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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How can I combine PDF files and automatically create a table of contents?
I have a bunch of PDF files named, say, chapter1, chapter2, etc. I would like to combine them into a single file and create a table of contents where each file gets an entry.
If memory serves, there ...
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What tool can I use to manage notes and/or bookmarks for a collection of PDF files?
I am doing some research and I do put lots of notes and bookmarks in the books (PDF files).
I am looking for a tools that will allow me to see and search inside all these notes.
I supposed that this ...
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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 to print as PDF using Acrobat 10, when no printer is installed?
Preview or Acrobat can both print out individual pages of a PDF file, as a new PDF file containing only those pages, but I think Acrobat 10 probably can print out page 1, 10-12, and 5 -- in any order, ...
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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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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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Open .pdf's inside chrome using SKIM
The built in pdf viewer of chrome is rather nice, but I like (and more used to) skim. My ultimate goal would be to click on a pdf file and to have it opened in the tab (within chrome) using skim as ...
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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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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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How to make non-editable non-savable PDF into editable and savable?
My university provides forms such as here in non-editable and non-savable form (it also has some odd sign such as 'Print form' that I need to remove). I am able to print the document with Illustrator ...
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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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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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Is there a way Spotlight indexes my Skim bookmarks/notes ?
I find Skim is a great pdf file reader and want to spend a great deal of time adding notes and bookmarks to some of the pdf files I have.
I know Spotlight indexes pdf files but it doesn't seem to ...
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Editing of material such as PDFs in iOS for Vizualisation?
This thread is a part of the major thread about using iPad for education purposes here.
Editing is slightly ambiguous term but here it means things such as collages here, merging, annotation and such ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Browser with PDF quick-view for 10.4.11 Tiger?
Does any web browser that runs on Tiger 10.4.11 (PowerPC) have a "quick view" mode for PDF documents?
Google.com in Firefox 3.6.27 used to (that is, clicking on "quick view" next to xxx.pdf brought ...
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How to share annotations in PDFs between iPad and MacBook?
At the moment I use Dropbox to share PDFs between my MacBook and iPad. It works very well, except sharing annotations in the PDF-files. I open the PDF using Adobe Reader on my iPad and add some ...
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Is it possible to search within a PDF document using Kindle for iPad?
I am trying to use the Kindle iPad app as a storage base for all of my PDFs. But I'm disappointed that I can't seem to find a way to search the text within a PDF using the Kindle iPad App. Am I ...
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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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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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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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MS Word rendering problem with Apple products?
I created the Word 2010 file and then converted it to PDF in Windows. I recently tried to open this PDF file on my iPhone, the problem is only the cover page which iPhone renders quite horribly (there ...
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iPad PDF bookmarking across files
I'm looking for a PDF reader for iPad that will allow me to make bookmarks in multiple files and to see all of those bookmarks (across all the files) in a single list.
My specific scenario is that I ...
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whitespace printing as backticks in Libreoffice and PDF
When I print from LibreOffice (spreadsheet and wordprocessor) or from Preview using a PDF generated from a Word document or from Libreoffice, I get backticks appearing on the printout where there are ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Vim/Emacs keybinding for `Preview.app`
Does anybody have ideas about using emacs/ vim key binding for Preview.app to browser pdf files and how?
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Preview: reorder pages in pdf increased file size?
I have scanned 58 pages into a PDF. The file size of this orginal pdf was 8 MB. Unfortunately the page order was a little messed up when I scanned so I used Preview to reordered some of the pages by ...
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Error when choosing Print > PDF > Mail PDF - document mail PDF damaged or incomplete?
I'm trying to send a document to email as a PDF. To do this you'd normally go to 'Print > PDF > Email PDF' but when I do this I get an error message:
The document mail PDF could not be opened ...
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On Keynote for Mac, how can I force a size for slides when exported to PDF?
I'm trying to export my presentation as a PDF in Keynote '09 (version 5.2 (1125)) but the PDF document size doesn't match the size of my slides in Keynote (PDF pages are much larger).
Is there any ...
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Macbook Air Turbo Boost feature: can improve PDF rendering speed?
I would like to know if the Turbo Boost feature of Macbook Air (1.7 -> 2.6 Ghz) can affect tasks like PDF rendering. If yes, in which extent/way? What is the comparison to Mac Mini with fixed CPU ...
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Changing PDF page on iPad without swipe effect
When I read a PDF file on my iPad, e.g. An article, I do this in either Dropbox, iBooks, Adobe Reader or GoodReader. When I change pages in any of these apps, the page changes by a swipe: The current ...
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How do I make italics in my PDFs generated by Keynote look better?
I understand that Keynote embeds the fonts in the PDFs that it creates. I am using Arial in my template and have lots of italics. The italics looks great on a Mac but it looks horrible on a PC when ...
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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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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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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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How can I make a standalone app for one PDF book?
I've seen many books or magazines as standalone apps. You download them from the app store as one single app. When you open it, it's just like reading a book or magazine and you can turn the page and ...
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iPad/iPad2 - PDF page rendering speed
I would like to know how long (in milliseconds) does it take for the iPad/iPad2 to render a PDF page. Every page and every PDF are different, of course. I am interested in average figures if you have ...
