How to get display to show a pdf properly When I do: display file.pdf it shows this: I can’t resize the little window that it adds but I can remove it by clicking on the x. I can also remove the checkerboard effect that comes from assuming transparency, I think, with: display -alpha opaque file.pdf …
In which way can I transorm pdf file in ms word doc 97 format? under kubuntu 22.04 I have a pdf file and I need to make a ms word doc 97 file to edit it under both Libre Office Writer and ms word doc 97. If I open this file from Libre Office Writer …
xdg-open preferes opening pdf files with libreoffice rather than Document viewer since I removed Adobe? I removed Adobe from my Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS and, since then, xdg-open file.pdf opens the file with libreoffice rather than Document viewer. Purging libreoffice completely solves the problem, however it persists if I re-install it. I could live like this, …
Okular breaking /home directories links I have an Ubuntu 20.04 version and I had recently installed Okular for manage and editing .pdf files. Since I installed and ran this program the /home/Music /home/Videos /home/Public and /home/Templates directories links were broken (see Image). When I try to enter one of these directories this message appears: "The …
evince opens pdf in "presentation mode" when opening a particular pdf file, evince decides to open it in "presentation mode". I see in the man page that evince has -s option to open in presentation mode, but I did not invoke it. I am simply opening all pdfs as evince file.pdf Somehow evince has decided …
How to sync PDF reading progress in Okular between several computers? I have several computers where my books and documents are stored in identical file structure. I sync these books with Dropbox (at most the parent folder where Dropbox is located is different, but I can try to make its name the same, if necessary). …
How to stop LibreOffice Draw from converting barcodes to numbers when opening a PDF file? I am using LibreOffice Draw to edit a PDF document which has a barcode printed in it. Draw decodes the barcode and replaces it with numbers as soon as I open the document. The decoded text is of 3of9Barcode font …
Split and rotate multiple-pages PDF I have a multiple-pages PDF which I would like to split (each page being split in 2 or 3 pages) and rotated. My aim is to be able to print a scaled version of my PDF. I tried this pdftk input.pdf cat 1-endeast output output.pdf But it only do a …
Bash can't read glob pattern I’m trying to make my CV build script run on Ubuntu. I usually use Fedora to build it. Each page is written in SVG, I use Inkscape to generate PDF and then pdfmerge to join those pages into one. On Ubuntu I can’t find pdfmerge so I wanted to change …
How to redefine font substitution? I would like to have HelveticaLTStd-Bold substituted with LiberationSans-Bold font. It is already installed in many places: but DejaVu Sans is chosen instead: paul@desktop:~$ fc-match "HelveticaLTStd-Bold" DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" I followed the advice from PDF font falls back to DejaVu Sans, need a monospace replacement, but it didn’t work. …
Is there something that crops or resizes the pdf page by its TrimBox? I am developing an application that makes pdf files, but I am adding the trimbox values to the pdf pages with a different way, hence I need debug my pdf file to check trimbox values that I set with my way, working …
How to find a file and copy its directory without copying the other files in that same directory? I have a lot of different folders with pdf files and other extensions. I want to copy all the pdf files to another destination. But if I do that with find like this: "${SEARCHDIR}" -iname "*.pdf" | …
Correcting typo in PDF, other solutions aren't working I have a job interview on Tuesday, and I need to correct a typo "obestiy" [sic] to "obesity" in a PDF from LaTeX that I cannot recompile due to missing images and tables. I have tried qpdf general.audience.pdf –object-streams=disable expanded.pdf, as suggested by How to view and …
Thunderbird unable to save file to PDF in gnome google drive I am having a weird issue, whereby if I want to save an email through print to PDF from Thunderbird to the Gnome managed google drive mounted drive it doesn´t work. It simply returns back to the print preview screen without any action being …
Prevent PDF form modification I am likely misunderstanding the concept here, but my case is this: I have a received a PDF with editable fields / form that I have filled. I want to lock it so that it can’t be changed, but still read. I use qpdf Encryption feature Have tried various things like: …
Stripping a pptx presentation from videos in LibreOffice Impress I have a .pptx presentation I am editing in LibreOffice Impress. The presentation contains videos. This works fine, but the size of the presentation is quite large because of the videos (177M), which makes it difficult to share and send around. I exported it to pdf, …
Escape %d for pdfseparate in a thunar custom action I want to create a thunar custom action that lets me right-click a PDF and then select "split PDF" to split it into individual pages. The command to do this is: $ pdfseparate mypdf.pdf mypdf-%d.pdf Which will create a new PDF for each page, called mypdf-1.pdf, …
How do I remove password from a PDF using ghostscript, when password is known? I have an encrypted pdf, and I am aware of the password, and I would like to use the Ghostscript to make them unencrypted, so they don’t require any password to be opened. I tried using the following, But it seems …
Some pdf pages are blank in Okular Short story: some programs, including Okular, display blank some of the pages in a specific (1000+ pages) pdf, but other programs, including some internet browsers, display all pages without blanks. After extracting all pages as pdf, the same happens for the same problematic pages. I have uploaded one …
png images to single pdf I have Version: ImageMagick 6.9.10-23 Q16 x86_64 20190101 on Ubuntu 20.04. I tried convert *.png out.pdf to convert 70 png files into a pdf, but strangely always only 18 pages in the pdf file. I didn’t find any info from the help doc. I also tried img2pdf but it support …
