Questions tagged [pdf]
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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PDF in paged mode (text split into individual pages)
When viewing epub files (e.g. with Calibre), in paged mode, the text is split up into individual pages, as in a paper book.
In paged mode the number of pages per screen can be also changed, e.g. to ...
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Applescript to chop specific text out of a text file and paste it to notes file
I have created a text file from a pdf using automator. I am now trying to copy two separate slices of this file and paste them to a Notes file. Here is a sample file:
A lot of text above...............
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How to reorder highlights in Preview according to page numbers?
I read a book, while reading it, I highlighted some parts of the text. Now, in the side bar, when I choose the highlights and notes option, I see the highlights shown in random order, i.e the ...
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Unable to modify or save pdf files
When I try to fill a pdf file from the preview app it says "The original document can't be changed, a duplicate has been created". When I try to quit it asks me where I want to save the new document ...
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Apple Preview encoding #
I have a PDF file generated from a gDoc including links with jump marks. Example link:
https://digitaleneuordnung.de/blog/lean-management/#3M
Opening the generated PDF in Acrobat Reader everything ...
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Catalina now only saves pdf's from print box to preview not the folder I choose
I use Excel spreadsheets everyday and use the pdf print facility to send them to clients suppliers and for many other uses. Catalina now will not save the pdf's to any other folder than the preview ...
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Preview app on macOS High Sierra broken
I'm using Preview 10.0 on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.
When I select "highlight" to highlight text in a PDF, preview will not highlight the text but "underlines" it instead and then also grays out "...
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Print PDF Scaled Down in Top Left Corner
I have a PDF that would print something like the following by default:
__________
| ........ |
| ........ |
| ........ |
| ........ |
|__________|
If I scale down the content it remains centered.
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Viewer for pdflatex/beamer presentation with reload and without blurry transitions
When using pdflatex to create a beamer presentation and then viewing it in Preview.app (single page or fullscreen mode), page transitions are blurry: when going to the next slide, a blurry/low-...
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Convert images to PDF—in many folders, and save output PDFs to relative folders
I have more than 30,000 individual .jpg files (scanned historical documents) in about 200 directories (and subdirectories), 24G in total. Each subdirectory holds between 40 and 400 .jpg-files (meaning ...
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"Preview" will not open on my MacBook Pro
"Preview" will not open on my MacBook Pro. I am using High Sierra 10.13.6.
When I go to open a PDF or a photo, nothing happens. When I right click the Preview app it says Application Not Responding, ...
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OneNote 16.27 for iPhone won't attach pages as pdfs to Outlook 3.34.0 and gives no warning
I just sent an email out to a bunch of people with a procedure attached to it, and when I sent the email it was attached. When the people (and myself) received the email, it wasn't there!
Is this a ...
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Getting OCRmyPDF to work with PDFMiner
I'm trying to get OCRmyPDF to work on my Mac. I installed it successfully by running:
brew install ocrmypdf
But when I tried using it by running:
ocrmypdf --redo-ocr input.pdf output.pdf
I get ...
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HP LaserJet wont print OCR'ed file or Power Point file, sent from OSX
I've got an HP Colour LaserJet Pro MFP M281fdw printer.
The printer works fine for word docs, images etc and PDFs (which are not OCR'ed)
If a PDF has been created from a scanned document then OCR'...
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Lock iPad into single folder view with pdf files
I have a requirement, to have an iPad locked to a single folder view, with 1 level subfolders, each with a list of pdf files:
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├── Bob Dylan/
│ ├── file1.pdf
│ ├── file2.pdf
│ ├── file3.pdf
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How to convert .acsm to PDF on a Mac?
I just bought a book from Google Book store.
I tried to export it to PDF or epub.
Google kept exporting .acsm file for me.
I am on a Mac OS X.
I tried to download Adobe Digital Edition
Import ...
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Remove password from pdf on iOS
How would I remove the password requirement from a passworded pdf using an iOS device?
I know the password.
I want to save the pdf such as it won't require password.
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Is there a way to recover a macOS Sierra Preview behaviour in macOS Mojave about LaTeX-typed PDFs?
I type most of my documents with LaTeX.
Since I upgraded my Mac from macOS Sierra to macOS Mojave, links in the PDFs are displayed with a red box around them:
However, when I open the same PDF in ...
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Can I annotate a pdf without anyone knowing?
I had to edit something on a pdf (I added a white rectangle somewhere).
The pdf looks totally fine but if someone opens it he can see the annotations with the inspector.
I exported the pdf as a (new) ...
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Unable to highlight top of pdfs in iBooks
Highlighting text in a pdf with iBooks is quite convenient unless I am trying to highlight some text at the top of the page. The toolbar then hide what I want to highlight.
See the screenshots below ...
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Printing multiple pdf's causes printer to pause between print jobs
I'm printing thousands of PDF documents.
If I select them in the Finder and press ⌘P, it creates each PDF as a print job. However, the printer takes a huge pause - maybe 10 sec between each print job,...
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Save PDF file as a single image
I would like to create an automator that converts each page to an image, combines all the images vertically and finally saves the result as an image. I don't know how to combine the images. Could ...
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Files "can not be copied to the iPad because they can not be played on the iPad"
I have added some PDFs on iTunes:
When I tried to drag the files into the Stephen's iPad on the left nav the following message appears:
I have tried the other PDFs and all result in the same error.
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Text notes randomly enlarge in Preview pdf files
I like to edit my pdf documents and add notes (I'm studying Russian). But sometimes I'll add a note, and then open the file on a later day, and the text will have become much larger, or sometimes have ...
