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Activate comments in PDF
You can use Ghostscript to add annotations to a PDF file. Is that free enough for you? Try something like this:
gs \
-o commented-output.pdf \
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-c "[ /Rect [ 75 400 175 5 …
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Adobe Acrobat - How To Print Shaded Areas
My wild guess is that you have some weird setting activated in your print dialog that you should change....
Click "Print".
After the print dialog opens, first select your target printer.
Now click …
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Export Specific Page of a PDF to TIFF
Use Ghostscript. It gives you a lot of controls over various aspects of your TIFF output. Here are a few commandline examples:
gswin32c.exe ^
-o mytiffpage.tif ^
-sDEVICE=tiffg4 ^
-dFirstPage=1 …
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XPS viewer for linux?
As part of the Ghostscript-related suite of GhostPDL page description languages, there is the commandline gxps which can...
...make XPS files display on screen: gxps file.xps,
...convert XPS files …
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Explaining Git to someone new to revision control
Search the Internet for a Blog essay called "The Git Parable". It captures and explains the core ideas of Git's architecture and inner workings in the most comprehensive way.
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Google Mini Search Optimization for PDFs
Not sure if this answer helps you. But here it goes:
Acrobat Pro as well as Acrobat Reader (even on Linux) do offer some "PDF open commandline parameters". These control how exactly the document is o …
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PDF has an extra blank in all words after running through Ghostscript
In order to check wether this problem is connected to the 'embedded-ness' of the font or not, I've made another conversion, on Linux. I used this commandline in order to have Ghostscript embed the fon …
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Extracting background images from a PDF file?
Take the PDF which was made by Craig H and optimize it a bit by running it through Ghostscript. On Windows the commandline is:
gswin32c.exe ^
-o p1test-gs-optimized.pdf ^
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite ^
…
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Border does not print from PDF
One potential cause for this is that your Business Inkjet 5800 just lacks the physical capability to print on areas which are very close to the media border. Maybe it can be set to print with more nar …
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Embed an Excel spreadsheet inside a PDF?
The Free (as in liberty) and free (as in beer) commandline utility pdftk is available for all major OS platforms (Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X). It has a sub-command to embed external files into a P …
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How to fix missing equations in Word 2007 when printing/converting to PDF?
Looking at the Metadata of your files it seems that...
... the .docx files were created with MS Office 2007 (or later)
... the .pdf files were created with Adobe Acrobat Distiller 8.0.0
AFAIR, Ac …
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Check which font types are used in a particular PDF page
My recommendation is to start with the pdffonts utility. (Later you could move to a more advanced tool, like tet from pdflib.com should the first step not suffice for you).
pdffonts is a commandline …
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Reading a PDF file for testing in GhostScript?
If you use Ghostscript on Windows, you'll have two executables:
gswin32c.exe
gswin32.exe
The first one is to be run from inside a 'DOS box' (i.e. cmd.exe window) -- either interactively or not. It …
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Is it possible that a file size increases “by itself” during printing?
On Windows, what data (format) goes to the printer almost never is the same as the document format you create and edit or receive from someone.
(An exception may be an XPS document viewed in an XPS vi …
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How can I programmatically change/protect text contents in a PDF so it's no longer copyable ...
I suppose that your goal is to make it more difficult to select and copy text from a PDF. Because that is the only achievable goal you can put up. (If there is a way to see the PDF pages on screen, th …
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