presentation initially created with Powerpoint 2010 for Windows. I am facing ...
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Is there character spacing feature in PDFpen?
I am trying out the demo version of PDFpen and can't figure out a way to adjust the character spacing. My text edit ended up like this:
The first line is a result from PDFpen editing and the second ...
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Adobe reader XI font error with Chrome > print > save as pdf
I have a strange error with Adobe Reader XI when opening documents saved from the web, using print save to pdf.
Preview does not have that problem with same document.
Looking at the fonts it shows ...
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Preview: File-Specific Bookmarks
Is there a feature in Preview that will let me maintain a collection of file-specific bookmarks? For example, I often place bookmarks at the beginning of various chapters in books. I might decide to ...
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How to search PDFs and extract matching pages with Automator?
I am trying to make an Automator workflow that will alllow me to:
Specify a folder to run the actions on
Search all PDF files in that folder for a certain word (my client's name)
Create a new PDF ...
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Creating keyboard shortcut for converting a file (photo or document) to pdf
I'd like to set up a simple keyboard shortcut that would save the currently selected file in the finder as a pdf, assuming it is a filetype that can be converted to pdf. I've already followed this ...
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Preview in OS X 10.8 (rMBP) is very slow if many lines are embedded in the PDF
I do not have a comparison between the OS X versions but after I switched to a 15" retina MBP and simultaneously to OS X 10.8 the Preview app takes a long time to open pdfs with lots of vectors ...
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How do I switch between signatures when modifying a PDF using Preview?
I have more than one signature, however when selecting Tools -> Annotate -> Signature, only the most recent signature is inserted.
Is there an option to change the default?
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Remote Buddy & Preview - Change fade
I wrote a LaTeX presentation with beamer class that produces a nice PDF file as final output. I would like to switch between slides with my (old) Apple Remote, so I installed Remote Buddy (Remote ...
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Are there more robust tools than Automator to extract text from multiple PDF?
There is an action in Automator that allows you to programmatically "Extract PDF Text", but it fails when fed a moderate amount of files (25 to 100). Worse, it fails without logging anything helpful ...
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mac os preview: linked pdf and going back
When I click on a linked reference in a pdf it jumps to the bibliography at the end of the paper.
Is there an easy way to jump back to the passage I just read?
Thanks in advance
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Convert multiple jpeg images to pdf [duplicate]
How can I convert multiple jpeg images to pdf, without reducing quality?
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How do I export a Keynote Presentation to PDF while embedding the font
It seems like the export to PDF option currently exists on Keynote (version '09) does not embed the font I use.
What are my options besides buying Adobe Acrobat Professional?
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Print to PDF an email dropped into a Finder folder
I need to record correspondence in projects and by default store everything as PDF files. I do the same with emails - I save the attachments in the relevant project folder, then copy the actual email ...
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Searching for punctuation in Preview
In Preview (v 5.3 on 10.6.8), if I search for a single letter such as k in a pdf, the program will find and highlight every instance of that letter in the pdf.
However, if I search for a punctuation ...
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How to use a PDF in a presentation
I have to make a little keynote tomorrow, and I have all the slides saved as PDFs. I will be using a projector as a second screen to my laptop.
What's the best way to transform this long PDF document ...
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iPad app to convert multiple photos to a single pdf
Does anyone know an app to convert multiple photos from the iPad Camera Roll into a single PDF?
Alternatively, an app that lets you take photos with the iPad camera and saves them into a single PDF ...
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Preview does not save PDF form data
I downloaded the 2012 IRS 1040 form to my Mac to ~Downloads/f1040.pdf, running OS X 10.7.5. Upon opening the pdf file in Preview (Version 5.5.3 (719.31)), I see fillable form data
I proceed to fill ...
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Cut two pages by Preview at once
When scanning documents, many pages in a row have the same problem. An example where a lot of white empty space in the corner:
The application Preview allows selecting the area in a row along the ...
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Word 2011 creates a 66 MB PDF from a 1 MB Word file
I have a 1 MB Word file (text with 3 or 4 PDF graphics inside, and 1 bitmap JPEG image), which Word 2011 exports as PDF into a 66 MB file. Using the "Print > Save as PDF" feature leads to a file of ...
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Cannot export pdf highlights from Preview.app using skim in OSX10.8.3
When I 'convert to notes' in skim, only the page numbers of the highlighted text gets displayed. I can click on those page numbers and it will go to the highlighted part of the document but the actual ...
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Import PDF files from laptop to iPad without network
We can use iTunes to import PDF files to Books application of iPad. However Books application has no PDF annotation capability. I have installed other PDF viewers on iPad (like Documents by Readdle, ...
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Safari saves PDF as .pdf.jpeg because of faulty mimeType
When I try to open a PDF link by clicking on it, Safari saves it as filename.pdf.jpeg, then tries to open it in Preview, and claims that the file is broken.
I checked the requests to see what's ...
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Ordering of events when printing/pdf-ing from iCal
Spent a few hours searching on google and in other forums- I know this issue has come up before, but I couldn't find a single answer or solution anywhere.
Seems that when I go to print the calander ...
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ImageMagick - Convert multipage pdf to animated gif
I have a two-page PDF file that I would like to convert to an animated GIF file. A post on the TeX StackExchange gives the following ImageMagick one-liner:
convert -verbose -delay 50 -loop 0 ...
