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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is it possible to spell check PDF files?
Is it possible to spell check PDF files? In Preview.app the "Edit > Spelling & Grammar > Check Document Now (⌘;)" is disabled. I'm working on a LaTeX document in Emacs and would like to use the OS ...
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PDF printing bug in OS X
On a PDF created with Office for Windows, special characters are not displaying and not printing correctly in OS X. The rendering is correct on Chrome.
The issue is the same as this one: Some PDFs ...
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View PDF on iPad from Windows 7 over WiFi
I have a home fileserver running Windows 7. I have a directory with PDF files. I want to view the PDF files on my iPad 2 over WiFi and not locally store them on the iPad. Is there any app which can ...
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How to use Automator to upload my real estate listing to web?
I want to use Automator to extract any text in a set region of a PDF, extract all images from the PDF, place all the text in corresponding fields of an Excel spreadsheet, and then upload that ...
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PDF annotations: Annotating with Preview on Mac, view annotations on iPad
My workflow is as follows:
Open PDF on Mac using Preview
Annotate PDF using the annotate tools within Preview
Send PDF to iPad
I would like the annotations to show up on the iPad in the native PDF ...
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How can I use the “signature” function in Preview on Mac Mini with no camera?
I have a Mac Mini with no attached camera. I would like to use the feature of Preview that allows you to insert a signature. This relies on taking an image of your signature using an ...
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Preview copies aliens. How to change the encoding/make it work?
Preview copies aliens! Literally. Here is a screenshot:
The text selected on the pdf was copied (Cmd+C) and pasted (Cmd+V) from Preview to TextEdit. What did I get? A bunch of aliens.
I'm guessing ...
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Is there a way to get iBooks to display the generic cover for my PDFs?
Most (all) of my PDF's I read on iBooks are actual novels or textbooks. Is there a way to force iBooks to use the generic book cover rather than the first page of the PDF document? I'm tired of trying ...
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Understand “Open in browser” vs “Open in Preview” for PDF files
When I click on a link to a PDF file, sometimes the PDF document opens in the Safari browser window, and sometimes it opens a new window and opens the PDF document in the Preview application.
Is ...
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Why is my Automator Print Plugin Only Running Every Other Time?
I have set up a simple Print Plugin in Automator. It renames the file, then moves the file to a particular directory. No matter how simple I make the plugin, it only triggers every other time I run ...
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How to fix the single page scroll option using Magic Mouse when viewing a PDF in Safari on Mountain Lion?
I don't know if this is just happening to me - I upgraded to Mountain Lion.
when I open PDF documents in Safari, I use the single page scroll option, so that with a short scroll down the Magic Mouse, ...
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Save as PDF from Word makes pixelated PDF in Acrobat but not Preview
I have a 2 year old MBP. I'm using Word 2008 and if I create a PDF using Save As... or Print > PDF, the resulting PDF will look fantastic when viewed with Preview. However, if I open the same ...
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AppleScript to tell Adobe Reader to close a certain document
Adobe Reader has N documents open. One of them has a known filepath and title and it needs to be programmatically closed. How to go about doing this in AppleScript? Specifically, how can I:
Talk to ...
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How to view a PDF at its original size?
A friend sent me a PDF with a UI mockup claiming it is 1024x768.
It is, indeed:
However, View > Actual Size (⌘0) zooms in so much that the PDF takes up almost all 1920x1200 screen estate that is ...
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How can I transfer annotations from a PDF to another in iPad?
I know there are a lot of ipad/pdf questions out there, but one of the things I don't see explicitly answered is the ability to transfer/merge pdf annotations from a pdf to an update pdf (only pages ...
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How to link one pdf to several others for use on iPad?
I want to use an iPad as an electronic 'Program' or Agenda for a conference. We would like to have a single document serve as the Agenda where one can open it, see the time and day of the ...
