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Tag Archives: PDF
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
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
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
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
Link Trouble With Adobe Reader
Spaces in filenames for files on your web server are a bad idea… No question about that, but sometimes you don’t have control over the files you want to link to. So let’s assume you create a PDF file that … Continue reading
Installing PDFtk on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
One of my favorite PDF related tools is PDFtk. Some time ago I complained that it was no longer supported, but it seems that development has picked up again, and you can now find a brand new version – one … Continue reading
Prevent the Save Dialog when Printing to the Adobe PDF Printer
[ UPDATE: For use on a 64bit system, see Kevin Rappold’s comment below. ] This is from the category “Frequently Asked Questions” – this time how to programmatically specify an output filename when printing to the Adobe PDF printer. As … Continue reading
Posted in Acrobat, PDF, Programming
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, Distiller, PDF, Programming, scripting, VBS
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The Trouble With the XREF Table
Have you ever tried to debug a problem with the XREF table in a PDF file? I’ve been debugging PDF problems for a long time, and every now and then I come across a file that has a corrupt XREF … Continue reading
Validating Field Contents
One of the questions I get asked again and again is how to validate a field value in an AcroForm with a custom validation script. Adobe provided a lot of infrastructure to do that with just a simple script. Let’s … Continue reading