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What's a reasonable page size for PDFs that are likely to be read on an iPad?
I might temporarily change the page size of a colleague's Microsoft Word document, to produce a PDF – with an assumption that some users will read the PDF on an iPad or comparable device.
Page size
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Change background colour for PDF when Viewing
When a PDF is opened, its actual background color is often white. On Windows, several PDF viewers have the ability to set the background color to another one, which doesn't modify the PDF file itself. ...
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OS X: Any PDF to Kindle format converter to read technical material on Amazon Kindle?
I like to read course material on Kindle. I merge all lecture slides with Automator and then send them to my Kindle email. Earlier, I have used Readle's Documents app (a spinoff of PDF Expert) where I ...
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Open iBooks files in other PDF viewers in iPad
iBooks permits easy file sharing and import of Pdf files to iPad through iTunes, however it lacks annotation/highlighting. After import, I prefer to open PDF file with 3rd party PDF viewers like ...
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Is there any terminal tool to convert from ODT to PDF/PS?
There is unoconv for Linux.
I am looking something similar for Mac.
I think no such a program exists.
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Exporting jpg to pdf: file size grows significantly
When I used Preview's "Export" feature to export a 1.4MB jpg file to a one page pdf file, the resulting pdf is as large as 14MB, which is really surprising and annoying. I tried to reduce the file ...
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Links to bookmarks do not work when book is exported into PDF
I have few links inside of the book, which link to a bookmark inside of the book itself. It works whilst I am in iBook Author, but once exported has no effect.
Have you had similar issue and do you ...
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Unicode normalization for filenames and copied text from pdf:s
I have two issues that seem related. When copying text or filenames containing umlauts or e.g. å ä ö, OS X can't seem to handle the characters in a sane way. Apparantly this is a well-know problem, a ...
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Duplex default in Acrobat X
My MacOS and Acrobat Pro version are as follows.
Mac OS X 10.7.5
Acrobat 10.1.6
When I'm printing PDF documents, I can never set 'duplex printing' as a default setting.
I think I could do it in ...
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PDF reader for iPhone that deals well with 2 columns
When reading two column PDFs on an iPhone I generally hold the phone in portrait and zoom so that a column fills the screen. The makes the text large enough but to read straight through is a bit ...
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Automator turning well-aligned PDF documents upside-down, flipped — unreadable in OSX?
I have PDFs that are readable. When I combine the PDFs, the pages go randomly up-side-down and left-and-right. I have fixed this issue manually in Preview app but I would like to get the pages as ...
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Clean removal of Acrobat Reader
After uninstalling of Acrobat Reader from OS X 10.8.2 Safari doesn't display pdf's. I suppose that Acrobat uninstaller didn't remove plugin from Safari.
My question is how to cleanly remove Acrobat ...
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iPad PDF reader app with seamless handwritting annotation experience
I am looking for an iPad app (Android app references will also be considered useful) which allows reading PDF files and annotating them with a stylus, resembling the experience I would have with a pen ...
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Powerpoint: compress or downsample large images/graphics
I'm using Powerpoint 2011, and I'm not able to find an option to easily downsample or compress images to produce a smaller output PPTX or PPT file.
I don't need the high resolution in some of the ...
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How to batch convert word documents to pdf?
Is there a scriptable way that I can convert several MS Word documents to PDF? I thought this might be possible using python, but I am unable to find any advice online on how best to do this.
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How can I sync PDF files (and more) with my Mac and iPad?
I know the iPad has the Book Shelf thing:
I know I can add PDF files to it - but:
Is it possible to sync that with my Mac so I can also read them on the Mac?
Is it possible to have them keep the ...
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Merge PDF annotation
I send the same PDF file to different reviewers and got differently annotated versions back.
Is there a way to combine the annotations into one file?
If this is a ...
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What OSX PDF viewers support SyncTeX?
I hope this question is not a duplicate. I use a lot of pdfLaTeX in my daily work on OSX (10.8). I've been using Skim and its SyncTeX support to preview PDFs and link forward and backward and that's ...
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How can I browse my pdfs?
I have a great many directories where I've latex'd my notes on various topics, so many that I'm beginning to have trouble finding things. Is there a way to display thumbnails of all the pdfs (under a ...
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How secure are password protected PDFs that are created with Preview?
I use 1Password1 to store not only my own information, but also my sisters home Wi-Fi information.
Since she does not have a 1Password licence, I printed out the information for her to store in a ...
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Why does Google Chrome replace “fl” with blocks on all PDFs it shows, but Adobe Reader works fine?
When I open PDFs in Chrome that contain words like "files", the "fi" is replaced by a square block. Opening the same PDF in Adobe Reader or Preview works fine. Anyway to fix this?
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Merging pdfs with automator
I'm scanning my mail and end up with two versions: front & back.
Files are named: scanf 01.pdf & scanb 01.pdf
I'm scanning about 40 pages a day, so it ends up to quite some lists.
Now, with ...
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Reading App for iPad with build-in translator
Reading articles in foreign languages is a good and fast way to perfect language skills and I am sure the same thing must have occurred to others before me as well.
I am searching for iOS app for ...