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Preview chrashes on certain page of pgfplots manual
Howdy its quite known among TeXies that under MacOSX the pgfplots manual brings Preview down on certain pages (with a lot of 3D content). Heres the (significant part of ) the log.
My question is: ...
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Pages to pdf export results in a smaller page size, how can I make the page size as setup in Pages?
I have a 48 by 36 inch poster in Pages. I can see size in Page Setup. The print people want the poster as a pdf so I export it to pdf.
When I open the pdf in Adobe, and look at Page Setup, it tells ...
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Toggling page views in Skim
When right-clicking on a document in skim there are two very useful options:
Single Page (good for presentations)
Single Page Continuous (suitable for reading)
Is there a way to define a shortcut ...
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Precise search inside a pdf
I wanted to search inside a PDF with Adobe Acrobat Reader for MacOS (or the one built in with MacOS). I want to search, for example, for the capital letter "U".
Is it possible and, if yes, how?
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Using Apple's IR remote to simulate a left/right mouse click or navigate presentations
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7 with an Apple IR remote. Since I create my presentations with LaTeX, which generates PDF files, I cannot use the remote to control my presentations (it only ...
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Print to PDF using Adobe READER for mac os x 10.7.4
I have the same need as this question.
Print to pdf with Adobe Reader
I have tried VipRiser and it was working very well until 10.7.4 broke it.
The CUPS-PDF is also not working well in 10.7.4
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What free software can I use to read any PDF file I want on my iPad?
I have some PDF files on my computer that I'd like to read on my iPad on the go.
What free software can I use to read any PDF file I want? I would obviously need to transfer these PDF documents ...
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PDF rendering bug in OS X and iOS
I received a PDF by e-mail which is unreadable on my Mac (Lion 10.7.3) and on my iPhone (iOS 5.1.1) but the same PDF renders perfectly on Windows. If I use Chrome on my Mac, (which has its own built ...
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Preview: Remove all annotations
Is it possible, using Preview (or maybe some other tool if not doable with Preview, but Preview preferably) to remove all annotations from a PDF file, without manually deleting every annotation?
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Reading PDFs on iPad without iTunes syncing
I am trying to read for an exam and I want to download exercises to my iPad. I have downloaded the exercises from here. I have no Mac laptop or desktop computer. I am tired of clicking every pdf ...
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Automate PDF actions
To improve my paperless workflow, I'm looking to achieve the following, potentially using automator / applescript. I need to be able to run it using Hazel, or as a folder action (not run manually):
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AdobePDFViewerNPAPI shows up in Mission Control
When I open a PDF document in Safari and then go into Mission control, I see a window with
different kinds of artifacts (e.g. horizontal black lines on a white background) and it's titled ...
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Scrolling PDF documents in Safari is too sensitive?
In Safari, I use two finger dragging with my trackpad (on a MacBook) to scroll through websites. I've noticed that whenever I try viewing a PDF document, (i.e. the URL in the address bar ends with ...
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Keeping a PDF article's bibliography always visible
While reading an article, I like to keep the bibliography pages at the tail of the article visible at the same time as I am going through the pages of the article.
Two obvious ways for doing this are
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Generating a monochrome PDF file from a color PDF file
How can I generate a monochrome pdf file from a color pdf file?
I have tried ImageMagick's convert, but with bad results.
A direct conversion
convert -monochrome file.pdf file-bw.pdf
produces ...
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What tool is best for removing pages from a PDF?
I have a set of PDF documents that each have a few extra pages. I'd like to remove the first two and last pages from each of them. Preview only lets me look at and annotate a PDF, not edit one. Can ...
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Dragging cropped .pdf file to Mac Powerpoint 2011 - Result is completely different area of original!
I am trying to copy/drag a .pdf file into a powerpoint presentation for Mac PPT 2011.
I do the following:
1. Select and copy the top right corner of the original .pdf page
2. Save this 'corner' as ...
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How do I print a selected email to PDF using Automator?
