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Author Archives: Karl Heinz Kremer
Who is Hogging My File?
After working on your PDF file for a while, you are ready to save it back to the disk, but Acrobat greets you with an error message: “The document could not be saved. The file may be read-only, or another … Continue reading
Duplicate a Page in Adobe Acrobat
Here is a little secret: It is very easy to duplicate a page in Adobe Acrobat and most Acrobat users don’t know about this trick. Open up Acrobat and display the Page Thumbnails pane: Before we talk about how to … Continue reading
Escape from Uninstaller Hell
Disclaimer: This article demonstrates how to edit the Windows Registry. This is a dangerous thing to do. If you do not feel comfortable doing these kinds of system changes, please don’t proceed. If you do proceed, you are doing so … Continue reading
Paddle Mini PDF Bundle – Cheap, but is it worth your money?
We all like a bargain, and PDF software is usually not cheap, so when a nice discount comes along, it’s worth to take a look. Paddle, the bundler of Mac applications and design resources has a PDF mini bundle for … Continue reading
No Signature Requred – The Mac Edition…
I’ve written about a solution for suppress the green “Signature field(s) detected” bar for Windows before. Adobe finally released some information about how to get rid of this bar on the Mac too: Disable EchoSign Detection This article shows how … Continue reading
Convert Documents to Grayscale in an Acrobat Action
Let’s assume you have a color document that needs to be converted to grayscale. The reason for this can be that it’s cheaper to print a grayscale than a full color document, or OCR results may be better when working … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, PDF
Tagged Action, Adobe Acrobat, Color Conversion, Color Management, Grayscale
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Preview.app – Killer of PDF Files
How do you feel about an application saving changes to your files without you knowing? How about if that application is not just saving harmless changes, but in the process of doing so also rewrites the file and removes important … Continue reading
No Signature Required!
Update: Adobe released information about how to hide the green bar on the Mac as well, see this post for more information: http://khkonsulting.com/2013/07/no-signature-requred-the-mac-edition/ Adobe released the 11.0.3 update for Acrobat and Reader a few days ago, and ever since the complaints … Continue reading
The Trouble with Updates – Adobe Acrobat Updater Security Error
Have you seen this “Adobe Acrobat Updater” security error on your Mac running Mountain Lion?
Posted in Acrobat, Apple, mac, PDF
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, adobe acrobat updater, mac os x, Mountain Lion, PDF, security dialog, unidentified developer
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End of Life for Adobe Acrobat 9 Approaching Fast!
This is not really “news” – Adobe announced this in June last year – but in case you’ve missed this so far, here is a reminder: Adobe is ending support for Acrobat 9 and Reader 9 on June 26th, 2013. This … Continue reading