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Save PDF from a specific website in a specific directory
I surf in the internet with Safari. When I download a file, it is automatically saved into the default directory "Downloads".
I usually download pdfs from http://arxiv.org and https://journals.aps....
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script to get PDFpen to OCR multiple PDFs at once
I'm trying to create a simple Automator workflow to find all non-searchable PDFs then OCR them with PDFpen. I can't make much sense of the one or two other posts here (like this one), nor do I have ...
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Applescript for tagging 4GB of PDF files
I've only recently come across automation world and realized that it could help me solve one big problem.
I've roughly 4 GB of PDF files in my computer, mostly from the university, they range from ...
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Service does not appear in application menu
I created a simple service, that applies Quartz Black&Wite filter (the only block in the program) to a currently opened PDF and would like it appear in Services menu in Preview app. I have chosen ...
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Recovering the settings of Preview app from a previous installation
I made a backup of my entire drive before performing a clean install of Mac OS X.
Now, having done the fresh installation, I'm restoring the settings that my apps had on my previous installation. I'...
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Batch Change application association of found files in different places
I'd like to associate different sets of pdf files to open with different applications depending on in which path these reside. All files are typically in different places. Some exists inside bundles. ...
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PDF page manipulation, from 2 page per sheet to one page per sheet automatically
I have a PDF with following pattern:
I need to transform automatically each page of this PDF into two distinct pages, as follows:
and
So, if I had a PDF with 12 pages (2 slides for each page) I ...
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PDF not readable when copied from MacBook to USB (2.0)
I have a perfectly well PDF file on my Mac. I copy it to my 1TB USB, and it suddenly is not readable from USB; only from Mac. I can copy some other movies from Mac to USB and it reads ok from USB ...
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In Preview App (PDF) why is text entering in some fields but others it won't?
I am trying to enter text in PDFs with the Preview app. Ins some fields the text enters, no problem. In others I get the text enter box but when I type nothing happens. Why is this? I can put text ...
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I'm trying to automate some steps I perform in Pages
I use Pages to write my invoices and save a PDF version as well.
Currently, when I'm done, I press Command-S to save, Command-P to bring up the print dialog, select "Save as PDF…" from the PDF menu ...
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How do I insert LaTeXiT images in Inkscape without losing the quality of the image?
On a Mac, if one uses Inkscape, one cannot write equations directly (as far as I know). To go around this what I've done is write the equations in LaTeXiT and then import the PDF in Inkscape and then ...
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iBooks is synchronising with iPad but not with iPhone
iBooks is synchronising with iPad (mini2) but not with iPhone (5s). All devices have the same settings and updated to the last OS although with iPhone synchronisation is going only in one direction: ...
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How can I export a vanilla PDF from Acrobat Reader on Mac?
I have a fancy PDF that only opens in Acrobat Reader and I cannot figure out how to export a plain, compatible-with-everything PDF copy of it. There is no option in the print dialog and the "save as" ...
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PDF reader for Mac: stripping white background
I'm in search of a PDF reader capable of stripping the white background of a pdf page and applying a theme in place of it.
For example, I use Ibouquiniste on my iOS devices: it has the capability of ...
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Is it possible to rotate in Preview without advancing to the next page?
I have a slight annoyance with rotating pages 180 degrees in Preview. The next page is selected automatically after rotating either left or right (90 degrees). This behavior adds a step. Is there a ...
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How can I see a url link inside a PDF file opened in Safari or in Preview without open that link?
I've got a PDF file with an Image inside that has a url link to a page.
I need to see that link without opening it.
I expect to see this link when I move the mouse on the image, but I can't see it ...
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Automatic punch hole removal for scanned PDFs
Does anyone know of a tool that can automatically bulk remove punch holes from scanned PDFs? It should really do its job mostly autonomously since it will be used on a few hundred pages. It should be ...
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Change 'Open in iBooks' to something useful?
Older versions of Safari/iOS remembered the last used PDF viewer, or at least displayed my preferred one automatically e.g. at the top in the PDF preview of safari, 'Open in PDFExpert or so.
With the ...
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Can't print PDF in Safari since Yosemite
I can't print a PDF in Safari. I hit Print but nothing happens. This never happened until I downloaded Yosemite.
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Export all PDFs in directory
Is there any way to batch export PDFs, instead of going through each one and going Export as PDF? I was thinking there must be some utility I can run from terminal.
This is to basically get around an ...
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What are the NitroPDF alternatives for mac?
NitroPDF is an excellent software for various kinds of formatting, merging and splitting of PDF files but it is available only for machines running windows OS. What are good alternatives for such ...
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Mail.app attachments show as icon or document content (inline)
I get my faxes sent to me by email as a PDF file. Sometimes it shows in the email as an icon with the filename.pdf. Sometimes it shows the content of the PDF within the email (i.e., you can read it in ...
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Can scale be set when printing PDFs from mobile Safari to a Mac with Printopia?
I'm on Mavericks 10.9.1, Safari 7.0.1. There are many occasions when I need to print PDFs to my networked printer remotely (i.e., From my iPad via Printopia) and they never print in the correct scale -...
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On MacPorts, Mavericks, and generated PDF files with latex/xelatex
So, I am using MacPorts and through MacPorts I want to use texlive in order to be able to build with latex/xelatex PDF documents.
Everything seems to be working fine, apart from the fact, that ...
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PDF notes in Preview to EPUB?
I have been making PDF notes in Preview and want to transfer them to EPUB version of the book. Is it possible?
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problem searching for text with in a pdf in iBooks?
I have a very long pdf document in iBooks and it won't let me search for text in it. I click the search button, type what I want to search and nothing happens. This happens every time, no matter what ...
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