I can't for the life of me figure out how to print a selected email to PDF using Automator.
Example - iTunes invoice arrives as email text (not an attachment) and I want to save it as a PDF to a ...
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How can I remove a PDF in iTunes?
There are several PDF files which I imported into iTunes to read using iBooks.
However, I cannot manage to remove them. By default, iTunes handles the its media library automatically. The PDFs and ...
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Is there a PDF reader that formats for mobile screens?
Trying to read PDF on a mobile screen is a pain, be it iBooks or Adobe Reader. Neither of the apps properly format the content for reading on the iPhone. I was wondering if there is a "Reader" ...
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Exporting PDF with table of contents hyperlinks in Microsoft Word 2011?
When I save a document in Word 2011 to PDF, the hyperlinks in the documents' table of contents and other cross-reference links aren't clickable. That is in the PDF document when I click on a table of ...
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How can I archive articles I'm reading on my iPad? (Evernote, Instapaper, etc)
I read a number of magazines and newspapers daily on my iPad, using a number of different apps. I generally start out in Flipboard, then read the New York Times using the dedicated app in Newsstand, ...
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Select font when converting .txt to .pdf from command line
I often need to convert text files to PDF from the command line. I currently use enscript, a2pdf, cupsfilter, etc. The feature I'm missing is the ability to use an OS X font instead of one of the ...
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Can I configure the auto duplex feature of my Canon Pixma printer on Mac OS X?
I am trying to configure a printer (Canon Pixma mg3150) to my mac... everything looks fine, I can print a page of 1 side. The specification of the printer shows auto duplex print, but the Two Sided is ...
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Adobe Reader Updater legitimate?
I just got the following popup:
Is this a legitimate update from Adobe?
The reason I'm concerned:
The Flashback virus started off as a fake Adobe Flash update.
The UI on the application does not ...
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On iPad's iBooks, how to make highlighting show up for PDF files?
It seems that on iPad, iBooks, Kindle, or Kobo won't show any user highlightings?
For example, just go to ...
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Why won't iTunes let me manually sync PDFs to iBooks?
I have my iPad set to manually manage content (i.e. drag and drop, not sync). I'm trying to add some PDFs to iBooks, but it refuses to let me copy them to my iPad. I can do this with epub books just ...
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How can I export PDFs from a PC to a new iPad?
I want to load some of the PDFs I bought from the internet to my iPad from my PC (Windows 7). How can I do this?
Sorry, but I've never bothered with tablets before, but somehow I got the new iPad. I ...
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Preview zooms view when moving document from laptop screen to external monitor
In Preview, when I drag a PDF document from my laptop screen to an external monitor, Preview zooms in the view by a large amount--enough that I have to click the "minus" button a couple of times to ...
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What's the best way to place 4 pictures on a A4 sheet using the mac?
What's the best way to place 4 pictures on a A4 sheet using the mac ? (or iPad / iPhone) ?
I need to create a pdf.
iPhoto seems not to have such functionality.
I would like to know if there is an ...
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Automator PDF text to Spoken Audio file: What's wrong with this script?
I have pages of PDF notes which I want converted to spoken audio to aid revision.
There are several suggested workflows online, but I'm still not getting the results I want.
I used this model from ...
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iPhone save PDF file and view it
I have a PDF file on my Mac and I want to copy it into my iPhone and then read it.
How can I do that?
I already tried to plug the iPhone cable into my Mac, but it seems Finder doesn't let me save a ...
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Which iPad PDF viewers (annotators, readers, whatevers) give a faithful rendering?
I got a bit of a surprise when viewing a PDF today. I'd originally looked at it on my iPad in Safari. Then I looked at it later on my Linux machine using xpdf. It looked ... different. Here are ...
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OSX Preview: is able to display DRM protected PDF files? (mainly concerned about Adobe DRM)
I would like to know if the Preview application (last release) is able to open PDF files that are DRM protected, for example by Adobe DRM system.
